Thank you for your interest in August’s Harvest Community Shared Agriculture program.
August’s Harvest program gives you the opportunity to experience
Local, Fresh, Organic
vegetables grown on and around our farm throughout the harvest season.
- Once a week you will recieve your share of fresh, local, organic and nutritious produce. We will deliver your share to a central pick up location in your area each week. (See the pickup locations page for more information on the locations in your area.)
- You will receive a weekly letter with information about the farm, produce, recipes. You will recieve a master copy on storage tips for how to best store your produce.
- You can purchase additional local farm items such as eggs, milk, meats, cheeses, honey, maple syrup, preserves and pies.
- Many of last year’s members felt that by automatically receiving fresh produce each week encouraged them to make healthier food choices.
- You reduce everyone’s carbon “footprint”, by choosing lower local “food miles”. The average food mile is over 4000 km the average foodmile for our CSA is under 100 km.
- This choice improves our surrounding environment by supporting sustainable food production thereby reducing pesticides and chemicals in the environment.
- Your choice supports our local farm and economy and helps protect the surrounding farm land.
- You will be able to try new vegetables that are not typically seen in grocery stores.
Details on the program:
- Program runs for 18 weeks from June 15 – Thanksgiving
- Deadline to register is May 1st, 2011
- Deliveries are made either Wednesday or Thursday to a central pickup location and you will be required to pickup your bin each week
- All the produce that we supply through the CSA is Certified Organic or naturally grown (no chemical use at all!)
- The large majority of produce of the CSA comes from our farm. We do however work with other local organic farms to make up any gaps in our CSA, this will help to ensure you get the best quality and value. (for example we will be rely on other local organic farm for their expertise in growing some more challenging items such as broccoli, cauliflower and apples)
- In a cost comparison we went and purchased the equivalent of the regular share basket at Zehrs and the cost came out to $42.57 our basket cost is $38.50 for this size share. There were 7 organic items and 3 convential items (for lack of the organic version). The basket included romaine lettuce, leaf lettuce, eggplant, red potatoes, apples, cauliflower, carrots, peppers, tomatoes & parsley.
Please click on the following link 2011 CSA Brochure to view a copy of our brochure.
Please click on the following link for a copy of our application form Augusts Harvest CSA Application Form
If you are interested in signing up or have any questions please email, fax or call.
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If you are interested in receiving information on having a group/company delivery please contact us for more information.
If you have more questions on the program or would like to come out and meet us, we will be holding drop in sessions at the following locations near you;
Waterloo - Tuesday April 12, 2011 – 6:00-7:30pm – at the Delesie Residence - 739 Grandbanks Drive Waterloo
(Please note the Waterloo presentation that was scheduled for the Kitchener City Hall for Monday April 11 has been moved to Tuesday April 12 and being held at the 739 Grandbanks Dr location for greater convenience.)
London - Wednesday April 13, 2011 – 6:00-7:30pm – at the Landon Library - 167 Wortley Road London
Stratford - Thursday April 14, 2011 – 6:00-7:30pm – at the Kiwanis Centre - 111 Lakeside Drive
Sincerely,
Warren Ham, Teresa Neshaw & Britney Nurse
August’s Harvest Inc
csa@augustsharvest.com
Phone 519-393-5550
Fax 519-393-5556
We use natural, sustainable agricultural practices and are a certified organic farm.
For more information check out the “Frequently Asked Questions” sections and “Reasons to Join a CSA” found on the left hand tab under About our CSA also visit the “Crops” tab for a list of items you will see in your basket and photo’s.
Registrations is available now for the 2011 season.
