Winter Bread CSA
For those not familiar with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), it is a way of
connecting a citizen to their local food source whether it be vegetables, grains, or in our case
bread. A CSA is set up in order to provide a farmer with the necessary capital at the start of
a growing season, which is provided by the members of the CSA. This provides a measure
of security for the farmer, both monetary and as a dispersion of risk among the members.
The farm's customers receive, in addition to their produce, the satisfaction of supporting a
small farm, thus ensuring that the farm's intangible benefits to soil, water, health and
community endure.
The need for a CSA is less well-established for baked goods than for vegetable farms. Like
vegetable farmers, grain farmers must invest money and labor well in advance of the harvest.
Since we grow primarily winter wheat, this investment takes place in the fall. So it's
appropriate to begin the program when our need for cropping capital is greatest. Since
everything we bake for the the CSA program is pre-ordered, this helps ensure that every loaf
we bake ends up on the table of someone who will enjoy it.
Our bakery and farm are two parts of a whole. The CSA program allows us to underwrite
expansion of our horse-drawn cropping as we seek to provide more kinds and larger
quantities of our own staple ingredients from our own land. The farming we engage in is
solar-powered cropping for the future. That is to say, whatever transpires with the prices of
gas and feed, or the cost of trucking, we will still be here, ready to provide the staff of life for
perhaps a hundred local families, summer and winter.
connecting a citizen to their local food source whether it be vegetables, grains, or in our case
bread. A CSA is set up in order to provide a farmer with the necessary capital at the start of
a growing season, which is provided by the members of the CSA. This provides a measure
of security for the farmer, both monetary and as a dispersion of risk among the members.
The farm's customers receive, in addition to their produce, the satisfaction of supporting a
small farm, thus ensuring that the farm's intangible benefits to soil, water, health and
community endure.
The need for a CSA is less well-established for baked goods than for vegetable farms. Like
vegetable farmers, grain farmers must invest money and labor well in advance of the harvest.
Since we grow primarily winter wheat, this investment takes place in the fall. So it's
appropriate to begin the program when our need for cropping capital is greatest. Since
everything we bake for the the CSA program is pre-ordered, this helps ensure that every loaf
we bake ends up on the table of someone who will enjoy it.
Our bakery and farm are two parts of a whole. The CSA program allows us to underwrite
expansion of our horse-drawn cropping as we seek to provide more kinds and larger
quantities of our own staple ingredients from our own land. The farming we engage in is
solar-powered cropping for the future. That is to say, whatever transpires with the prices of
gas and feed, or the cost of trucking, we will still be here, ready to provide the staff of life for
perhaps a hundred local families, summer and winter.
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Shares run for 26 weeks, from the first week in November until May.
Half Share: $183.00
Full Share: $338.00
Pick-up Locations:
Each week you can choose from a Batard, Pain au Levain, Multi-Grain Batard and Baker's Choice.
The Baker's Choice loaf varies each week with breads like Sunflower, Whole Wheat Oat, Olive Chiabatta,
Normandy Apple Bread, Semolina Bread, Cranberry-Raisin Walnut, Cinnamon-Raisin and whatever else we can
dream up!
The desserts will also rotate each week, such as: Cherry Pie, Almond Biscotti, Chocolate Bread Pudding, Carrot
Cake, Panettone, Croissants, Danish and more!
Half Share: $183.00
Full Share: $338.00
Pick-up Locations:
Each week you can choose from a Batard, Pain au Levain, Multi-Grain Batard and Baker's Choice.
The Baker's Choice loaf varies each week with breads like Sunflower, Whole Wheat Oat, Olive Chiabatta,
Normandy Apple Bread, Semolina Bread, Cranberry-Raisin Walnut, Cinnamon-Raisin and whatever else we can
dream up!
The desserts will also rotate each week, such as: Cherry Pie, Almond Biscotti, Chocolate Bread Pudding, Carrot
Cake, Panettone, Croissants, Danish and more!
What is a Bread CSA?
How does it work?
One loaf per week and a pastry or dessert offering.
This feeds one person or two with modest appetite.
This feeds one person or two with modest appetite.
Two loaves per week and a pastry or dessert offering.
This feeds a family of three or four.
This feeds a family of three or four.
We cannot offer refunds for loaves not picked up but we can hold and freeze your order given timely notice. Also,
we allow you to change your "standby loaf" at any time and to order additional loaves or pastries to be delivered with
your order. Charges for add-ons would be billed monthly, by mail.
we allow you to change your "standby loaf" at any time and to order additional loaves or pastries to be delivered with
your order. Charges for add-ons would be billed monthly, by mail.
Our ingredients are procured from the following sources, from most preferred to least preferred: our own, our
neighbor's, regional organic, national organic, conventional. So though the apples in our pies, for instance, might
come from Champlain Orchards in Shoreham rather than our own fields, your share still supports local agriculture. In
practice, if there is no way for us to make a recipe with primarily local ingredients, we will make something else
instead!
neighbor's, regional organic, national organic, conventional. So though the apples in our pies, for instance, might
come from Champlain Orchards in Shoreham rather than our own fields, your share still supports local agriculture. In
practice, if there is no way for us to make a recipe with primarily local ingredients, we will make something else
instead!
We offer three convenient pick-up locations here at the farm in Vergennes,
at the Quarry Hill School East of Middlebury, and at the Ten Stones
Co-Housing in Charlotte.
at the Quarry Hill School East of Middlebury, and at the Ten Stones
Co-Housing in Charlotte.
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