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CSA VIDEO: Ever wonder what it's like to belong to a CSA farm? Check out this new three-minute video by Larry Schmidt and Katy Podolinsky: Community Supported Agriculture: What to expect when you join a farm. What
is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)? The farms listed in this directory have paid a fee to the Land Stewardship Project to be included. The Land Stewardship Project is not a certification agency for Community Supported Agriculture farms and does not guarantee customer satisfaction. Please keep in mind that while membership in a CSA farm means sharing in the bounty of the season, it also means sharing in the risks. At times, raising food in the Upper Midwest can be made quite challenging by inclement weather, pest infestations and other factors beyond the farmers’ control. We encourage you to contact the farms directly and ask questions to determine what best fits with your needs, lifestyle and schedule. We recommend reading the “Selecting a CSA Farm” and “Questions to Ask a CSA Farmer” guides on pages 2 and 3 before beginning your search for a CSA operation that fits you best. Good luck as you take that first step into an exciting sector of our food system! Selecting
a CSA
*Ideas and wording used for this list taken from MACSAC, the Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition. Questions to Ask a CSA Farmer Below are a few questions that should be asked of any farmer you are considering entering into a CSA relationship with. Potential CSA members should not be shy about asking such questions — and a good CSA farmer should be forthcoming with answers. After all, this is about creating a trusting relationship built on good food, good stewardship and good friendships.
A Quick CSA Guide To purchase a share of fresh food for the season, contact any of the following farms directly. Click on a link for more information about that farm.
Farms That Deliver to Outstate Minn. & Western Wis.
Farms That Deliver to the Twin Cities Amador Hill Farm & Orchard at the Women’s Environmental Institute WEI provides a weekly delivery of certified organic produce to our members for 18 weeks. Each box contains an array of seasonal vegetables, herbs and sometimes fruit. A farm newsletter with recipe ideas is included in each week’s box. Our autumn season boxes (late September and October) will contain a variety of delicious certified organic apples from our orchard. Our delivery day is Friday (beginning mid-June) in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area, as well as in Forest Lake, White Bear Lake, Coon Rapids, Cambridge and North Branch. Home deliveries are available if the drop includes at least six boxes. Please call us for more information about this option. This year, CSA members will also enjoy the opportunity to add more value-added products (e.g., fresh-milled flour, artisan organic bread and cookies, etc.) to their box through the WEI online ordering page at our website and/or by contacting us via phone or e-mail. Avodah Farm Avodah is a Hebrew word with a meaning that encompasses labor, worship and service. This is what farming is to us: meaningful, fulfilling work through which we serve our Creator and our community. We see this work as a way to live out the Jewish principle of Tikkun Olam — Repairing the World — by rebuilding our topsoil, our local economy and the connections between rural and urban areas. Avodah Farm members will enjoy a bountiful box of garden-fresh goodness every Wednesday from early June through late October. We deliver to Eagan, Mendota Heights and the Mississippi Market in Saint Paul. Throughout the season, our ¾ bushel box will usually include onions, garlic, some sort of cooking green, and a root vegetable or two. These staples will be joined by all the familiar favorites (lettuce, broccoli, green beans, potatoes, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, sweet peppers, winter squash and many more) as they come into season. We challenge ourselves to provide a rich variety in your diet and you can look forward to something new in the box almost every week. Members are also invited out to the farm for a summer workday and our fall harvest festival. Axdahl’s Garden Farm & Greenhouse Twenty weekly shares will begin in June with fresh herbs and lettuces and other greenhouse/high tunnel grown produce. Summer veggies include snap peas, sweet corn, green and wax beans, zucchini and yellow squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, potatoes, onions and more. Fall brings pumpkins, winter squash, brussels sprouts and more. Weekly drop-offs will be available at our garden center in Stillwater, at the River Market Co-op in Stillwater, Bread Art in Bayport, Great Harvest Bread Company in Woodbury, Lake Elmo Inn, Fresh and Natural Foods in Hudson and at select centralized locations in the Twin Cities for groups of 20 members or more by request. For our CSA members, we will provide a membership card which offers a 15 percent discount for full share members and a 10 percent discount for half share members on any regular priced product that we have at our garden farm April through December. Big
River Farms Our 18-week season runs mid-June through mid-October. Your membership gets you a weekly box of the season’s finest, delivered to neighborhood sites across the greater metro area. The veggies we pack into your box each week will vary with the rhythms of the growing season. This means that in the early boxes you might see snap peas, broccoli, scallions and greens (among others). The heat of the summer will bring along garden favorites like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, potatoes, summer squash and more. As we wind into fall, look for different varieties of winter squash, lots of roots and greens. We also participate in a program called Harvest for the Hungry, which works with regional farms to get fresh produce into local food pantries. Donations are matched 100 percent, and the money is used to purchase food from our farmers-in-training for the food pantries. Donations to either MFA or Harvest for the Hungry can always be added onto share prices. Please call or visit www.mnfoodassociation.org for more on farm tours, CSA share details/sign-up, and MFA workshops/events. Big Woods Farm A full share includes 18 weekly distributions (8-30 pounds, depending on time of the season) of produce, available beginning in mid-June, at four locations: at the farm on Mondays, at Just Food Co-op in Northfield on Mondays or Thursdays, at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville on Thursdays and in South Minneapolis near Lake Nokomis on Thursdays. Two festivals are held each season: a height-of-the-summer garlic and vegetable cookout, and a fall pumpkin and winter squash harvest potluck. At the latter, members help pick the squash and pumpkins, and take home a cache for the winter plus jack-o-lanterns for the doorstep. Members are welcome to visit the farm most anytime to work up a sweat in the garden or to simply wander about, enjoying the countryside. The chance to pick-your-own flowers, cherry tomatoes, basil and green beans, available as the summer progresses, is included with your share. Bistro Farm In addition to your share box, our drop-sites are full of self-serve baskets of fresh herbs and salad greens. Special deliveries in-season may include fresh flowers, a week of the finest sweet corn and the fall harvest box. Located in beautiful Clear Lake, Wis., our small farm is run by the passion and hard work of our friends and family. We practice all-natural, sustainable farming, nurturing our relationship with the land. We strive to build a relationship with our members and encourage them to visit us anytime. Deliveries begin in June and run every Thursday for approximately 14 weeks. We serve the Uptown Minneapolis and St. Paul areas with easily accessible and centrally located drop sites. Please visit us at www.thebistrofarm.com for more information. Blackberry
Community Farm Tuesday pick-up sites: 1) Proechel’s, 782 Holly Ave., St. Paul; 2) Patagonia, 1648 Grand Ave., St. Paul; 3) Seward Co-op, 2823 East Franklin, Minneapolis; 4) Eastside Co-op, 2551 Central Ave. NE, Minneapolis; 5) Ecopolitan, 2409 Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis; 6) Lucia’s Restaurant, 1432 West 31st St., Minneapolis. There will be three Friday pick-up sites: 1) Farm; 2) Menomonie Market Food Co-op - Wis; 3) Eau Claire, Wis, — TBA. Members are welcome to visit or volunteer, and there will be a summer and fall festival. We invite you to join us for our 17th season and experience the beauty and abundance of the land. • Apprenticeship Opportunities • Bossy Acres For the 2012 season, Bossy Acres’ rented farmland is nestled among gorgeous trees, a beautiful lake, beneficial wetlands and native grasses. We’re a convenient 35-mile drive northwest of the Twin Cities in the small rural town of Dayton, Minn. We also have a small urban test lot in South Minneapolis as well as greenhouse space in St. Paul as part of the Grow! Twin Cities grower’s co-op. Our mission is to be good stewards of our land by embracing and utilizing organic and permaculture-based farming practices. We believe strongly in community — in getting involved — and in bringing people together through the power of good, real food. We offer a unique CSA opportunity for our members with the options of weekly or bi-weekly deliveries as well as variety options like our “Basics” share and “Booyah” share to best fit and appeal to different levels of cooking interests, tastes and preferences. In addition to the produce from our farm, CSA members have the option of taking advantage of add-on goods through our partners: Moonshine Coffee/Blue Ox Coffee Company and The Beez Kneez Bicycle Delivered Honey. We have six convenient pick-up locations in and around the Twin Cities. We invite you to learn more at www.bossyacres.com, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter! There you’ll find information about our restaurant, co-op/grocer and market partners. Burning
River Farm We have 200+ memberships available for the 2012 season, which runs 18 weeks from early June until mid-October. Deliveries are made every Thursday to a drop-site or directly to your home or work in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas. We have two box sizes. The 3/4 bushel family share is ideal for two veggie-loving adults or a family of four, and the 5/9 single share is ideal for one to three people. We will also have a 1/3 bushel “Salad Share.” Deliveries include a farm newsletter with stories from the field, a rundown of the week’s offerings and recipes for the week’s produce. Please contact the farm for further info on share options, complete list of what will be growing and to see if you are within the delivery area. You can also find us every Saturday at the Mill City Farmers’ Market. Everything is grown naturally without harmful chemicals. We had a great season last year. Please join us for another! • Employment Opportunities •
At Celestial Harvest, we grow produce with utmost care for the land. We use only natural methods to grow over 40 varieties of herbs, fruits and vegetables. We are committed to grow exceptionally tasty and nutritious produce. We use no pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers or genetically modified organisms. The first box arrives in mid- to late-June, and the season lasts until a week after the killing frost in the fall. Choose a half share — 1/2 bushel (for two) — or a full share — 3/4 bushel (feeds four). Each share includes what is in-season for that particular week. The overall share includes vegetables, herbs, apples and melons. We also offer payment plans. Over the course of the season, you will end up paying wholesale prices. Pick-up sites are in Minneapolis (multiple sites), Golden Valley, Edina and the farm in Prior Lake (7052 Casey Parkway). Limited delivery for 10 or more orders within the Twin Cities. We also sell to co-ops and a limited number of restaurants.
We grow 40+ different vegetables and herbs with an emphasis on the traditional favorites of green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, onions and carrots. We typically deliver for a 19- to 20-week season, beginning the middle of June and ending in October. In addition to our regular vegetable share, we offer a fruit share and an extended season share with deliveries in November and December. We have drop-sites in 14 Twin Cities locations, including Minnetonka, St. Louis Park, Golden Valley, South Minneapolis, the Seward and Longfellow Neighborhoods, and the Merriam Park and St. Anthony Neighborhoods of St. Paul. We have a fall festival each year. Our members are welcome to visit the farm at any time. Our members often tell us that the simple act of eating locally is something that gives them hope in these uncertain economic times. Consider joining us in eating well from the goodness and bounty of the earth. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
The 2012 CSA will begin Thursday, June 14, and run through Thursday, August 30 (11 weeks – no pick-up 4th of July week). Produce pick-ups will be from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. on Thursdays at our office in East St. Paul. Each week members receive a bag with fresh veggies, herbs, a bouquet, a newsletter with intern news and recipes, and a sample of the recipes from the newsletter. Some of the veggies we grow include heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, salad mixes, edamame, broccoli, zucchini, leeks, beets, heirloom garlic and much much more! In September we offer a Fall Harvest Box CSA. The 15+ pound bushel boxes will be offered September 13 and 22. For more information or to sign up contact Jamie Bain, Garden Program Manager, at 651-228-7073 or jbain@comdesignctrmn.org.
Several options are available. Twenty weekly boxes are delivered from June-October. Boxes come in two sizes: “family” or “couple.” Winter shares are also available (4 deliveries every-other-week, November-December) with two options, Basic Vegetables or Great Eating (vegetables plus pickles, jams, fresh bread and cookies). We also have a gluten-free bread and cookie option and a fresh bread and cookie option that can be delivered along with your summer vegetable box. Everything is grown and made on the farm. Additional items can be purchased online weekly and added to your weekly standard vegetable box including: flower bouquets, fruits, jams, eggs, beef, pork, bread, cookies, dairy-free baked goods, cards and coffee. Deliveries are made to 9 sites in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Maplewood, Shoreview, Stillwater, Somerset and Osceola. No work or driving required. Visitors, families, groups and classes are very welcome to our organic dairy farm, gardens and community! Several festive events are planned throughout the year. Community Homestead is a lively community of about 40 people. Families live together with adults with developmental challenges. Rhythm, reliability and self-esteem are stressed in all our activities. There is an important place for everyone. All members are volunteers, receiving room and board and sharing a healthy lifestyle. Seasonal or long-term volunteers accepted. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Country Taste Farm Country Taste Farm has adopted and uses IPM practices (Integrated Pest Management) on our farm. Our pest management plan has been developed from information that has been provided by The Minnesota Department of Agriculture. Organic insecticides are used in the production of our vegetables. Farm Pickup Tuesday 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. We deliver to:
Some of the fruits and vegetables we provide include: apples, asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, cucumbers, green and yellow beans, garlic, herbs, lettuce, melons, onions, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, parsnips, radishes, rutabagas, salad mix, strawberry, sweet corn, squash, tomatoes and zucchini. Crazy Boy Farm We are in a sustainable transition as we grow heirloom vegetables for our CSA market. We are working to continually expand our offerings to meet our customers’ needs. Our season begins in late June and runs for 16 weeks until mid-October. Each week we provide you with a box of only the freshest, in-season produce. We try to vary the offerings weekly and include items you are familiar with, as well as interesting and exciting heirloom varieties, including items from the Slow Food USA “Ark of Taste” and Asian vegetables. Boxes vary by season. Mondays are delivery days. We offer on-farm pick-up (53100 Fairfield Ave., Rush City, MN 55069), the Eastside of St. Paul (35E and Maryland), and other drop-sites upon request. We offer full-time, part-time (full boxes every-other-week) and peak season (mid-July to mid-September) shares.
The members of our CSA program every week receive a share of fresh, in-season produce grown without the use of pesticides or herbicides delivered to a convenient location. We are located northwest of the Twin Cities with delivery points in Albertville, Blaine, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Elk River, Maple Grove, Plymouth, Ramsey and St. Michael, along with pick-up at the farm in Big Lake. Our season runs over 18 weeks, starting in June and ending in October. Please visit our website at www.culinarydelightsfarm.com for membership information.
Join us, from the beginning of June until the middle of October, for a CSA season you are sure to never forget. Our boxes are chock-full of those vegetable goodies that you just can’t get enough of, such as sweet corn, tomatoes, sweet peas and broccoli. (Plus much, much more!) This year we are excited to offer organic sunflower oil shares, organic grass-fed beef packs and two vegetable storage boxes in time for the holiday season. All of this, plus a newsletter with recipes and stories from the farm, and a fall harvest party to boot; does it get any better than that? Starting in June, we offer every-week shares (20 boxes) or every-other-week shares (10 boxes) and we are excited to offer SIX pick-up sites in the Twin Cities area: 2 in St. Paul (Hamline University Area AND 1700 block of Portland Ave. — Thursday p.m.), Eagan (Yankee Place — Blue Cross/Blue Shield employees only — Thursday p.m.), Linden Hills neighborhood (Washburn Ave. — Thursday p.m.), Downtown Minneapolis (110 N. 5th St. — Thursday p.m.), and The Eastside Co-op (Friday all day). For more information and pricing, please check out our website at www.driftlessorganics.com. Our shares fill up fast, so order yours today!
For the 2012 season, we offer 150 memberships in the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Rochester areas. Grapes and sweet potatoes will be new crops in the boxes this year. A limited number of egg shares are also available. Our chickens are pastured and naturally fed. Our season runs from mid-June through October with deliveries on Thursdays. We offer some individual home deliveries and also have host family drop-sites. We encourage members to visit the farm: work in the fields, walk the woods or relax by the stream. We gather in the fall to celebrate the harvest, our lives and our relationships. Please contact us with any questions or to schedule a visit. We are Norm Gross, Laurie Nelsen, Noah Nelsen-Gross (18) and Adriana Nelsen-Gross (14). We are excited about offering the freshest, tastiest and cleanest produce that we can. Although we are not certified, we would never consider using any methods that were not organic. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
Our farm has been in Josh’s family for four generations. It was a working dairy farm until the 1980s, and we’re working hard to revitalize the farm and raise a family by growing vegetables and livestock sustainably. We have a passion for building restoration and re-use, and many of our farm buildings have been moved in or re-built from salvaged materials. Our farm is 40 acres, including wooded ravines, pasture, fields and the farm-site. We have a deep appreciation for the natural world and ecology, which is why we have chosen to be certified organic. The soil is alive, and it is our responsibility to maintain that life, ultimately helping us grow nutritious and healthy crops. Pick-up sites are in Minneapolis, the St. Peter Food Co-op and at the farm. Please visit our website for more details and online sign-up.
Full and half shares are available, both delivered weekly. Deliveries start in mid-June and continue for 18 weeks. Delivery sites include Fresh and Natural Foods, Hudson; River Market Co-op, Stillwater; Hampden Park Co-op, St. Paul; Menomonie Market Food Co-op, Menomonie; and Blaine for Aveda employees. Each share includes 30 to 40 varieties of vegetables, a small selection of herbs and Eener’s ultra-hip weekly newsletter, “The Spinning Turnip.” Eener and Cass grow the classic favorites, plus a few oddities. Full share members sporadically receive Eener’s free range chicken eggs and berries. Check the website for more information. If you’re itchin’ to get started with some local food right away, we offer several types of 100 percent grass-fed meat and other random products from our farm year-round, which are home-delivered to many areas in the metro. Members are not required to work on the farm. They are welcome to visit and encouraged to attend the Big Fall Harvest Party Fest held at the farm in October. The Fest involves a bonfire, food, farm tours, hayrides, pumpkins and wildlife fun. The Farm of Minnesota The boxes are delivered to their designated pick-up locations, near you, on Tuesdays. We have multiple pick-up locations in western Minneapolis. We believe in sustainable farming and work to provide nutritionally dense food. We are a transitional farm and should have the entire farm certified organic in a few years. Season extension is a growing part of what we do. In the future we will have shares available for each month of the year. Come join the fun and enjoyment of weekly fresh food. Our signature crop is strawberries. We have many other fruits like raspberries too. Our farm is located west of the cities near the town of Hutchinson. Please visit our website at www.thefarmofmn.com to get complete details. You may find our FAQ’s page most helpful. Thank you for your interest in our CSA. We have many pick-up locations and can create a pick-up site at your work if enough people there join our CSA family. Fazenda Boa Terra We firmly believe that access to fresh, real food is a human right. With that in mind, we offer generous financial assistance with flexible pricing and payment options helping everyone put the highest quality, nourishing food on your table at each meal. For more information, please visit us online and learn all about who we are, what we do and how we do it. We hope you will join us for 20 weekly festivals of food, June through October.
Featherstone Fruits &
Vegetables We offer an array of more than 70 produce varieties, including asparagus, leaf lettuce, salad mix, heirloom tomatoes, broccoli, onions, garlic, peppers, carrots, peas, beans, potatoes, sweet corn, strawberries, raspberries, cantaloupes and watermelons. We round out the boxes with a selection of herbs throughout the season, including basil, dill and rosemary. Shareholders stay connected to the farm and get cooking tips in a variety of ways, including: a weekly newsletter during the season, our blog, Facebook and Twitter feed. Shareholders are also invited to set up a visit with their family by advance call and are encouraged to attend on-farm events such as our spring Strawberry Social (u-pick) and Fall Harvest Party. A passion for high quality, healthful foods and a commitment to a sustainable future in agriculture drive Jack and the Featherstone employees to dedicate themselves to growing the best produce possible for local customers.
Chad Forsberg (owner) grew up south of Minneapolis and began growing vegetables there. It was an interest in self-sustenance and sustainability with a concern for world food security that propelled him into agriculture. It was in the Twin Cities where he began working with local chefs to provide them with the finest produce possible, searching out rare, unusual, beautiful heirloom vegetables of all kinds. Footjoy Farm produce is loved and used widely throughout the best restaurants in the cities, and it is this same produce that you will receive each week in your CSA share. Our CSA season starts in early June and runs 20+ weeks. The season begins with salad greens, radishes, green garlic, ramps, peas, cooking greens and rhubarb, but soon includes zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, turnips, beets, chard, beans, snow peas, fingerling potatoes, shallots, onions, cabbage, kohlrabi, herbs, melons, lots of heirloom tomatoes, winter squash, sunchokes, and always, lots of garlic. Throughout the season there may be other treats that find their way into the shares when they are available, such as wild mushrooms, alpine yellow strawberries, raw honey, cuke nuts, dry beans or anything else delicious that may be grown or foraged. We have been planting a lot of various fruit trees, shrubs and vines. It is unclear Our focus is on the quality of each share and therefore the number of shares is limited. Enjoy! Fox & Fawn Farm In 2012, we will be growing 235 total varieties of 72 different crops — everything from acorn winter squash to zebra tomatoes. This year we will be adding 5 apple trees to our existing 25 trees, 12 grape seedlings for a total of 30, and 25 asparagus crowns for a total of 75. Raspberries, rhubarb and strawberries continue to increase production, with blueberries hopefully in our future as well. Our CSA offers the bounty of the season for 17-18 weeks, garden-fresh recipes, stories of our triumphs and travails, and a connection to the food on your plate with farm visits and a harvest celebration in September. We offer Thursday delivery to Chanhassen, Chaska, Mound, Victoria, and Waconia. On Tuesdays, we deliver to Excelsior, Minneapolis (Bryn Mawr), Minnetonka, and St. Paul (St. Anthony Park). Full addresses and times are available on our website. We offer full shares (3/4 bushel) and half shares (3/8 bushel). Deliveries start in mid-June and run until mid-October. Fall shares may also be available, weather permitting. Foxtail Farm
We are located in the St. Croix River Valley south of Osceola, Wis., about 50 minutes northeast of the Twin Cities. For the 2012 growing season we have 300 memberships available. Weekly shares include 7-12 different vegetables and weigh 15-30 pounds. We are heavy on the basics like basil, sweet corn, Yukon Gold potatoes, tomatoes and salad greens. A weekly newsletter is also included. We host a Kids’ Day and a Fall Harvest Festival. Boxes are delivered on Thursday afternoons in the northeast metro area: Minneapolis, St. Paul, the St. Croix River Valley towns of Taylors Falls, Osceola, Marine on St. Croix and Stillwater. They are delivered directly to our members’ homes or workplaces, and a reduced price is charged when multiple boxes are dropped at a single location or if the shares are picked up at the farm. Former members have first option, and after Feb. 21 remaining shares will be available for new folks. If you would like to be on the wait list for these remaining shares, please e-mail or call us. Our season runs from mid-June through mid-October and averages 19 weeks. Half shares are not available. A limited number of partial work-share memberships are available. Payment plans can be arranged. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Fresh Earth Farms Truly Local: We are located in the Twin Cities just 20 minutes from downtown St. Paul. Your money stays local to support the Twin Cities economy. Our property taxes support Minnesota, Washington County and the local school district. Very few food miles. Real CSA Farm: Community Supported Agriculture is a business model, not a box of produce. Every member shares in the success of the farm. All the produce we grow goes to our members (or local food shelves). No competition from alternative sales channels (e.g. farmers’ markets, wholesale). Small, Family Farm: We don’t skimp on customer service. Have a question? Talk directly to the farmer! We provide personalized service to all our members. You won’t compete with grocery stores for our attention — or our produce. Support Community: We donate excess produce to Twin Cities food shelves. We hire only local Twin City residents and students. We donate shares to local nonprofit organizations and schools. Support other small family farms: We resell organic fruit, meat and cheese from similar small family farms. Sustainably Grown: Through the use of cover crops, rotations and organic inputs, we provide nutritious, delicious fruits, vegetables and herbs while improving the soil for future generations. Gale Woods Farm The CSA operation involves teenage youth from the nearby suburbs and the cities in growing produce for the shares. In addition to learning about sustainable agriculture, they are given leadership-training opportunities and inspiration to create positive change in their home communities. Produce is also provided the Mound West-Tonka foodshelf. Shareholders are encouraged to get involved with the farm for events such as maple syruping, lambing in the spring and our harvest celebration in the fall, as well as assisting the youth farmers on workdays. The season runs from mid-June to mid-October. Eggs, meat, maple syrup, honey and other products raised at Gale Woods are available for purchase in the farm store. Shares are picked up market-style at the farm on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. This market is also open for the general public to purchase produce. Shares go on sale the first Monday in March at 9 a.m. and usually sell out by noon. Garden Farme This year, we will again be growing a wide variety of vegetables and herbs for our CSA. Members will enjoy rhubarb, lettuces and greens, herbs, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, beans, peas, broccoli, summer and winter squash, radishes, turnips, carrots, beets, rutabaga, kohlrabi, onions, potatoes and sweet potatoes. Thirty memberships are available for the 2012 season, which runs 18 weeks from mid-June until mid-October. We have 2 pick-up options to choose from. One will be an on-the-farm pick-up on Tuesdays. The second is a pick-up on Saturdays at a Twin Cities farmer’s market (TBD). One size share approximately 3/4 bushel. A farm newsletter will be e-mailed to you (or you can receive a paper copy if you don’t use e-mail) on the Monday before our first pick-up day informing you of the vegetables in your share, recipes, farm news and overall feedback from our members. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Garden Fresh Farms Starting in 2010, we developed special methods, lighting and equipment that allow us to grow all year-long in a controlled warehouse. No droughts, pesticides or harsh chemicals. We use chemical-free methods in growing, but because we are an aquaponic operation, we are not certified organic. Aquaponics is the method of growing hydroponically, where the fish provide the fertilizer, instead of artificial fertilizers and chemicals. It is a special partnership between fish and plants that gives our produce its bountiful bouquet and taste. We naturally fortify our water with calcium and iron for improved nutrition. All our produce is available year-round starting April 1st for our CSA subscribers. Variety, not surprises each week, helps our subscribers with menu planning by providing a set weekly variety of products. We grow several varieties of leaf lettuce, herbs, sprouts, seasonal berries and mint. We raise rainbow trout and tilapia, and harvest them on a regular basis. Your subscription includes fresh artisan breads and other scheduled items. Check our website for the weekly menu. Access to fresh, natural, locally-grown green produce and fresh fish year round, what could be healthier for you and our environment? Gardens of Eagan Organic Farm For those who embrace the Community Supported Agriculture concept but can’t make the CSA lifestyle work, Gardens of Eagan, a certified organic produce farm owned and operated by the Wedge Co-op, is breaking the mold. How it works: Benefits:
We are Certified Naturally Grown, which means our produce is grown in strict accordance with the national organic standards. We grow a variety of traditional fruit and vegetable favorites, along with some unique heirloom vegetables. Our current delivery day is Tuesday and our drop-sites are at our farm in Prior Lake, Valley Natural Co-op in Burnsville, Mississippi Market Co-op in St. Paul and coming soon we will also have drop- sites in Bloomington and Minneapolis! We love knowing where our food comes from — who’s your farmer?!?
In 2012 Growing Lots is nurturing a relationship with a rural farm site where it will be renting a small amount of land to grow space-consuming crops like winter squash, corn and melons. The pick-up site is exclusively at the farm, because we want you, the Share Members, to visit the farm every week, watch your food grow, and chat with us, your farmers. We look forward to you being a part of our growing community!
Choose a 30-week share (May-December), a 20-week peak season share (June-October), an Every Other Week delivery, or choose the weeks that you receive a box with our flex plan! We also offer a fruit share full of outstanding fruit produced by organic growers from across North America; certified organic, grass-fed Angus beef and pastured pork; fresh roasted organic Kickapoo coffee; and a cheese share featuring high quality organic cow and sheep’s milk cheeses produced by local farms! Every delivery includes a newsletter with reports from the farm, plus recipes and tips from our farm chef. We offer several payment options and 12 delivery sites in the Twin Cities area, with Thursday delivery to Bloomington, Plymouth, Linden Hills/Fulton, Lyn-Lake/Kingfield, Powderhorn, NE Minneapolis, Como Park, Whittier, Eden Prairie, St. Paul/Mac-Groveland and Rosemount. Our meadow is always available for overnight camping and we have member events each season, including a strawberry picking day in June and our fall harvest party potluck in September. The farm is located 3.5 hours east of the Twin Cities in the Driftless region of southwest Wisconsin. We also deliver to our local area: Viroqua, La Crosse & Onalaska.
We are active members of the Land Stewardship Project and are firm believers that local farmers who work together can accomplish great things! Join the Herbal Turtle Family and let us be your farmers! Pricing and Ordering The Half “Shell” Share (20 weeks) The Full “Shell” Share (20 weeks) Share Add-ons:
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Back Farm Our regular season share is chock full of over 40 different crops, including lettuce, corn, carrots, beans, tomatoes, peas, squash, potatoes, garlic, broccoli, beets, onions, melons and more. Our main season runs for 18 weeks, from June to October. Our share comes in a large reusable crate which, depending on the time of year, contains from six to 26 pounds of produce. Your share also includes our informative newsletter that tells you what’s in the box and what’s going on at the farm. We also offer out popular winter shares so you can extend the good eating later into the year. The winter share consists of four deliveries every-other-week from October through Thanksgiving. The winter share overflows with cold-hardy crops like spinach, broccoli, cabbage and kale, as well as storage crops like carrots, potatoes, beets, squash, onions and garlic. We deliver shares on Thursdays to pick-up sites in Minneapolis, St. Louis Park and St. Paul. Please visit our website for a sign-up form, to read the past year’s newsletters, or to contact us if you’d like to receive a brochure by mail.
Our offerings are dynamic: what we grow is based on the feedback of CSA members and the results of trials with new crops. Salad mix, tomatoes, potatoes, sugar snap peas, broccoli, spinach and carrots are perennial favorites. We offer a great variety of produce, chicken and fish through our seasonal farm shares. An e-newsletter with preparation tips, recipes and an update from the fields is included with your weekly share. In addition to our Summer Share, we also offer a Fall Share, Winter Share (frozen), and Chicken Share (offered in the summer and fall). The Fall Share (Oct.-Nov.) contains the best of the fall crops, including salad greens, cooking greens, and certified organic apples. Our frozen Winter Share contains many of the favorite summer and fall vegetables, berries, as well as prepared foods such as soups and pasta sauces. The frozen Winter Share is delivered in December and January. NEW in 2012 is an expanded offering of fruit with our shares, as well as fresh frozen fish. Please visit our website for more information about our farm shares. Bring more organic produce and other healthy options to your table in 2012 by joining La Finca CSA! La Finca, Inc. is certified organic by ICS.
Through our 18-week CSA, we work cooperatively with neighboring family farms who share our love of the land to also offer you strawberries, blueberries, 14 varieties of apples, free-range chicken eggs and over 18 different flavors of artisan sourdough breads. You will receive fruits while they are in season as part of your vegetable share. Bread and egg shares are available to add on to your vegetable share if you so desire. We raise all the usual vegetables that you grew up with, but we love to raise things like ground cherries, patty pan squash, purple carrots and yellow fleshed watermelon to make sure that your eyes and taste buds are more then satisfied. We deliver to drop-off sites in the northern Twin Cities Metropolitan Area.
You can print out applications and meat share forms on the blog-site. If you are interested in bringing your school group out to see old-fashioned horse-drawn farm machinery in action, please e-mail us! We drop shares on Wednesday afternoons at the following locations:
We are always on the lookout for more drop sites, and will be updating our list as the season approaches. Interested in hosting a drop-site? E-mail us!
Quality produce is our goal. You’ll also receive a weekly CSA Loonletter, chock-full of favorite recipes, produce tidbits and farm news. Three harvest gatherings, farm tours, and u-pick opportunities are offered in the summer and fall for members. Additional produce for preserving and canning is offered to members at wholesale prices throughout the season, along with the option to extend the season with a Fall CSA Share. We offer full and 1/2 share sizes. One full share is 18 weeks of boxes containing 10-15 different vegetable crops that should be enough for a family of four, or a voracious veggie eatin’ couple. A 1/2 share is a full box every-other-week, and is great for beginners and dabblers (9 weeks of boxes). CSA pick-ups are at our farm a few miles west of Hutchinson, at our booth at the Mill City Farmers’ Market on Saturdays, at the Applehouse in Chanhassen, and at Harvest Moon Co-op in Long Lake. The Long Siding Farm The Long Siding Farm has received USDA organic certification; therefore we are able to offer locally grown, really fresh, certified organic fruits and vegetables at a reasonable cost. Close proximity to the Twin Cities enables us to deliver to the metro area daily. We grow a wide variety of USDA certified organic fruits and vegetables. We’re happy to be able to offer everything from arugula to zucchini. In 2011 we had a great season and we’re looking forward to an even better 2012. Our farm includes a high tunnel, enabling us to plant earlier and grow later. Currently drop off locations are available in Minnetonka and New Hope. As the spring progresses, more locations may become available. Two CSA options are available. A full share (over a bushel) is better for a larger family or those who wish to do some preserving/canning. The half share option may be better for small families or couples. Visits to our fields can be arranged. Marshwatch Farms Members also receive Chef Joe’s recipes, along with Terrie’s preserving and canning tips in the weekly newsletter, The Mews. There are periodic events planned for members to participate, including a class in canning. Members are invited to visit the farm and enjoy the educational opportunities, including the bluebird walk, a children’s garden, a butterfly garden, herb and sunflower gardens. CSA: Mid-June to October McKinley Community CSA Starting mid-June and ending in October, you will receive a box of seasonal vegetables once-a-week for an anticipated 17-week season. We offer shares in two sizes: ¾ and ½ bushel boxes. Our pickup locations are in the McKinley, Willard-Hay, Nokomis and North Loop neighborhoods of Minneapolis. Membership with our farm includes a newsletter with updates on the growing season, recipes and invitations to our Harvest Celebration and all classes offered by the CSA. We farm to grow biodiversity in our soil and surroundings. We do not use synthetic pesticides or fertilizers. 2012 will be our farm’s third growing season. Both of our proceeding seasons were successful and 94 percent of our shareholders are returning. This year we are doubling the number of households we serve, adding 35 to 40 new openings with our farm. CSA membership involves shared risk with the farmer, and it is important to us that our members understand this risk. We are beginning and highly motivated farmers. We will continue to work hard to achieve our community’s goals and bring you beautiful food. Shareholders that would be most happy with an investment in our farm will also want to invest in healing the ecology of urban areas, rebuilding local economies and community building, especially across racial and economic identities. Thanks for considering our farm. Sign-up: mckinleycommunity.csasignup.com/members. Mhonpaj’s Garden We like to incorporate recipes and hopefully continue the honey farm at our operation. CSA drop site locations:
My Minnesota Farmer As your farmers, we strive to offer the best, freshest and most delicious produce around. We offer more than 30 different varieties of fruits and vegetables over an approximately 18-week CSA season or 21 week extended season. Our main focus is growing fruits and vegetables that most people know and enjoy. We also have weekly egg shares. We sell young, tender, tasty, broiler chickens raised on grass and sunshine, grass-fed beef shares and Thanksgiving turkeys as additional ways to feed your family with utmost confidence that you are eating quality food. Our farm is situated on 40 acres, 30 miles south of the Twin Cities. Over the past seven years we have been growing the farm piece-by-piece, each year growing more food on healthier soils. You’ll benefit from the superior produce harvested from our nine high tunnels. We are committed to growing our food free of chemicals in a natural and sustainable way and providing that food to you in its freshest, simplest form. We offer delivery to 12 Twin Cities and outstate locations, or you can pick-up at the farm where you can bring home any “extras” we have been blessed with. We celebrate with 3 farm events, but welcome members anytime because we love to show you how we grow your eco-ganic food. Allow us the opportunity to be your farmer. Natura Farms Pick-Your-Own CSA As a PYO-CSA member, you will receive basic training in harvesting each crop, you may participate in other farm activities, and you’re welcome to enjoy our picturesque lakeside picnic-playgrounds. We FARM FOR HEALTH. We have invested 30 years building up our soil so it will consistently produce healthy plants. Healthy plants taste better and are able to protect themselves from pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and even insects. We have little need for pesticides. The incredible flavor and aroma of our produce reflects its nutrient richness. We are third-party certified by Food Alliance. Log on to our website (www.NaturaFarms.com) or e-mail us (info@naturafarms.com). Natura Farms Traditional CSA A large part of our farm is dedicated to growing delicious and nutritious berries. In addition to the usual vegetables and herbs, you’ll receive fresh strawberries, summer and fall raspberries, currants (white, red and black), table and juice grapes and apples. Members will receive PYO coupons for tasty berries and for two supermarket bags of their favorite veggies — a perfect opportunity to pickle cucumbers, can tomatoes, make salsa and bring the kids to the farm. CSA members will also be invited to glean the fields immediately before the first killing frost. CSA members are welcome to participate in farm activities, learn about sustainable eco-farming practices, and enjoy our picturesque lakeside picnic-playgrounds. We will be hosting two Family Farm Days with potluck lunch, farm tour and picking opportunities! If you’d rather pick your own produce when and how YOU want — 20 to 40 bags — check out our PYO-CSA on page 48 of this directory, or log on to www.NaturaFarms.com or e-mail at info@naturafarms.com for more info.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Farm We are intentional about our chemical-free, sustainable farming practices, including maximizing soil health through green and animal manures, compost, mulch, cover crops and crop rotations. We also use pesticide-free pest management to naturally monitor, prevent and control insects and other pests, and maintain animal health and well-being through the use of loose housing and pasture rotations. We are also intentional about creating community and personal well-being through our connections with the land and its abundance — we invite you to share in that with us. Three farm festivals provide opportunities for visiting the farm to meet the farmers, as well as learn about chemical-free farming, good land stewardship and sustainable living. Other farm activities include workshops on farm crafts and music. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities •
Members receive fresh, organically-grown vegetables and occasionally beautiful flowers delivered each week. My 20th season runs from June through the first week of October. Drop-off sites are located throughout the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Popular farm events happen throughout the summer, including a Garlic Harvest and overnight Corn Feed. I have added many special additions to each week’s bag over the years such as the “salsa pack” — all the ingredients for delicious salsa in one bag with a recipe. This is just one example of the surprises that are in store for you at North Creek Community Farm. Have a farm you can call your “own!” Open Hands Farm We also offer an abundant u-pick section for shareholders only. The u-pick includes strawberries, raspberries, peas, beans, herbs and flowers, and is well loved by people of all ages. U-pick crops are usually available on a take-what-you-want basis, and are a great opportunity for fresh eating, freezing, canning, and/or drying. We aim to have more than enough food available for our shareholders. The leftovers from CSA pick-ups are donated to the local food shelf three times a week in order to share this fresh, nutritious food with our friends and neighbors in need. We believe in growing food sustainably and creating community around food, and have been happily farming here since 2006. Philadelphia Community
Farm Families are encouraged to bring their children to work, learn and play in nature...as we have also been pioneers in the movement to address nature deficit disorder in children. Through biodynamic agriculture, we nurture the farm as a whole organism, building a regenerating circle of soil, plant, animal and human life. Located one-hour northeast of the Twin Cities on the St. Croix River, we serve the St. Croix Valley and Twin Cities. Members take turns driving to bring shares to the drop-sites, or delivery to your home or business can be arranged for an extra fee. Shares are available to returning garden members on a first-come-first-served basis until March 15. We offer three share options — Spring (April 15 to June 1), Summer (June 1 to September 30), and Fall — (October 1 to December 15) that include over 40 types of vegetables and herbs as they come into season. A solar/geothermal greenhouse, hoop houses and mobile high tunnel extend our season. We donate surplus to food shelves. Benefits: visiting the animals, exploring the 300+ acres of preserved forest, prairie, streams and waterfall. Festivals are held in June and September. Piney
Hill Farm
We grow all the standards, including sweet corn and green beans, excel at greens (kale, chard, beets, collards), promote lettuce (my grandmother believed in eating salad every day), and celebrate variety (heirloom tomatoes!). Edamame, ample cherry tomatoes, purple potatoes, basil and shallots are some of the things we love to send out. On Thursdays, we drop at: South Minneapolis (50th and Upton), Uptown (28th and Lyndale), Minneapolis (Seward area), St. Paul (near Hamline), West St. Paul, and Hudson, Wis. (Heritage Greens neighborhood). Farm Highlights: Autumn Hootenany-Live Music with Square Dance and Cider Pressing, Garlic Festival in July and Planting Day in June. “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” — Michael Pollan Ploughshare
Farm Ploughshare Farm was founded in 1998 and has been operating as a CSA since 2002. We have adequate infrastructure to operate our size farm properly. That being said, our operation is still young enough that we are not “set in our ways.” We are continuously asking ourselves how we can do things better. Weekly deliveries to our CSA members include an array of garden staples, gourmet and specialty crops. As a family of six ourselves (four young boys under the age of 15), we keep in mind what families want to eat. In order to assist families with the basics of eating “in-season” vegetables, we offer interactive web resources, weekly e-newsletters, recipes and cookbooks. We have opportunities for members to participate in a “hands-on experience” during our Fall Festival and our June Pea Pick. We deliver weekly over a period from early-June to late September for our regular summer shares. We also offer fall storage shares and winter frozen shares delivered October through March. We have drop-sites at central locations in Minneapolis, Minnetonka, New Hope, Rogers, St. Paul, St. Cloud, Fergus Falls and Alexandria. If you are interested in hosting a drop-site, we offer great incentives. Prairie Sun Farm We provide sustainably grown vegetables June through October in both half share and full share sizes. One full share is 18 weeks of boxes containing 7 – 15 different vegetables. A half share is a full box every-other-week. Each 3/4 bushel box contains many varieties of vegetables, including a few you probably haven’t tried before — all organically grown and picked at their peak for freshness. A weekly newsletter will keep you informed about what’s going on at the farm and provide tasty recipes to try. The farm, which was primarily corn and soybeans before we purchased it, sits on 40 acres with wetlands and prairie surrounding it. During the past few years we have been transitioning it from a conventional, monoculture farm into a diversified, productive landscape. Cover crops are used to enhance the soil and provide weed control, and 10 acres of prairie provide opportunity for wildlife and beneficial insects. The weekly or bi-weekly shares will be available for pick-up in downtown Chaska at Dolce Vita Wine Shop on Wednesdays, or at the farm on Thursdays. Come join us and share in the rewards of healthy eating. Call, e-mail us or visit our website at www.prairiesunfarm.com for more information.
LOGISTICS: Depending on the weather, deliveries generally start the second week of June and run through at least the end of September. We harvest on Mondays and offer on-farm pick-up only (no delivery runs this year). We offer a wide variety of vegetables and herbs throughout the season. (A detailed list is available on the website). While not required, we do offer optional garden work days as an opportunity for members to get to know each other, us, and our growing practices. Some working member opportunities are available as well. PHOTOS: More details (plus pictures of weekly boxes from previous seasons) are available at our website: www.ReimannFamilyFarm.com.
Farmgirl Suzy was featured, along with other women farmers, in a documentary film called “Ladies of the Land.” She truly believes that living our lives fully means eating healthy food. Shareholders get “newsletter” e-mails from the farm describing your produce, tips for using, recipes and health news. Your weekly share starts out lighter (near ½ bushel) but finishes more than ¾ bushel by late summer and fall. You can add on an egg share in your weekly pick up. Eggs are from an assortment of hens for an eye-pleasing assortment of tan, brown and green eggs. Hens are fed non-GMO whole grains and organic produce all year long. These eggs are sold at the local co-op as well, and are the first sold out because of their rich taste. You can also opt for an additional flower share and/or chicken broilers. Broilers are free range, fed Non-GMO whole grains and all organic produce and greens and weeds their entire lives. Shares are “pick up at the farm” near the corner of Hwy. 55 and Cty. Rd. 42E in Hastings. There is also a drop off point in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis. Riverbend
Farm All of our produce is certified organic and sustainably grown through cover crop and crop rotation systems, composting and use of green manures. We are active in the Local Fair Trade Network as well. You can be sure that your CSA share will support your health as well as the health of our community. Our 18-week delivery season will provide you with a diverse array of delicious, fresh-from-the-fields, seasonal produce. We also grow many heirloom varieties to ensure that your meal-plan will never lack in color, flavor or an abundance of choices. In addition, we offer extra produce (at an additional cost) for families interested in canning, freezing, etc., to ensure that their diet is as local as possible year-round. Shares are available for pick-up at the farm Tuesday evenings and at local co-ops on Wednesdays. Contact us or visit our website at www.rbfcsa.com for more information. • Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities • Sam Kedem Nursery & Garden We offers year round PYO & picked produce, eggs, honey, preserves, growing aids and workshops. The following programs are available: Options: 26-week track full share; 26-week 1/2 share CSA. Preferred Customer membership: 15 percent discount, including year-round PYO, Christmas trees, plants, meat birds and growing aid; volunteer benefit program; food shelves donations. Come join a growing circle of satisfied customers. Check our website for more. Simple Provisions Free home delivery to families in the St. Croix Valley, Minneapolis, St. Paul and surrounding communities. No fly list: Let us know which vegetables just won’t fly with your family and we will substitute other selections. Two free vacation weeks: Take up to two weeks off and we will add those boxes to the end of the season. Earn $20 for you or your favorite cause for each new share member you refer. A CSA farm share from Simple Provisions is a tasteful assortment of seasonal vegetables and berries, herbs and flowers. Each week’s share box will contain 7 to 10 kinds of produce and will weigh 10 to 15 pounds or more (usually enough to share with friends). Shares will begin around June 15 and will continue for 18 weeks. We prefer to use open pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds and use absolutely no plastic mulch, chemical fertilizers, weed killers or pesticides in our gardens. Take a look at Simple Provisions and discover how we are creating a superior CSA. Sleepy Root Farm Our goal is to ground people in the spirit of place and the pulse of the seasons through fresh produce. The greater sense we have of what really shapes us, what really sustains us, the better we are nourished body and soul. Servicing the Twin Cities — Northeast, Seward, St. Anthony Park — and the west-of-the-metro areas of Delano, Buffalo, Excelsior and Minnetonka. We offer 18 weeks of a full and two-thirds share of vegetables, herbs and fruit. Minnesota pottery share also available. We welcome people to come out to the farm for special events or to simply visit. Included with the share is a weekly newsletter with recipes, tips and a few musings on the profoundness of our relation to the greater edible ecosystem. Visit our website, www.sleepyrootfarm.com, to find out more about us and to sign up for the CSA. Spring
Hill Community Farm Spring Hill membership includes a work requirement. Each household comes to the farm at least once during the season to harvest, wash and deliver vegetables to pick-up sites in the Twin Cities. To learn more, please give us a call or visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you! Stones Throw Urban Farm LLP We use natural soil amendments and no pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. All our weeding is done by hand or hoe, and we always welcome help! For our CSA members, we have two convenient pick-up sites, one in Minneapolis and one in St. Paul. Pick-up day is Friday and there will be on-site u-pick options like peas, beans, herbs, flowers and more. The CSA will start in early June and end 20 weeks later in October. The shares will average 10 to 15 pounds of delicious local produce! We are spread out in the Twin Cities, so there is a good chance we are farming in your neighborhood, and you are always welcome to visit and see how your food is grown. We look forward to being your local farmer and building a strong community with you. Check out our Facebook page for more details and ordering information. Sweet Beet Farm Located 35 miles west of Minneapolis, Sweet Beet is a fourth-generation family farm. Young farmers Nick and Amelia Neaton and their family are in their fourth year supplying quality, 100 percent naturally grown produce, eggs and lamb to the Twin Cities metro area, while transitioning the family farm. We grow food the way it wants to be grown — naturally, without chemicals. Our farming methods respect the diversity of our land, water and wildlife so that the next generation of farmers will also enjoy this healthy, thriving land. This year, we are featuring full- and half-shares in our CSA. Shareholders receive a bounty of fresh produce each week, beginning in mid-June and ending in mid-October. We grow a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, including heirloom and rare varieties, as well as old favorites. We also offer fall shares and wholesale pricing, weather dependent. Our pickup options include Twin Cities drop sites (including co-ops), on-farm pickup, and home or office delivery. Besides farming, we both have backgrounds in education, a gift we share with our CSA. Shareholders receive weekly newsletters, packed with interesting facts, farm happenings, recipes and more. We also encourage farm visits for hands-on learning! Please feel free to call or e-mail with any questions about our farm. We look forward to growing food for your family! Sylvan
Hills Farm A weekly newsletter e-mailed with recipes, box contents, and tips. Work shares are optional, 90 varieties of vegetables including heirlooms, traditionals, and watermelon, picked and delivered fresh within 24 hours. Large or regular options are available for a weekly delivery of either size. We offer an easy 4-payment option online at www.sylvanhillsfarm.com — discounts for full payment. Join the Garlic Celebration in July for fun in cleaning circles and share a meal together. Visit the farm on the first Sunday following Labor Day weekend to enjoy September Harvest Bounty Feast — a dinner on the farm! Customer surveys rate us high for quality and dependability. Members may opt to help harvest surplus bumper crops to donate to the food pantry or can/freeze. We grow soils and biota, which create healthy plants and produce high in nutrition. All inputs to soil are our own compost grown on the farm, or certified organic amendments to make sure the soil is balanced and has important trace minerals. To assure you’re getting the highest standard of quality, we are certified to insure you as the customer that you’re getting what you paid for. Multiple varieties of carrots, corn, beans, peas, tomatoes, lettuce, garlic, squash, broccoli, cabbage, beets, peppers, kale, chard, onions, herbs, and more. Please call for any further information. Thorn Crest Farm At Thorn Crest we have been growing produce without the use of herbicides and synthetic pesticides for 25 years. We are committed to caring for our land and providing our members with a wide variety of fresh, nutritious and great tasting produce. Membership includes a weekly share of produce, starting out light and increasing to ½ bushel to a full bushel of produce, depending on the season and growing conditions. The season runs 18 to 22 weeks, starting late May or the beginning of June. Members can pick up their produce shares at the farm or at a drop-site located at Just Foods co-op in nearby Northfield, or at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville. Pick-your-own opportunities may be available at the farm for certain crops. Members are invited and encouraged (at no additional charge) to take advantage of these extras. Possibilities may include peas, green beans, basil, strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes, and occasionally others. Members can cut their own bouquet from the cutting garden as the season progresses. Limited chicken/turkey/egg shares are available to members. Members are encouraged to stroll around the farm and enjoy the beautiful countryside. We hope you’ll join us for the next growing season. Growing produce is our passion; we’d love to be your farmer! Treasured Haven Farm We only include vegetables that we have personally grown so you are guaranteed of their origin and highest standards in naturally-grown farming practices. Our goal is to exceed your expectations in educational opportunities, quality, quantity, service and value. From our many options, you can create what best fits your family’s lifestyle and budget, and pick up at one of many conveniently located drop sites. Our farm website has detailed information. Also available: harvest boxes, pumpkins, chickens, turkey, beef, eggs, fruit shares, and more. Take an easy trip up I-35 to help in the gardens, walk or run wooded trails, see the animals, or just enjoy the open countryside on 450 acres. Our members are welcome to pitch tents or bring their camper. Watch the process of building a log home with a large gathering room for farm events. We also host seasonal cross country running races on the farm trails, which are open to everyone! Check www.treasuredhavenfarm.com for more details. Thanks for reading about Treasured Haven Farm!
Our farm’s focus on pasture-raised, slow-growth heritage breeds produces the most flavorful, healthy and humane meats available. With year-round monthly deliveries to 13 metro area pickup locations, our CSA is a convenient way to try out sustainable heritage meats. One taste and you’ll be hooked — most other farmers raise blander breeds designed for factory farms. We offer well-marbled, grass finished, dry-aged beef and lamb as well as pastured non-GMO and chemical-free fed pork, chicken, duck, turkey and eggs. We make our own sausage using local heirloom herbs and spices. Sign up at www.truecostfarm.com and taste what a difference heritage breeds make! Here are three ways to buy our products: 2) Delivered a la carte — Choose which products you want and we’ll deliver to you either on a regular basis like a CSA or as a single purchase. 3) Bulk purchases — 10 percent off mix-and-match bulk purchases! Many people prefer this to buying half of a steer because you choose which cuts and types of meat your family enjoys most. Turnip Rock CSA Full and single share options, weekly delivery on Thursday. We focus on growing the familiar favorites including strawberries, broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, salad greens, spinach and sweet corn to name a few. We have an online sign-up option that makes sign-up easy and allows you to buy canning tomatoes, freezer sweet corn and pesto basil throughout the summer. Organically fed, pasture raised pork, eggs, beef, chicken and soon, our own farmstead cheese available. We have 14 drop sites in Robbinsdale, Minneapolis, Eden Prairie, Stillwater, Roseville, Northeast Minneapolis, and Mississippi Market in St. Paul, plus more. We are fully equipped with irrigation, coolers, delivery vehicle and proper machinery to bring you the goods in great condition. Tusen Tack Farm Uproot Farm 2012 is our second season at Uproot after having spent a few years apprenticing on organic CSA farms. The land we farm was previously in conventional production, so we are in transition to organic and are using cover crops and compost applications to allow the land to rest and rejuvenate. We had a great first season in 2011, and hope you’ll join us in 2012! Your share will be a weekly delivery of a ¾ bushel box. It is designed to feed two veggie-loving adults or four veggie-liking people, and each box will contain between 6 and 12 kinds of veggies, depending on that week’s harvest. Each week you will receive a newsletter with recipes, storage and handling advice, and news from the farm. Delivery is Wednesday, with pick-up between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Your share will begin by the third week of June and run for 17 weeks. Please visit www.uprootfarm.com for more CSA details, to view pictures of the farm, and to sign-up for a share.
We offer an 18-week vegetable share that starts mid-June and runs through October. We pack ¾ bushel boxes and offer both full and bi-weekly shares. Each week we fill the boxes with 10 to 14 different vegetables. We focus on staple vegetables but also grow some more exotic varieties to keep things interesting. We also offer an egg share, winter share and pastured meats. Our delivery options include: on-farm pickup, drop site delivery and home delivery in the Twin Cities Metro Area. Our delivery day is Tuesday. Webster Farm Organic We specialize in a greater variety of nutrient-dense foods in smaller amounts, much of which can be eaten fresh and simply. We meet members Thursday evenings in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and host at-the-farm Friday evenings. We have multiple opportunities to visit the farm, and publish weekly newsletters and recipes. We will make substitutions for food allergies. With Salad Days, everyone eats well. Visit us at www.websterfarmorganic.com for photos, schedules, sites, information and sign-up forms. Will Heal Farm We offer a variety of vegetables throughout the growing season, starting June 1 ending October 1. Salad greens, snow peas, wild edibles, carrots, beans, heirloom tomatoes, zucchini, winter squash and gourmet garlic are just a few vegetables that we offer. A variety of medicinal herbs are also available at the farm or Grass Roots Co-op in Anoka. We harvest and package shares on Tuesdays. Pick up your share directly at the farm, Grass Roots Co-op in Anoka, or Fresh and Natural Foods in Shoreview. There is a one-time delivery fee of $20 in addition to the share cost for pick up at off-farm sites. We will be offering vegetables and products from the farm at Goose Lake Farm and Winery Artisan and Farmers’ Market, located in Nowthen, on Saturdays 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., starting in mid-May through October. Check out our website at www.willheal.com for more information about our CSA program, vegetables we grow, herbal products we make, bulk medicinal herbs and composting red worms. Winding Road Farm Our season at Winding Road Farm runs from mid-June through late October. You will receive a reusable box of fresh, delicious produce delivered once-a-week for approximately 18 weeks. You have the choice of a full share, which will contain roughly enough veggies for a family of four, or a half share, which will contain roughly enough veggies for two people. Every week’s box will also contain our exciting and educational farm newsletter with tips for storing and preserving that week’s items, as well as recipes and farm updates. We deliver to your home or work within 15 miles of St. Croix Falls, Wis., as well as drop-sites in Mahtomedi, Northeast Minneapolis and the Seward Neighborhood in Minneapolis. We are open to organizing new drop-sites, so feel free to contact us even if we aren’t currently delivering to your neck of the woods.
Bluebird Gardens In addition to the box deliveries from June to mid-October, take part in the bonus harvest events on the farm where you walk in our shoes, stock up for winter, make a memory with your family and take a piece of the farm home with you. Serving Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Fergus Falls, Wahpeton, Rothsay, Breckenridge, and a route from Underwood to Perham to Detroit Lakes to Pelican Rapids and all locations in-between. Enjoy the effects of biological farming where flavor and nutritional density flourish when we build the house for the biology.
GRG employs sustainable methods of crop production through the use of composts, manure, mulches, green manures, cover crops, crop rotations and minimal use of pesticides. Many varieties of produce are grown that have better flavor and/or nutrient value than those most commonly available. All GRG CSA members are welcome to come tour the farm at any time throughout the season and we have a fall festival/harvest celebration on the farm in September for all members. GRG CSA shares will include the following crops, in-season: asparagus, beans, beets, blueberries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, cucumbers, currants, herbs, gooseberries, kohlrabi, lettuce, onions, peas, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, spinach, squash, strawberries, sweet corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, watermelon and zucchini. Kitchen tested recipes are included each week to help utilize those products you may not be familiar with. Keppers’ Pottery & Produce So that you receive the freshest vegetables possible at peak nutrition, we practice same-day harvest. There are no large refrigeration storage units on our farm. We harvest, rinse and deliver to you. Each year the farm hosts a garden tour, spring and fall events. Members are welcome when visits are arranged in advance. You choose on which weeks of our 35-week harvest schedule you want vegetables — we give you our harvest schedule and you choose the number of weeks you get vegetables. This allows you maximum flexibility to meet your schedule needs. Our passion and commitment to building healthy soil translate to superior nutrition and flavor for all we serve.
Shepherd’s Share – receive a variety of our yarn that includes lace weight, fingerling, worsted, aran, gurnsey, lopi, bulky, handspun, hand painted, and art yarns. It’s a mix that will satisfy knitters, crocheters, felters, and weavers. Spinner’s Share – receive a variety of our fibers as washed wool, locks, roving, sliver, and spinning batts. We’ll sneak in crumbles, glitz, silk, corn, angora, and mohair just to make things really exciting. Each share comes in three levels: half, full, and double. The 2012 season begins with lambing and the first shipment in April. Shipments or deliveries will be made every other month for the rest of the year: June, August, October, December, and February.
Our CSA garden is 100 percent chemical-free. We raise over 100 varieties—heirlooms for their incomparable flavor and high nutritional value, and hybrids for their productivity in our northern climate. Produce is picked at the peak of ripeness, then delivered within hours for maximum immune system boosting. We do not grow any GMO crops, nor do we buy seeds from any Monsanto company. We offer three share sizes:
Members receive a weekly e-newsletter with garden reports, recipes featuring the upcoming week’s harvest, fun facts about unusual varieties and anecdotes about Midheaven Farm life. When we have more of a veggie crop than we can pack into the share boxes, members can pick-their-own for free. We also offer an egg share. Chicks bought last October will start laying this spring. They’ll range in the garden with protection from predators. Their grain ration is homegrown biodynamic wheat, oats and barley, with supplemental organic soybean meal.
As a family with small children, we pay close attention to the health of our soils and ourselves, never utilizing chemical fertilizers or pesticides. Our CSA season runs for 16 weeks from Mid-June to Mid-October, and we offer both full every-week shares and every-other-week shares. Besides produce, members can also reserve whole chickens we raise on pasture. We deliver directly to your home or business in our local area between Pelican Rapids and Detroit Lakes on Friday afternoons.
Our CSA runs for 18 weeks from mid-June through mid-October. We offer both full and half shares. Half shares are a full box of produce delivered every-other-week throughout the season. Delivery sites are at the St. Peter Food Co-op and on Good Council Drive in Mankato. We also have pick-up at the farm. We offer a wide selection of vegetables, herbs and fruit. We grow all of the standard vegetables like juicy tomatoes, crisp lettuce and carrots, and tender broccoli to name a few, but we also grow a few of the under-utilized veggies like tomatillos and rutabagas. In our weekly newsletter, we give tips and recipes for that week’s produce. In the end, the CSA members ultimately decide what we grow with their feedback. We have worked hard to grow what our customers want and in quantities that are useful to them. We also offer tomato preserving shares and a fall share. We hope that you will join us in celebrating how good food can be when it is grown with a love of the soil and eaten with a mind towards the idea that food connects us all.
During the season, you will find over 40 different vegetables, fruits and herbs in your share. We delight in bringing our members several varieties of different crops such as tomatoes, peas, carrots and potatoes, including many heirloom varieties. We sell full- and half- shares, delivering on Monday or Thursday to drop-off locations in the Bemidji area. The vegetable garden only takes up about four acres of our 160- acre farm. A quarter of the farm is maintained as wildlands, including a tamarack swamp, floating sedge bog and hardwood forest. On the rest we raise highland cattle for beef (and fertilizer!), bees for honey and heritage chickens for eggs and meat. Beef, honey, eggs and chicken can be purchased as additions to our shares.
As both teachers and farmers, we have always enjoyed the opportunity to work outside with the rhythm of the seasons. After several years interning, volunteering and managing at different farms, we began our own farm business in 2010. In 2012, we will be offering full and half CSA shares from June through October. Full shares consist of a ¾ bushel box of produce every week for 18 weeks and half shares consist of a ¾ bushel box every-other-week for 18 weeks. We raise many of the most popular vegetable and herb crops, along with a few heirloom varieties for flavor and a change of pace in your kitchen. Each share box includes a newsletter with delicious recipes that will get you excited to turn your share box into tasty meals and snacks for your family. First and foremost, we strive to provide you with fresh produce that looks great and tastes delicious. We prewash your produce and most of your produce is harvested fresh on the day we deliver to you. For more information, please visit our website: prairiedrifterfarm.wordpress.com.
Helpful recipes and a weekly newsletter are offered through our website. CSA shares will be delivered on Wednesday evenings to your home in River Falls or picked up at the farm. Chemical-free growing methods are employed throughout the farm with a strong emphasis on soil building, minimal tillage and ecological mindfulness. In addition to the CSA garden, we are busy establishing perennial fruits and permacultural areas, growing a small dairy goat herd, expanding our flock of happy hens, and otherwise developing our new farmstead. As a family with young children we welcome new families to participate in our CSA and our Children’s Garden. CSA members and hard-working individuals interested in good food and garden knowledge are encouraged to visit the farm. Two fun-filled farm events will be offered each season.
Our farm offers naturally grown produce. Our farming practices ensure that our soil and produce are healthy and sustainable. We love having visitors out to the farm and encourage our members to join us for tours, potlucks and field days. We offer full shares: a 3/4 bushel box every week for 18 weeks and 1/2 shares: a 3/4 bushel box every-other-week for a total of 9 boxes. Each share includes a weekly newsletter with news from the farm, recipes, and storage tips. We also offer additional products to our members including grass-fed beef, pasture raised chickens, maple syrup and eggs. Please check out our website or give us a call for more information.
Land Stewardship & You The Land Stewardship Project is a membership organization that is making this vision a reality by instituting programs that are rooted in the deep, fertile soil of communities like yours. Our members include people on farms, in the city and in suburbs. We are working with farmers, consumers, policy makers, businesses, academics, environmentalists and people concerned with justice in our society. The Community Supported Agriculture farms listed in this directory paid a fee to be included. This free publication is also made possible by the members of the Land Stewardship Project. We need your support to continue building and promoting a sustainable way of producing and consuming food. Join Land Stewardship Project today! For
more information, contact us at: Land Stewardship Project’s Regional Food Work • The Stewardship Farm Directory The Directory is available in pdf format at www.landstewardshipproject.org/foodfarm-main.html#sfd. Paper copies can also be obtained by contacting LSP’s Twin Cities office at 612-722-6377 or info@landstewardshipproject.org. More Information |
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