2012 Durham Collaborative CSA
In 2012, Harland's Creek Farm is joining with Pine Knot Farm, Roberson Creek Farm, Fickle Creek Farm, and Chapel Hill Creamery to bring you an expanded set of CSA options. We have modified the food plans to provide a greater range of choices. Subscribers will receive a CSA booklet that includes recipes and information on storage and cleaning. We included recipes for fruits, greens, herbs, summer vegetables, pork, beef, chicken, eggs, and cheese and a special section on cooking for children.
You have all heard of CSA enrollees whose refrigerators are stuffed with food that they have not eaten and that they do not know how to prepare. This rarely happens with our customers because we provide weekly meal plans that use the share contents. We even include a shopping list of additional ingredients that you need to prepare a suggested meal. This saves you lots of time because you do not need to flip through the recipes to identify, for example, how many ounces of pasta, corn grits, or whatever is needed to make a suggested recipe.
Pick-ups are at the Durham Farmers’ Market so you get to know us, and we get to know you. We send you blog posts and you can visit the participating farms by prearrangement to help, to learn, and to enjoy.
All participating farms are members of the Durham Farmers’ Market. Most of the produce and herbs will come from Harland’s Creek Farm, Pine Knot Farm, and Roberson Creek Farm. Harland’s Creek Farm and Pine Knot Farm are certified organic, and Roberson Creek Farm uses sustainable, earth friendly methods. Fickle Creek Farm raises healthy meat, poultry, and eggs using “environmental stewardship, sustainable practices, and humane animal treatment.” Chapel Hill Creamery makes cheeses from their own herds of Jersey Cows. Use the links above to learn more about our collaborators.
The Main Season of the Durham Collaborative CSA runs for 22 weeks from May through September with pick-up at the Durham Farmers Market on Wednesdays. This year we are offering an early Fall Extension which will include seven deliveries beginning on Saturday, October 6, 2012 and ending the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Pick-ups for the Fall Extension will be at the Saturday Durham Farmers’ Market. Food options include:
Produce and Herb Shares: Weekly shares of from 5 to 10 vegetables and herbs selected from a wide range of items that vary with the seasons. Deliveries are made in wax vegetable boxes, and customers return their prior week’s box when they pick up the current box. Boxes will be larger during the 22 weeks of the main CSA season and somewhat smaller during the fall extension. $470 main, $120 fall extension.
Meat Shares: Pasture raised beef, chicken, and pork will be provided on a rotating basis. We are offering a gourmet share and a family share this year, with the former including smaller amounts of more expensive cuts such as steaks and chops and the latter having larger amounts of less expensive cuts such as ground beef, chicken leg quarters, stew beef, and so on. $416 and $350 main; $126 and $105 fall extension.
Check out this link for examples of each type of meat share.
Eggs Shares: We are offering two types of egg shars this year: small is a half dozen eggs provided weekly; a large share is a weekly dozen. $69.50 and $139 main; $15.75 and $31,5o, fall extension
Cheese Shares: Weekly cheese selected from the seven kinds of cheese made by Chapel Hill Creamery including camembert like Carolina Moon and New Moon, mozzarella, farmers cheese, feta, an aged cheese called Hickory Grove, and the award winning Calvander cheese which won a gold medal in the hard cheese category at the North American Jersey Cheese Show and was second best in show. This cheese is similar to Asiago. $218 main; $63 fall extension.
Click on these links for more information:
- What we grow and example produce and herb box contents
- Example meal plans and shopping lists
Payment is due at enrollment. You may pay with a single check or with two checks one of which is post dated a month later than the first. There is a $10 discount for enrolling in the Produce and Herbs and one other food program. You can also pay online with PayPal; there is a small charge for online payment. Click here to get a paper form for the 2012 Durham Collaborative CSA.
Member signup online at this link. It is also on the drop down menu.