Lake Superior CSA
Bayfield Foods Cooperative August 3rd , 2016
Lake Superior CSA
In The Boxes This Week VEGGIE BOXES: Broccoli OR Chard, Cherry Tomatoes, Slicer Tomatoes, Green Beans, Carrots // Great Oak Farm Fennel, Zucchini/ Yoman Farm Peppers, Garlic // River Road Farm
VEGGIE Basics : Green Beans, Broccoli, Carrots, Tomatoes //Great Oak Farm Peppers // River Road Farm MEAT BOXES: Ground Beef + Beef Roast// Hidden Vue Pork Roast // Maple Hill Farm MEAT Basics: Whitefish // Bodin’s Ground Beef + Beef Roast // Hidden Vue Pork Roast // Maple Hill
PLUS ITEM: Sheep + Goat Cheese // Happy Hollow Creamery + Sassy Nanny Creamery Spritzers // White Winter
Please Flatten and Return all Veggie, Fruit and Meat Boxes.
Greetings! We have had a few thoughtful CSA members ask about how our CSA works with regards to sharing the risk of food production with the farmers, and I wanted to take a minute to share some thoughts with all of you. For those who might not be familiar with the CSA concept, the “traditional” CSA model was designed (over 20 years ago!) so that CSA members pay a farm (in full) in advance of the growing season for a “share” of what the farm will grow throughout year. CSA member prepayments help the farm with start up cash flow in the spring. If the farm has a particularly bountiful year, the boxes are a little heavier each week, and if the farm has a particularly challenging year, the boxes have less in them each week. In theory, this guaranteed payment and flexibility in box contents helps to ensure that small farms can stick around for the long haul. While it seems counter intuitive, the traditional model of a CSA farm getting paid in advance of the season regardless of how much food goes in the boxes has actually been the demise of many CSA farms across the nation. In theory if a farm has a tough year, they can still survive on the prepayments of their CSA members. Unfortunately, many members will not sign up for a share the following year. As a result, CSA memberships plummet, sometimes for years thereafter, leaving the farm without a strong market for what they are growing. Finally, without a reliable market, the farm is forced to shut down. Statistically, one of the biggest reasons that CSAs fail is boxes coming up lighter than members had expected - the average national retention rate for CSA membership is only about 40%! We growers at the LSCSA figured we could do better than that, so we put our heads together to come up with a different model to optimize the system for both growers and CSA members. In the end, we farmers intentionally designed this CSA to minimize the risk to you, our CSA members. Since we are a Cooperative of growers, if one farm comes up short on a certain product, that farm or another farm in our cooperative can provide a good substitute to keep you all stocked up with great local food each week. Eating locally and seasonally is tough enough sometimes without crop failures or overwhelming surpluses in your boxes! In order to make eating locally and seasonally more accessible to a wider range of our community, we also wanted monthly payment options in addition to lump sum payments. This has really opened the door to CSA membership to a wider audience - the vast majority of LSCSA memberships are with monthly payment options. To address cash flow issues in the spring for our farmers, our Cooperative gives growers the option to get an advance payment on their sales at the beginning of the season to help with the usual spring start up costs, particularly for newer growers who really might rely on that early season cash flow. After 6 years of seeing this LSCSA in action, I have great news to report – our new model is working well! I am happy to report that our retention rate is MUCH higher than the national average, and CSA membership continues to grow annually. As a farmer, I and many of the other growers in our Cooperative can attest to the fact that while growing food can be challenging at times, getting the all the food out to people in our communities is the biggest hurdle to keeping farms on the map. By taking the long view, and keeping our CSA boxes full and fabulous in good times and bad, we can keep the CSA going strong year after year. Ultimately, this assures that both the CSA and all of the 26 small farms who are members of our Bayfield Foods Cooperative remain vibrant and viable for many years to come. Thanks so very much for trying out this CSA, and making the commitment to eating locally and seasonally from small farms in our community. We’re proud to be your farmers! Yours in community – Chris Duke, Great Oak Farm
Fruit: Cherries + Blueberries
Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork Ingredients 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 (4 pound) pork shoulder roast 1 cup barbeque sauce 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 1/2 cup chicken broth 1/4 cup light brown sugar 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 extra large onion, chopped 2 large cloves garlic, crushed 1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme 8 hamburger buns, split 2 tablespoons butter, or as needed
Preparation 1. Pour the vegetable oil into the bottom of a slow cooker. Place the pork roast into the slow cooker; pour in the barbecue sauce, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. Stir in the brown sugar, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, onion, garlic, and thyme. Cover and cook on High until the roast shreds easily with a fork, 5 to 6 hours. 2. Remove the roast from the slow cooker, and shred the meat using two forks. Return the shredded pork to the slow cooker, and stir the meat into the juices. PLEASE FLATTEN
Spread the inside of both halves of hamburger buns with butter. Toast the & RETURN CSAbuns, butter side down, in a skillet over medium heat until golden brown. Spoon pork into BOXES! the toasted buns.
What’s New at the CSA! Honey BalsamicTips Glazed Carrots Veggie Basics Special Order
Blueberry Pancakes
Order a fresh veggie box with no commitment. Great for those who want to supplement their veggie stash or just try out what we have to offer!
INGREDIENTS 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
Order Veggie Basics Box - Just $16 per box!
2 eggs 1 cup milk, plus more if needed 1 cup sour cream
Meat Basics Special Order Order a South Shore Meat box with no commitment. Great for those who want to supplement their veggie stash or just try out what we have to offer!
Order Meat Basics Box—Just $31 per box!
1 stick butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large mixing bowl. In a separate large bowl, lightly whisk the eggs. Add the milk, sour cream, half the melted butter and the vanilla, whisking to blend. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour the egg mixture into it. Whisk the ingredients together just until blended. Fold the blueberries and lemon zest into the batter. Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat and coat with some of the remaining melted butter. For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup of the batter into the hot skillet. Cook 3 or 4 pancakes at a time, depending on the size of the skillet. If the batter seems too thick, thin it with 1 to 2 tablespoons milk. When bubbles begin to form and "pop" on the pancake's surface, after about 1 minute, and the outer edge looks done, flip it
Here is a Sneak Peek at Next Week 8.10 * * Please note these are subject to change
VEGGIE BOXES: Broccoli or Chard, Cherry Tomatoes, Green Beans, Carrots // Great Oak Farm Zucchini + Basil // Yoman Farm Garlic, Green Onions, Tomato Slicers, Peppers// River Road Farm
VEGGIE Basics : Tomato, Broccoli, Cucumber, Green Onion, Carrots, Basil MEAT BOXES: Ground Beef + Beef Stew + Ground Beef//Hidden-Vue Farms + Moonlight Meadows + Griggs Cattle Co. Assorted Pork // Maple Hill Farm Whitefish // Bodin’s
Meat Basics Whitefish, Beef Stew, Beef Steak, Assorted Pork PLUS ITEMS: Jams/Butters // Bayfield Apple Co.
Fruit: Blueberries + Cherries
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Bayfield Fruit Share Update! This week you have a delicious combination of Bayfield fruit! This is a wonderful summer for fruit up here in the orchard lands. The wet spring and summer, combined with all the sunshine we have had, has made for a great fruit season. In your fruit share you will find sweet cherries from our friends at Apple Hill Orchard, as well as some blueberries. These berries are a mix of fruit from the Bayfield Apple Company and Rocky Acres Berry Farm...a team effort! For the rest of the fruit season, we hope to bring you the following: lots of blueberries (it's a great year for these), some more sweet cherries, peaches (fingers crossed), apples and cranberries. If we can, we also would like to get some pears in the mix! We also will fit a few treats in the boxes to come jams, jellies and cider. Of course all of the fruit depends on what Mother Nature decides to do. We hope for continued sunshine, (gentle) rain, and no big storms or hail. We hope you enjoy eating your fruit as much as we enjoy bringing it to you!
Lake Superior CSA
In The Boxes This Week VEGGIE BOXES: Broccoli OR Chard, Cherry Tomatoes, Slicer Tomatoes, Green Beans, Carrots // Great Oak Farm Fennel, Zucchini/ Yoman Farm Peppers, Garlic // River Road Farm
VEGGIE Basics : Green Beans, Broccoli, Carrots, Tomatoes //Great Oak Farm Peppers // River Road Farm MEAT BOXES: Ground Beef + Beef Roast// Hidden Vue Pork Roast // Maple Hill Farm MEAT Basics: Whitefish // Bodin’s Ground Beef + Beef Roast // Hidden Vue Pork Roast // Maple Hill
PLUS ITEM: Sheep + Goat Cheese // Happy Hollow Creamery + Sassy Nanny Creamery Spritzers // White Winter
Please Flatten and Return all Veggie, Fruit and Meat Boxes.
Greetings! We have had a few thoughtful CSA members ask about how our CSA works with regards to sharing the risk of food production with the farmers, and I wanted to take a minute to share some thoughts with all of you. For those who might not be familiar with the CSA concept, the “traditional” CSA model was designed (over 20 years ago!) so that CSA members pay a farm (in full) in advance of the growing season for a “share” of what the farm will grow throughout year. CSA member prepayments help the farm with start up cash flow in the spring. If the farm has a particularly bountiful year, the boxes are a little heavier each week, and if the farm has a particularly challenging year, the boxes have less in them each week. In theory, this guaranteed payment and flexibility in box contents helps to ensure that small farms can stick around for the long haul. While it seems counter intuitive, the traditional model of a CSA farm getting paid in advance of the season regardless of how much food goes in the boxes has actually been the demise of many CSA farms across the nation. In theory if a farm has a tough year, they can still survive on the prepayments of their CSA members. Unfortunately, many members will not sign up for a share the following year. As a result, CSA memberships plummet, sometimes for years thereafter, leaving the farm without a strong market for what they are growing. Finally, without a reliable market, the farm is forced to shut down. Statistically, one of the biggest reasons that CSAs fail is boxes coming up lighter than members had expected - the average national retention rate for CSA membership is only about 40%! We growers at the LSCSA figured we could do better than that, so we put our heads together to come up with a different model to optimize the system for both growers and CSA members. In the end, we farmers intentionally designed this CSA to minimize the risk to you, our CSA members. Since we are a Cooperative of growers, if one farm comes up short on a certain product, that farm or another farm in our cooperative can provide a good substitute to keep you all stocked up with great local food each week. Eating locally and seasonally is tough enough sometimes without crop failures or overwhelming surpluses in your boxes! In order to make eating locally and seasonally more accessible to a wider range of our community, we also wanted monthly payment options in addition to lump sum payments. This has really opened the door to CSA membership to a wider audience - the vast majority of LSCSA memberships are with monthly payment options. To address cash flow issues in the spring for our farmers, our Cooperative gives growers the option to get an advance payment on their sales at the beginning of the season to help with the usual spring start up costs, particularly for newer growers who really might rely on that early season cash flow. After 6 years of seeing this LSCSA in action, I have great news to report – our new model is working well! I am happy to report that our retention rate is MUCH higher than the national average, and CSA membership continues to grow annually. As a farmer, I and many of the other growers in our Cooperative can attest to the fact that while growing food can be challenging at times, getting the all the food out to people in our communities is the biggest hurdle to keeping farms on the map. By taking the long view, and keeping our CSA boxes full and fabulous in good times and bad, we can keep the CSA going strong year after year. Ultimately, this assures that both the CSA and all of the 26 small farms who are members of our Bayfield Foods Cooperative remain vibrant and viable for many years to come. Thanks so very much for trying out this CSA, and making the commitment to eating locally and seasonally from small farms in our community. We’re proud to be your farmers! Yours in community – Chris Duke, Great Oak Farm
Fruit: Cherries + Blueberries
Slow Cooker Texas Pulled Pork Ingredients 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 (4 pound) pork shoulder roast 1 cup barbeque sauce 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 1/2 cup chicken broth 1/4 cup light brown sugar 1 tablespoon prepared yellow mustard 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 extra large onion, chopped 2 large cloves garlic, crushed 1 1/2 teaspoons dried thyme 8 hamburger buns, split 2 tablespoons butter, or as needed
Preparation 1. Pour the vegetable oil into the bottom of a slow cooker. Place the pork roast into the slow cooker; pour in the barbecue sauce, apple cider vinegar, and chicken broth. Stir in the brown sugar, yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, chili powder, onion, garlic, and thyme. Cover and cook on High until the roast shreds easily with a fork, 5 to 6 hours. 2. Remove the roast from the slow cooker, and shred the meat using two forks. Return the shredded pork to the slow cooker, and stir the meat into the juices. PLEASE FLATTEN
Spread the inside of both halves of hamburger buns with butter. Toast the & RETURN CSAbuns, butter side down, in a skillet over medium heat until golden brown. Spoon pork into BOXES! the toasted buns.
What’s New at the CSA! Honey BalsamicTips Glazed Carrots Veggie Basics Special Order
Blueberry Pancakes
Order a fresh veggie box with no commitment. Great for those who want to supplement their veggie stash or just try out what we have to offer!
INGREDIENTS 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
Order Veggie Basics Box - Just $16 per box!
2 eggs 1 cup milk, plus more if needed 1 cup sour cream
Meat Basics Special Order Order a South Shore Meat box with no commitment. Great for those who want to supplement their veggie stash or just try out what we have to offer!
Order Meat Basics Box—Just $31 per box!
1 stick butter, melted 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large mixing bowl. In a separate large bowl, lightly whisk the eggs. Add the milk, sour cream, half the melted butter and the vanilla, whisking to blend. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour the egg mixture into it. Whisk the ingredients together just until blended. Fold the blueberries and lemon zest into the batter. Heat a large skillet or griddle over medium heat and coat with some of the remaining melted butter. For each pancake, pour about 1/4 cup of the batter into the hot skillet. Cook 3 or 4 pancakes at a time, depending on the size of the skillet. If the batter seems too thick, thin it with 1 to 2 tablespoons milk. When bubbles begin to form and "pop" on the pancake's surface, after about 1 minute, and the outer edge looks done, flip it
Here is a Sneak Peek at Next Week 8.10 * * Please note these are subject to change
VEGGIE BOXES: Broccoli or Chard, Cherry Tomatoes, Green Beans, Carrots // Great Oak Farm Zucchini + Basil // Yoman Farm Garlic, Green Onions, Tomato Slicers, Peppers// River Road Farm
VEGGIE Basics : Tomato, Broccoli, Cucumber, Green Onion, Carrots, Basil MEAT BOXES: Ground Beef + Beef Stew + Ground Beef//Hidden-Vue Farms + Moonlight Meadows + Griggs Cattle Co. Assorted Pork // Maple Hill Farm Whitefish // Bodin’s
Meat Basics Whitefish, Beef Stew, Beef Steak, Assorted Pork PLUS ITEMS: Jams/Butters // Bayfield Apple Co.
Fruit: Blueberries + Cherries
Bayfield Foods Cooperative
Bayfield Fruit Share Update! This week you have a delicious combination of Bayfield fruit! This is a wonderful summer for fruit up here in the orchard lands. The wet spring and summer, combined with all the sunshine we have had, has made for a great fruit season. In your fruit share you will find sweet cherries from our friends at Apple Hill Orchard, as well as some blueberries. These berries are a mix of fruit from the Bayfield Apple Company and Rocky Acres Berry Farm...a team effort! For the rest of the fruit season, we hope to bring you the following: lots of blueberries (it's a great year for these), some more sweet cherries, peaches (fingers crossed), apples and cranberries. If we can, we also would like to get some pears in the mix! We also will fit a few treats in the boxes to come jams, jellies and cider. Of course all of the fruit depends on what Mother Nature decides to do. We hope for continued sunshine, (gentle) rain, and no big storms or hail. We hope you enjoy eating your fruit as much as we enjoy bringing it to you!
