TurkeyTail Farm CSA
TurkeyTail Farm is offering Fall and Winter Farm Shares, also known as a CSA or Community Supported Agriculture. The TurkeyTail’s CSA offers weekly boxes containing our superior quality pork, lamb and goat, duck, chicken, mushrooms, leafy greens and cut flowers (as well as other goodies from the farm).
What is a CSA?
CSA Stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It is a way for the food-buying public to enter into a relationship with a farm and to receive a share of the harvest. By making a financial commitment to a farm (usually the whole season, but in this case on a three-month basis), people become “members” (or “shareholders,” or “subscribers”) of the CSA.
Why CSA? What Makes CSAs so good?
Cheaper for the Customer!
CSAs are most commonly a vegetable, flower, and/or fruit oriented, providing customers with the seasonal bounty in weekly boxes. When buying a farm share, you the customer reap the benefits of overproduction.
Usually, the CSA enables farmers to finance their operation with the customers’ subscription dues, and in turn the customers share in the risk; the boom and bust of seasonal trends, pests, and plain old luck.
The TurkeyTail CSA is different in that there is no risk for the customer; every week’s share is a full share. In each weeks box we provide a share of lamb, pork, poultry, and/or fowl, to the full dollar amount of your share. The customer receives the best possible price for the food and the ease of mind in knowing how your food was raised and fed.
Better For the Farmers!
Your dollars go directly to the farm and support the economic viability of a small, family farm. By paying for three months’ worth of meat, poultry, and garden goodies up front, you will help us maintain our high standards of feed, animal welfare, and land stewardship.
In addition, the CSA enables the farmer to spend less time marketing, and more time caring for animals and plants. This allows us at TurkeyTail to spend more time growing feed for our livestock (in turn reducing the amount fuel consumed in the production of your food). All this equates to bigger weekly boxes for you.
The TurkeyTail Farm CSA
Our CSA offers the finest quality pasture raised meats. Each month you receive a selection of meats inclusive of our pastured pork, chicken, duck, lamb and goat (optional). Our CSA enables our customers to get wholesale prices without the need to own huge freezer space!
Our CSA features heirloom breeds of poultry, and pork along side exciting treats like Grass-Fed Lamb, Mushroom-Fed Broiler Chickens and Medicinal Mushrooms. A monthly newsletter provides news from the farm, facts and research behind the biology and ecology of grass-fed meats, mushroom-fed poultry, and nutrient-dense farming practices. The newsletter will provide perspective our specialty meats, as well as recipes and preparation tips from local farmers and chefs.
How it works:
A full share is $120 per month ($30 per week) with three-month minimum, for a grand total of $360. Shares delivered to your door (Chico only) or on farm in Yankee Hill.
Each month you receive a box with a diversity of cuts, priced on a flat rate. Pork, lamb, and goat is priced at $8 per pound and chicken is priced at $4.50 per pound. Every monthly share is filled to the full dollar amount. A full share can be split with a friend or feed the family for a month.
Example #1:
3.5 lb pork chops ($28); 2 lb goat steaks ($16); 2 lb pork sausage ($16); three whole chickens at 4.4# each ($60) = $120
Example #2:
one whole chicken ($22); 3.25 lb pork shank ($26); 4 lb lamb chops ($32); 4 lb ground lamb ($32); 1 lb pork sausage ($8)=$120
The Turkeytail CSA is a terrific way to participate in your local foods movement. Directly contribute to the viability of small agriculture while eating nutrient-dense, farm-direct, meats and veggies.
We are a small-scale farm and currently have no CSA shares available. Please email to get on our wait-list. We can also help direct you towards other local ranchers, farmers, and CSA programs in our region.
Contact:
email:cheetah@turkeytailfarm.net
phone: (530) 774-6270
Additional resources:
Read More about Typical CSAs : www.localharvest.com
Read More about Grass-fed Meats: www.eatwild.com
Clark Summit Farm’s Meat Club FAQ: www.clarksummitfarm.com/meatclub.html (An example of a meat-CSA, and a great basis for comparison to our CSA. )