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What is this
Food Growing Service?
Market
area:
Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Wausau areas.
For
a pre-paid "subscription" cost of $20 a week you will get a weekly
basket of
produce for up to 18 weeks of the growing and harvesting
season. We ask that you complete payment by March 1, 2010. If you can't
pay the whole season in advance, pay for as many weeks as you can in
the initial installment, then complete the payments later.
(If any of this is confusing, just call us at
715-344-2939, thanks.)
What
you get for your share: We will constantly survey and
monitor food prices for organic, farmers' market and grocery store
offerings at a range of local markets during the season,
and aim to provide you with a retail value equal to or greater for a
comparable package you receive from us. This is our
commitment to affordability.
Early
in the season when the range of fresh produce is limited, weekly shares
will be lighter than later weekly shares.
To order your
2010 share:
Paying by PayPal
You
may send a check to the address below, or if you are accustomed to
using PayPal for safe, secure online transactions, click the link below
before March 1st:
ONE to 10 WEEKS
11 WEEKS up to Full Season
New feature: We have teamed up with Raikowski Farm
of Junction City, WI to provide shares of frozen poultry, beef and
pork. These are available now, with delivery to you.
Poultry Share: $50
delivered to you, frozen, whole birds. USDA labeled.
Mixed box of meat cuts--$50, delivered:
November box is 2 pkg. pork chops (2/pkg); 1 pkg. rib steaks
(1/pkg.); 1 beef chuck roast; and 1 pkg. ground beef (1# pkg.) USDA labeled.
Prefer
checks to PayPal? Click the link below
Paper Sign-up instead of
PayPal
Paying
for shares by working: "Work Shares"
If
money is an issue this year, please consider work-shares. The
exchange-rate (work for produce shares) is not the
best in town, but not the worst rate either. Simply click on
the
link below, and scroll down half a page to "work shares" for more
detail.
Signup
page for work-share
BioDiverseCity Produce Shares
Here's what we'll be attempting to offer in 2009
(assuming the weather cooperates)
| Early --middle June
thru late Jul | Middle -- late Jul
to mid-Sep | Late -- mid Sep
to early Nov. | | Apples, berries, other fruit as available | | | X | | Basil | | X | | | Beets | | X
| | | Broccoli | | X | | | Cabbages--red and green | | X | X | | Carrots | | X | X | | Celery | |
| X | | Cucumber-slicing & pickling | | X | | | Eggplant | | X | X | | Eggs--from pastured chickens | | X | X | | Gourds | | | X | | Green beans | X | X | X | | Herbs--various | X | X | X | | Kale | | X | X | | Lettuce, 12 varieties | X | X | X | | Melons | | X | X | | Onion--yellow & red | | X | X | | Peas-snap & edible pod | X | X | | | Pepper--sweet | | X | X | | Pepper--hot | | X | X | | Potatoes | | X | X | | Pumpkins | | | X | | Radishes | X | | | | Salad, mixed greens | X | X | X | | Spinach | X | | | | Squash--summer | X | X | | | Squash--winter storage | | | X | | Sweet corn | | X | X | | Tomatoes--cherry | | X | | | Tomatoes--paste | | X | | | Tomatoes--slicing | | X | X |
Getting a Gift Certificate
(For people in Stevens Point, Wisc. Rapids, Marshfield or Wausau or
their suburbs)
If you want to buy produce shares as
a gift for someone, just send us a note accompanying your PayPal
payment (above) or on the written sign-up sheet if you're not using
PayPal. We'll make out a certificate and send it to the person you're
gifting, according to your instructions.
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Why do farms ask for
pre-payment for shares before the season starts?
Well, here's a short list of reasons: all the
expenses
faced before the first vegetable plants poke up through the ground:
Seed costs
Compost costs
Utility bills
Paying helpers a livable wage
Internet service and website
Fencing to keep critters out
Maintaining the farm equipment
Water pumps and maintaining them
Procuring hardware and misc. supplies
Flats for planting the seeds in a greenhouse
Costs of potting soil or making our own potting soil
Cost of fuel for getting everything prepared and planted
Maintaining the vehicles to get produce to the consumers
A mile of hoses to run drip lines to the gardens for watering
Green manure and cover-crop seed to keep building soil organically
For poultry:
Chicks !
Shelters for chicks
Incubator for chicks
Freezers or freezer space rental
Moveable pens for pasturing the poultry
Vehicles and fuel to get poultry to the processor
Vehicles and fuel to get poultry to the consumer
...and things you never think of until you need them!
CSA,
local food, vegetables, farm shares, fresh produce, Stevens Point,
Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids, Amherst, Rosholt, Plover,
54481,
54467, 54449, 54407, 54473
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