Thursday CSAs for RTP and Chapel Hill Businesses
Harland's Creek Farm in collaboration with Wiseacre Farm, Ayrshire Farm, Pine Knot Farm, and selected other local growers will offer four CSA options for delivery to RTP and Chapel Hill businesses in 2010. Participants may choose one or more of the following options.
- Produce and Herbs (a combination of certified organic offerings from Harland's Creek Farm and Pine Knot Farm and sustainably grown offerings from the other farms[1])
- Pasture Raised Chicken (Harland's Creek Farm)
- Organic Strawberries (Pine Knot Farm)
- Organic Flowers (Harland's Creek Farm)
Subscribers support sustainable, local food production and get first choice of our offerings.
Delivery to Rho, Inc will be on Thursdays at 3:00 pm at the 5th floor work room. RTI flowers will be delivered to the Cox building at by 3:30 on Thursdays and food to the outdoor CSA delivery location from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Subscribers who enroll in the Produce/Herbs and the Pasture Raised Chicken programs will receive:
- A recipe booklet with recipes and with preparation and storage instructions. The booklet includes recipes that feature vegetables, herbs, fruits, meat, chicken, eggs, and cheese.
- 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.[2]
Organic 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 29, 2010 through November 18, 2010.
Bill Dow, Esta Cohen, Laurie Heise, and Judy Lessler with packed boxes. Farm dogs jumped into picture to be petted.
Pasture Raised Chicken that is antibiotic and hormone free and fed an all-grain diet will be provided seven times during the season. All our chicken is processed locally at the Siler City small scale chicken processing plant. We will provide fresh whole chickens, and you can purchase several and freeze
them for later use. Our website contains links to videos that show how you can cut up a chicken in about 5 minutes.
Organic Strawberries will be provided for seven weeks, April 29 – June 10, 2010. You can purchase one or two quarts under in this program. These will be provided by Stanley Hughes of Pine Knot Farm who is pictured on the right.
Organic Flowers will be provided for 25 weeks during the year. These closely follow the growing season beginning when the narcissus are in bloom and including tulips, lilies, irises, sunflowers,gomphrena, zinnias, gladiolas,lisianthus, celosia, amaranth, and many more. Options in this program include receiving arrangements in vases or grower’s bouquets in flower sleeves. Vases are returned each week. Flowers vary by season of the year. Summer flowers and winter flowers are shown below.
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.
Sign-up online or download and mail the 2010 Thursday CSA enrollment form.
[1] Wiseacre Farm, Ayrshire Farm, and the other local growers use sustainable organic methods but are not certified.
[2] There are no refunds due to unavoidable weather, pests, or disease problems. Such a risk is slight. In eight years of CSA operation, HCF has never failed to provide full value.