Welcome to Six Farms CSA at Silverbrook Farm
BRINGING LOCAL FARMERS TOGETHER WITH LOCAL CONSUMERS

HOW TO JOIN!
For your local information, click on your community listed below and use the "CLICK HERE TO JOIN" button when you're ready to sign-up!

 

 

 

Providence, RI  Your share delivered right to your door.

About:  Our CSA manager lives in East Providence and will deliver your share to your home.

Start and End dates:  The week of June 24th and the week of October 28th

Delivery Day and Time:  Monday through Friday, late afternoon or early evenings.

Pricing:  By check - Family Share:  $595.00 / Half Share:  $370.00 (includes delivery)

            By Credit Card - Family Share:  $610.00 / Half Share: $380.00 (includes delivery)

Providence is a new location for us, so you cannot sign up through our automated system on the "Click here to join" button above.  Please send us an email with your Name, address, phone number, share size and how you would like to pay.  If you want to pay with a credit card, we will send you an invoice via PayPal. 

ABOUT CSA & BENEFITS OF JOINING
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture (or Community Sustainable Agriculture). In other words, buying locally supports local farms and keeps green open spaces in your town.  A CSA is a collection of consumers that agree to purchase products from a local farm (or group of farms) throughout a season.  Members purchase a “share” of the farm and each week go to the farm to pick-up or, have the product delivered to their town.  It is a creative way to eat locally and reduce your carbon footing!  For the 19 weeks of the CSA you know the farmer that is producing your fruits and vegetables, and how they are being farmed.

Silverbrook Farm is coordinating the Six Farms CSA. We partner with other farms to help provide the freshest, most delicious and diverse products available in our area. 

At the Six Farms CSA you will find old favorites as well as a unique variety of fruits and vegetables that are not usually available in any super market. Now and then we also include, herbs, local cheeses and our own eggs, honey and jams. All produce is freshly harvested on the pick-up day or the day before and displayed in the barn at Silverbrook Farm for your selection. (All shareholders except the Dartmouth location receive their shares carefully boxed in reuseable bins.)

Food is political (a great discussion for your next dinner party). Where you spend your food dollars makes a big difference to our environment and the local scenery. Spending your food dollars at super markets supports farms in California and Mexico. Spending just a fraction of those dollars locally, you support local farms AND keep them from becoming housing developments or strip malls.

Michael Pollen states in his wonderful book, The Omnivores Dilemma, that five calories of petroleum are spent to produce one calorie of food. Most of this expense comes from trucking food long distances, to your table: strawberries from Argentina? Other petro-calories come from pesticides and fertilizers used in conventional agriculture. Buying local and organically grown produce means that you are not only saving local farms but also reducing the effects of excessive petroleum use in agriculture (20% of our nations energy use!). If everyone ate one local meal a week, the USA would save 1.1 million barrels of oil a WEEK!

We promise to share your dollars with other local farms, to label products with the names of the farms they come from and to introduce the farmers to you as the season progresses. The Europeans say “Eat your view” meaning if you want local farms, you need to buy from them. Supporting local farmers means that farms and the means to produce food, will exist in your community. Coming to a farm connects old and young to the concepts of where food comes from, not just from supermarkets .

FARMS THAT ARE INVOLVED
The Farms are in Dartmouth and Westport an are in a 6 mile radius from Silverbrook Farm:

• Allen's Neck Farm - Certified Organic
• Hillside Farm - Conventional Corn Grower
• The King Farm - Sustainable
• Silverbrook Farm - Sustainable
• Shy Brothers Cheese
• Sylvan's Nursery - Sustainable
• Matte's Orchards - Conventional Fruits and Veggies

TYPES OF PRODUCTS YOU CAN EXPECT
We guarantee products that are local, fresh, and unique. You will experience the seasonal harvest of New England. Each week there will be a new mix of vegetables, fruits and herbs that are harvested that day or the day before. You will have the opportunity to try some new and unusually tasty varieties of produce as well as many old favorites.

Depending on the month, you may receive multiple (varieties) of:

Salad Greens (5)	Tomatoes (3)	Heirloom Tomatoes (8)	String Beans (3)	Beets (3)
Peas (2)	Basil (9)	Cucumbers (2)	Peppers (5)	Squash (8)
Pea Tendrils	Leeks	Garlic	Corn	Flowers
Raspberries	Blueberries	Grapes (2)	Herbs	Spinach

Later in the season your share may also include several (varieties) of:

Fingerling Potatoes (3-5)	Onions (2-3)	Winter Squash (3-5)	Asian Pears (3)	Turnips
Macomber Turnips	Broccoli	Carrots	Apples (3)	Parsnips
Melons	Eggplant	Kale & Chard	Peaches	Currants

Click to see approximate amounts included in your share during three selected weeks.

Other Products
Local cheeses, our own eggs, honey, jams, herbs, potted plants and other treats are also available and are occasionally included in the share.

Meat
This year we will once again offer fresh, grass fed, free range meat.  It is hormone and nitrate free, locally raised and vacum packed. It will be available every week by special order at our Dartmouth location only.

 

GIFT CERTIFICATES
Give the gift of fresh, locally grown food. We have certificates for family shares, half shares or a one time gift basket. The baskets contain everything included in that weeks share and are priced at $17.50 and $30.00. They can be redeemed on any Wednesday with a one day notice.

Introduce friends and family to your farmers market!
We sell gift certificates at all the farmers markets we attend, redeemable at any of those markets or at Silverbrook Farm on Wednesdays. Just ask us.

For More Information - Email: Silverbrook.Farm@comcast.net

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