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Fall CSA Starts 10/1 DC and RVA – Help us Celebrate 10 Years of Local Food!

 CSA Farm Share, Get Involved, Local Food  No Responses »
Sep 172019
 

Our 2019 Fall/Winter CSA season is live for subscription and starts the first week of October running 22 weeks thru the 2nd week of March (includes 2 week Winter Holiday break). We are celebrating our 10 Year Anniversary!!. Sign Up Today — Don’t delay! And please share us with your friends!

Active military/veteran? Use our military discount vs the 10 Year anniversary code. Please email for the code.

THE DETAILS

Subscriptions (descriptions of each share/prices are on the website)

  • Produce/Fruit (will include a few pantry items as the season progresses)
  • Grass-fed Meats
  • Grass-fed Dairy/Eggs (Milk, Butter,Cheese, Eggs, Yogurt)
  • Full Share Package (Produce/Fruit, Meats, Dairy, Loaf of Bread)
  • Pantry – value added items like vinegar, jams, nut butters, krauts, popcorn, grains support our farmers year round as well as small artisan producers.
  • Add ons – eggs and all other dairy items, tofu, bread, certain pantry items, meats, holiday items, etc
  • 1 time shares available for those who can’t commit/have erratic schedules.
  • Partial seasons available for people who may be moving (email for info – don’t sign up online)
  • Holiday break-  no CSA weeks of 12/22 and 12/29, resuming week of 1/5. Your schedule may vary due to your location.
  • Memberships are modular, and flexible with payment plans and vacation holds. Credit rolls season to season.
  • Forms of payment include cash, checks (preferred made out to Farm to Family, LLC and can be mailed or given to Mark), and credit/debit.

DC

  • Starts Tuesday, 10/1 DC Eastern Market; weekly/biweekly; seasonal member fee $100/50*
  • Starts Tuesday,10/8 DC Home Delivery (Capitol Hill 20002, 20003 and Navy Yard); biweekly only, additional $15/time delivery fee charged separately; seasonal member fee $50*

RVA

  • Starts Wednesday, 10/2 Farm to Family/RVA 2817 Mechanicsville Turnpike, RVA 23223; weekly/biweekly; seasonal member fee $50/25*
  • Starts Wednesday,10/9 RVA Home Deliver (within 5 miles of Farm to Family includes Downtown, The Fan, Carytown, Church Hill, Forest Hill, Manchester, Northside, Old Mechanicsville, Ginter Park, Lakeside) biweekly only, additional $5/time delivery fee charged separately; seasonal member fee $25*

*seasonal member pro-rated if you join post-start. Member fee includes everything except cost of food. See Policies and FAQs for  more info. 

Shopping tips: When you get towards the end of the sign up process, you will be prompted to enter in the discount code in a field towards the top and the software will subtract it. In order to find out your price, go thru the process like you are purchasing – when you choose your frequency – weekly/biweekly in the drop down menu – your cost will also adjust. If you leave your cart and come back, make sure to clear your cart to avoid duplicate purcha

Questions? Email Suzi.

Sincerely,

Mark + Suzi

 

 Posted by Suzi Lilly at 4:38 pm  Tagged with: Capitol Hill, CSA, DC, Eastern Market, Farm Shares, Farm to Family, food revolution, grass-fed dairy, grass-fed meats, local food, produce, Richmond, RVA, sustainable food, Washington DC

Gift Certificate and Winter Season Sale

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Dec 202017
 

Solve last minute gift dilemmas with the gift of local food and take advantage of our Gift Certificate/CSA Share SALE! Give (or receive!) the Gift of Local Food and Support our Farmers! Receive 20% off all Winter season CSA shares and Gift Certificates over $100 with discount coupon code HOL2017 thru 12/31 (Enter code at checkout when prompted.)

Gift certificates can be put towards Spring/Winter shares (when they go up) the current season, or any of our add-ons or Stand Alone items.  Visit our online storefront to purchase winter season shares and Stand Alone items (1x shares, add ons) which can be put in the name of your gifted one (or yourself.)

Our CSA serves the Richmond, VA and Capitol Hill/Washington, DC areas.  Happy gifting!

 

 Posted by Suzi Lilly at 5:03 pm  Tagged with: Capitol Hill, community food systems, CSA, Eastern Market, Farm Shares, Farm to Family, Gift Certificate

What’s in the share/Recipes – 11/28 + 29

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Nov 262017
 

Hi members, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are very grateful to have you all in our lives and as members this season. You are a very important part of the local food system and support the farmers we work with. I’m sure you don’t want to hear about more food, but maybe as Tuesday and Wednesday rolls around, you will be more ready. Recipes will follow, I just wanted to get this preview out so you can plan. Remember this list is subject to change. I will do my best to let you know of any changes.

And we will be taking orders for Christmas Trees and Wreaths! I’ll have info on pricing hopefully up on the website soon along with delivery availability, Mark is still working that out with our tree farmer, Gerald Jones. They are spray free Frasier Firs, very beautiful and fragrant, and well balanced.

PRODUCE

  • apples – try apple and nuts overnight oatmeal (dairyfree)
  • sweet potatoes – I love sweet potato, squash or pumpkin in smoothies – try this one
  • collards – I made this recipe for collards with bacon last night in the Instant Pot and it turned out really great.
  • totsoy – Totsoy (aka totsoi) is a hardy spinach like green that likes cold weather. Here’s a great guide with several recipes to try.
  • mint – make mint pistachio pesto
  • turnips – easy mashed turnips
  • carrots – Deborah Madison’s lentil salad with mint and carrots
  • leeks – root vegetable gratin
  • bok choy – baby bok choy and leeks
  • celery – stuff celery with pimento cheese for a great snack or appetizer, celery and red onion salad,    Here’s how to regrow your celery from the bottom of it
  • rutabaga – easy roasted rutabaga
  • butter beans – Vegetarian butter bean soup, Melt in your Mouth butter beans
  • FRUIT – apples – do you have apples piling up? Make spiced apple pie filling,  apple cranberry jam, or no peel instant pot apple butter
  • MEAT
  • ground pork – spring rolls with mint, pork and apple
  • Top Round steak – make mint chimichurri and marinate your steak  easy marinated top round steak.  
  • BREAD – Prairie Grain
  • CHEESE – Pimento (yum!) – souffled macaroni and cheese (calls for pimentos, but put in the cheese!), pimento cheese grilled sandwiches with tomato and bacon
 Posted by Suzi Lilly at 3:41 pm  Tagged with: apples, Capitol Hill, community food systems, CSA, DC, Eastern Market, Farm Shares, Farm to Family, grass-fed dairy, grass-fed meats, local food, produce, recipes, Richmond, RVA, sustainable food

What’s in the Share – Week of 11/14 + 15

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Nov 112017
 

Hi members,

Here’s what is expected to be in the share this coming week:

Produce
cabbage – grill it. Its amazing.
spaghetti squash – how to cook it
butternut squash – butternut squash casserole
potatoes – – Here’s a LOT of different recipes to try
yellow tomatoes – yellow tomato sauce
baby romaine – baby romaine salad with date vinaigrette
collards – It’s time to cook a mess o greens, Vegan Southern Collards
baby bok choy – Stir fry with garlic and bok choy
roma tomatoes – baked tomato and mozzarella stacks with arugula and balsamic vinegar
green onions
apples – Waldorf Salad
fresh pressed cider
apple butter
arugula – Breakfast grilled cheese with arugula
thyme – thyme onion cheese tart
broccoli rabe – olive oil braised broccoli rabe

Fruit
Apples – Vegan apple crisp
Raspberries (maybe but its been below freezing)

Meat
Puff’s Maple Pork BBQ
bacon
Polyface chicken – chicken stuffed potatoes

Cheese
Mt View Mozzarella

Bread
Billy Bread

 Posted by Suzi Lilly at 9:49 pm  Tagged with: apples, arugula, community food systems, CSA, DC, Eastern Market, Farm Shares, Farm to Family, grass-fed dairy, grass-fed meats, local food, produce, recipes, Richmond, RVA, sustainable food, Washington DC

What’s in the Share – Week 2 – Time to reserve your Holiday Polyface Farm Turkey

 CSA Farm Share, CSA/Farm Market, Get Educated, Local Food, Recipes  No Responses »
Oct 072017
 

Welcome to Week 2 of our CSA! This will be the first pickup for our 7th/G Capitol Hill, DC Home Delivery, Farm to Family biweekly, and some of you at Eastern Market. This is week 2 for our Eastern Market and Farm to Family weeklies. Remember you can check your calendar to see when your share is expected by logging into your member dashboard. If you have questions or difficulties on how to do that, let me know.

Polyface turkeys – It’s time to reserve your turkey for the holidays. Turkeys are $5.75/lb and are available in 12-14 lbs, 14-16 lbs, 16-18 lbs and 18-22 lbs.  You can order your turkey and pay $20 deposit thru your dashboards. After ordering, email with TURKEY in the subject and let me know what size range you want, and if you want it Thanksgiving week or before the winter holidays, and we will do our best to match you up. Balance will be due upon delivery (we will email you with balance due amount.) I will also have other holiday meats available: pork, lamb, beef and bison roasts/lamb/leg etc. We can also get oysters/clams. Email me with your interest – HOLIDAY MEATS in subject.

Produce

  • potatoes
  • green onions
  • purple radishes – purple radish salad with cool cilantro honey dressing
  • spicy mix
  • green peppers
  • poblano peppers – grilled stuffed poblanos with bell pepper salsa – try the bacon sausage for this
  • kale – garlicky grilled kale salad with grilled bread
  • napa cabbage – roasted napa cabbage with garlic,  napa cabbage salad/Food + Wine , 
  • swiss chard – sauteed swiss chard with onions, don’t forget to eat your stems!add them to your recipe, or pickle them!
  • chioga beets – These are so pretty!  chioggia beets with raspberry mint vinaigrette
  • spinach – caesar spinach pizza in an hour!  Batsaria – Phylo-less Spanakopita
  • bibb lettuce – spinach and bibb lettuce salad with apples
  • sweet potatoes – sweet potato curry with spinach and chick peas
  • fuji apples – napa cabbage and apple slaw,  fuji apple spice cake
  • raspberries – if available
  • yellow/zucchini squash – skillet bacon zucchini cornbread with buttermilk

Fruit

  • raspberries – if available
  • apples
  • pears

Bread – Prairie Grain

Cheese – Mix from the same dairy as milk and butter

Meat

  • Ground Bison – how to cook grass fed bison,  Here’s a few recipes to try! Don’t use too many condiments,  you want to be able to taste the bison.
  • Bacon Sausage – so baconey! – this is great just cooked or grilled with a few great sides. Use like you would sausage, or bacon!
  • Cubed stew beef – pressure cooker/Instant Pot Vietnamese Bo Kho/beef stew (Nom Nom Paleo)

Yogurt – How to make Greek style, if you prefer a thicker style. Otherwise, its wonderful just as is. You can add fruit, honey, maple syrup or jam to sweeten. Here’s a video on how easy it is. I usually line a strainer with a clean tea towel,  put it in a saucepan and put the lid on it.  You can strain it for a long time, and make yogurt cheese, which you can use in place of cream cheese. Use your left over whey in smoothies, or to ferment veggies with. Pets love it. It is also great to cook with yogurt – I use it to replace sour cream and ricotta cheese in my recipes.

 Posted by Suzi Lilly at 5:40 pm  Tagged with: apples, Capitol Hill, community food systems, CSA, DC, Eastern Market, Farm Shares, Farm to Family, grass-fed dairy, grass-fed meats, local food, Polyface Farms, vegetables
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