Tuesday CSA for Chatham County and Raleigh NC

Tuesday CSAs for Chatham County and Raleigh

Mid-Chatham Farmers Alliance: April 26-November 15, 2011

Mid-Chatham Farmers Alliance is a collaboration among Harland's Creek Farm [Judy Lessler], Wiseacre Farm [Laurie Heise], Cohen Farm [Esta Cohen], Roberson Creek Farm [Bobby Roberson], Pine Knot Farm [Stanley Hughes] , Clayton Orchard [Andy Clayton], and selected other local growers.  In addition, we are teaming with Bickett Market to provide fish and a pick-up location for our Raleigh customers.   There are four CSA options available for on farm delivery and for delivery in Raleigh.  Produce and herbs can be picked up at Chatham Marketplace.     

• Produce and herbs: a combination of certified produce from Harland's Creek Farm  and Pine Knot Farm and sustainably grown offerings from the other farms (available at all sites)
• Meat and Chicken (available at Harland's Creek Farm)
• Fish and Chicken (available at Bickett Market in Raleigh)
• Fruit (available at Harland's Creek Farm and Bickett Market in Raleigh)
• Eggs (available at Harland's Creek Farm and Bickett Market in Raleigh)

Subscribers support sustainable, local food production and get first choice of our offerings. Each will receive:

• A CSA booklet with instructions on cleaning and storing vegetables. The booklet includes recipes for vegetables, herbs, fruits, meat, chicken, eggs, and cheese.  There is also a special section on cooking for children.
• Weekly meal plans, suggested recipes, and shopping lists for non-share ingredients
• Visits to participating farms by prearrangement to help, learn, or enjoy

Our recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists simplify your efforts to provide healthy food for yourself and your family.  CSA customers are first in line for products from the farms. If you use the meal plans, the shopping list provides you with an easy way to determine what other items you might like to purchase at the market or on your trip home. Note that growing conditions may prohibit provision of planned products or planned volume.[1]  

Produce and Herbs will be provided for 30 weeks. Each week subscribers will receive a box which contains from 5 to 10 vegetables and herbs.  You return your prior week’s box when you pick up the current box.  This program will run from April 26, 2010 through November 15, 2011. 

Meat and Chicken will be provided on alternate weeks for 30 weeks.  We will include fresh whole chicken and frozen chicken breasts or leg pairs, ground beef, pork sausages, and larger cuts of beef and pork, such as, roasts, chops, and steaks.  These will be provided weekly on a rotating basis.  The chicken will come from Harland's Creek Farm and is pasture raised and antibiotic and hormone free. The beef and pork comes from Cohen Farm.  The animals are raised on certified organic pastures, then finished on the Cohen's certified organic grain, with some additional molasses as a supplement.

Pasture Raised Chicken and Fish will be available for our Raleigh customers for 30 weeks.  The chicken will come from Harland's Creek Farm and is pasture raised and antibiotic free. Fresh whole chickens and frozen chicken breasts and leg pairs will be provided.  The fish will come from Bickett market and will feature wild caught, just off the boat fish and shellfish from NC.  

 Eggs will be provided for 30 weeks from Cohen Farm’s free range chickens,

Fruit will be provided for 10 weeks by Clayton Orchard (www.claytonorchard.com) and will include peaches, grapes, plums, and melons.  Two sizes are offered:[2]

• Large:  A large bag of peaches [18 to 20 peaches] or a medium bag of peaches plus either a watermelon, a cantaloupe, pint of plums, or quart of Muscadine grapes.
• Small: A medium bag of peaches or a small bag of peaches plus either a watermelon, a cantaloupe, pint of plums, or quart of Muscadine grapes.

 Payment is due at enrollment.  You can pay with a single check or with two checks with one of them post-dated a month later than the first. There is a $10 discount for enrolling in both the produce and the chicken program.

You can enroll using our online form or download and mail the paper form.

[1] There are no refunds due to unavoidable weather, pests, or disease problems.  Such a risk is slight. In nine years of CSA operation, HCF has never failed to provide full value.

[2]  Contents will vary with availability and growing conditions