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Community Supported Agriculture

Posted January 27, 2008

Does anyone have recommendations for joining a CSA farm that has a pick up point that is close to Lake Nokomis? My wife and I would like to join a CSA, but we thought we'd fish for information from you fine folk first.

» Categories: food | Author: rasputin

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6 Comments:

Harmony Valley Farm.

If you're looking to keep it in a close radius to your home to avoid taxing the environment with a lot of fossil fuel burning on its trip to your home area, this might not be the best for you as they are located in SW WI.

If you're looking for flexibility, they allow you to choose 17 weeks for a slightly higher per box price and you can avoid your vacations, trips, etc and not have to give your box to someone else.

They allow payments, monthly, via credit card and will happily give you the option to split the boxes with another family so that you aren't inundated with the selections.

In addition to the vegetable boxes, they also offer organic beef and poultry which you can get from them as well. Getting your own organic, free range turkey for Thanksgiving is an excellent idea if you eat meat products.

Good luck!

»» Submitted by Harmony Valley Farm at 7:35 AM on January 28

Here is a list of CSA's from the Land Stewardship Project.

Here is a bunch of links from the MN Agriculture Department.

I would seriously consider splitting a box with another family, unless you think you can eat 40 pounds of veggies a week. A co-worker split one last year and I ended up getting tons of shallots and garlic every week.

»» Submitted by Mpls Simpleton at 8:36 AM on January 28

Just stay away from back to the earth hippies. We signed up for one last year. It was only their second year of farming. They were city hippies who decided to give organic farming a try.

They failed. We got two pathetic bags of food and then they folded.

Find an established farm, that's my advice.

»» Submitted by »»» kc! at 10:03 AM on January 28

couldn't recommend Common Harvest Farms enough

they have a drop site in Longfellow, as well as a couple other places around town

»» Submitted by »»» spaceman at 12:28 PM on January 28

I'd second Harmony Valley Farm. Even with the big floods last year in Wisconsin, we still got wonderful boxes the entire season. Plus, you can sign up for fruit, coffee, cheese, beef, and poultry -- all organic & fair trade...

»» Submitted by leener at 3:06 PM on January 28

Ploughshare Farm gets my pick.

»» Submitted by Markola at 7:13 PM on January 28

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