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2011 CSA Shares

The CSA at Arrowhead is pleased to offer the following share programs:

Turkey Shares
Poultry SharesPork Shares
Combination Livestock Shares Lamb Shares
Early Spring Vegetables Best of the Summer Share
Late Season Vegetables Tree Fruits
Daffodil & Herb Cutting Summer Cutting Garden

If you would like to make a payment to the CSA at Arrowhead, log into your PayPal account, click on the send money tab, and fill in the information. This will allow you to make your payment plan payments with your credit card. Use our CSA@ArrowheadFamilyFarm.com as the send to email address.

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Beef Cattle Livestock Share 2011

  • Add a Beef Livestock Share - the protein share will consist of 8 to 10 packages total of small cuts of beef for grilling, and ground beef patties. Each package should be about 4 servings each.
  • The cost of each Combination Livestock Share is $150, which includes a $5.25 butcher fee and a $.75 U.S.D.A. Inspection fee.
  • The shares will be distributed with one weeks notice. Each share is a one time pickup.
  • Our meat is raised using all-natural practices, no hormones or antibiotics, no animal by-products, butchered at a U.S.D.A. licensed facility, inspected, cut, packaged and flash-frozen.
  • Remember, you are purchasing a share of Livestock, paying a butchering and inspection fee and agreeing to pick your share of meat on the pickup date. Each date has limited shares, so please sign up early.
  • Your Beef Livestock share will include some or all of the following: small steaks, steak tips, Kabobs and plenty of ground beef patties

Combination Livestock Share 2011

  • Add a Combination Livestock Share - the protein share will consist of 8 to 10 packages total of pork and lamb. Each package should be about 4 servings each.
  • The cost of each Combination Livestock Share is $148.50, which includes a $5.25 butcher fee and a $.75 U.S.D.A. Inspection fee.
  • The shares will be distributed with one weeks notice. Each share is a one time pickup.
  • Our meat is raised using all-natural practices, no hormones or antibiotics, no animal by-products, butchered at a U.S.D.A. licensed facility, inspected, cut, packaged and flash-frozen.
  • Remember, you are purchasing a share of Livestock, paying a butchering and inspection fee and agreeing to pick your share of meat on the pickup date. Each date has limited shares, so please sign up early.

Your Combination Livestock Share may include any of the following:

ham steaks, breakfast sausage, Sweet Italian sausage, bacon, Canadian bacon, ribs, chops, cutlets, kabobs, ground meat, stewing meat, Sweet Italian Lamb sausage, and shanks.

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The Pork or Lamb Share 2011

  • Add a Pork or Lamb Livestock Share - the protein share will consist of 8 to 10 packages total of pork and lamb. Each package should be about 4 servings each.
  • The cost of each Single Meat Livestock Share is $148.50, which includes a $5.25 butcher fee and a $.75 U.S.D.A. Inspection fee.
  • The shares will be distributed with one weeks notice. Each share is a one time pickup.
  • Our meat is raised using all-natural practices, no hormones or antibiotics, no animal by-products, butchered at a U.S.D.A. licensed facility, inspected, cut, packaged and flash-frozen.
  • Remember, you are purchasing a share of Livestock, paying a butchering and inspection fee and agreeing to pick your share of meat on the pickup date. Each date has limited shares, so please sign up early.

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Poultry Share 2011

  • Add a Poultry Share -this share consists of three Rhode Island Red hens. We are offering these wonderful birds at a share price of $60, plus a $6.00 butcher's fee.
  • To reserve a bird we ask for a $25 deposit. You may use PayPal, mail a check or stop by the farm during regular CSA Pickup hours.
  • Rhode Island Reds will be available for pickup in November.
  • $41.00 will be required at pickup.

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Turkey Share 2011

This year we are offering two Heritage Breed Turkeys for November. White Holland, a broad breasted turkey bred in the Hudson River Valley back in the 1600s, and the Narragansett, a smaller breasted, and slightly darker meat bird bred in Rhode Island in the 1700s. Both are excellent flavored birds, and will make a great addition to your holiday meals.

The turkeys will be priced at $6.40 per pound, with a $50 deposit on order. Pickup will be in November, and the final price will include a $4.85 butcher's fee.

Both birds will be offered in sizes small, medium, or large. Exact weights cannot be guaranteed.

To Order Shares and Pay using PayPal, click on the following menu:

Livestock Shares

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Early Spring Vegetable Share

This share starts in early April and runs through mid June, or approximately 11 to 12 weeks. We will utilize our solar greenhouses to gain early production. Crops will include Arugula, Asian Greens, Baby Beets, Basil, Beet Greens, Bok Choi, Chinese Cabbage, Chives, Garlic, Green Onions, Heirloom Lettuces, Italian Parsley, Mizuna, Red Onions, Rhubarb, Salad Greens, Sessantina, Spicy Greens, Spinach, Sugar Snap Peas, Swiss Chard, and (hopefully) the first early strawberries.

The cost of the Early Spring Share is $385 for a full share and $285 for a small share (we reserve the right to add a heating fuel surcharge of up to $15 if March is colder than normal).

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Best of the Summer Share

A Best of Summer Share is approximately 8 to 20 pounds of vegetables, harvested at the peak of the season. This is usually enough to fill one or two large grocery sacks.

The cost of a full share is: $325.00
The cost of a small share is: $225.00

The shares are distributed weekly August through September. Some items you might expect in your vegetable share, weather dependent:

Green and Yellow Beans
Romano Beans
Heirloom Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Sweet Corn
Zucchini
Summer Squash
Cherry Tomatoes
Patty Pan Squash
Turnips
Radishes
Golden Beets
Red Beets
Chioggia Beets
Bok Choi
Green Kale
Red Kale
Cabbage
Sweet Onions
Celery
Sweet Peppers
Eggplants
French Crisp Lettuce
Spinach
Swiss Chard
Broccoli Sessantina
Asian Greens

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Late Season Vegetable Share

Finish the season with a late season vegetable share or join us for a short trial share before next season.

This late season share will run for 7 weeks starting early in November.

This vegetable share will include both greenhouse grown vegetables and late field grown vegetables such as Arugula, Asian Greens, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Celeriac, Collards, Green Onions, Kale, Kossac Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuces, Mustard Greens, Pak Choi, Potatoes, Red Choi, Red Turnip, Rutabaga, Spinach, Tatsoi, Turnips, White Salad Turnip, Winter Squashes, and a different Heirloom Apple Cultivar each week.

The cost of the late season share is $300 full share or $200 small share (we reserve the right to add a heating fuel surcharge of up to $15 if November is colder than normal).

Vegetable Shares Available

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Tree Fruit Share

The cost of the Tree Fruit Share is $285, due at sign-up.

The shares will be distributed mid-July through early November, or approximately 18 to 20 weeks, dependent on the weather.

Some items you might expect in your Fruit Share: White Peaches, Yellow Peaches, Apples, Plums, Cherries, Nectarines, Pears, Apricots

Tree fruits are grown using I.P.M. (Integrated Pest Management) methods with limited minimal spraying, all done at the blossom time.

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Daffodil & Herb Cutting

April, May, and June

Cut your own daffodils and fresh herbs (basil, thyme, sage, chives, etc) a perfect partner for the Early Spring Vegetable Share.

This add-on share will be $100 and run for 11 to 12 weeks

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Summer Cutting Garden

Enjoy the summer season with cut your own herbs, mint, and bright and colorful summer flowers. Keep your vases full with the colors of summer. Zinnias, Snapdragons, Ageratum, Celosia, Gomphrena, Cosmos, and more.

The Summer Cutting Garden Share runs for 20 weeks and the cost is $285

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Click here for an application form/brochure

 

Everyone Eats

Remaining vegetables and unclaimed shares are donated to local food pantries or soup kitchens at the end of each distribution week.

 

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