Thursday CSAs for RTP and Chapel Hill Businesses

Thursday CSAs for RTP and Chapel Hill Businesses

Mid-Chatham Farmers Alliance: April 28-November 17, 2011

Mid-Chatham Farmers Alliance is a collaboration among Harland's Creek Farm, Wiseacre Farm, Roberson Creek Farm, Pine Knot Farm, and selected other local growers.  We will offer three CSA options for delivery to the RTI campus and to Rho, Inc. in Chapel Hill.  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 FRESH whole chicken (Harland's Creek Farm)
• Pasture raised FROZEN  chicken breasts or leg pairs (Harland's Creek Farm) 

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.[2]  

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 28 through November 17, 2011.  We will have a break on October 6 and deliver a double share on November 17, 2011 which is the Thursday before Thanksgiving.  Most of the produce and herbs will be certified organic.

Pasture Raised Chicken that is antibiotic and hormone free and fed an all-grain diet will be provided fourteen 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 once a month and frozen chicken breasts and leg pairs once a month.  You can also cut up your whole chickens.  Our website contains links to videos that show how you can cut up a chicken in about 5 minutes.

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] Wiseacre Farm and  the other local growers use sustainable methods but are not certified. 

[2] 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.