The Good Food Collective winter CSA program provides frozen fruit and vegetables from sustainable, upstate NY farms from Winter Sun Farms; stored roots, apples, and fresh salad greens from our Good Food growers near Rochester; and Organic Citrus from a locally owned Florida citrus farm.
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DISTRIBUTIONS:
One Pick-Up Each Month (4 TOTAL)
December 2011 through March 2012
Each month the share includes:
| 6 – Standard Share 12 – Family Share | Frozen Items from Winter Sun Farms [product schedule] |
| 1 Pound | Fresh Organic Winter Salad Greens |
| 10 to 20 lbs. | Organic Root Crop [product schedule] |
| 8 to 10 lbs. | Apples and/or Citrus (Organic oranges and grapefruit from one of our partner farm’s Florida orchard!) |
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Members can order a Family Share
and receive 2 of each of the frozen items per distribution.
Members also have the ability to customize their share by adding a bread share, egg share, pasta share, and a meat share.
Each month members will receive an EMAIL NEWSLETTER letting them know what will be in the share, updates from the farms, and recipes to help in this seasonal adventure. In that newsletter, members will also be able to directly link to an online shopping page and customize their share.
Background Information…
The Good Food Collective has began its WINTER CSA program, starting small but thinking big. We are working with Winter Sun Farms, a winter CSA program in the Hudson Valley/NYC, to see about doing something similar up here in Rochester.
Winter Sun Farms works with a network of farms in the Hudson Valley, NY and processes and freezes the summer harvest for a winter CSA distribution.
Our goal is to create a year-round, value filled supply chain of local food, perhaps setting up similar processing facilities here in Rochester, and developing an expansive winter CSA program. We are offering our members the chance to join a WINTER CSA THIS YEAR that would represent the frozen product available from Winter Sun Farms and their network of NY farms, and the stored and fresh produce available from The Good Food Collective.
Such a project will offer our members access to wonderful, year round product from NY farms and will allow us to study the feasibility of setting up processing and storage facilities here as we continue to work and grow with our network of sustainable farmers in the greater Rochester area.