Our 2012 CSA Program
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BRING YOUR TABLE CLOSER TO THE FARM
Get to know the farmer who grows your food. This is your opportunity to eat the freshest food you can find for your family—unless it’s in your own backyard. You’ll enjoy commonly loved and seasonably available favorites as well as foods you’ve never tried before. Many of our vegetables are varieties not usually found in the grocer’s produce aisle. We choose them for taste, pest and disease resistance, or other unique characteristics that make them superior to those grown commercially. We grow without chemicals of any kind, even those approved by organic certification programs.
Buying a share in the harvest brings your family’s table closer to the farm. Each share day the farmers pick all that is ready for harvest. Most produce is harvested and washed the same day you come to the farm and then divided into shares. Some share days will be especially bountiful and some may only produce a couple different vegetables or greens—as nature’s seasons give us.
In 2012, we will be changing our “Farm Table” CSA to our new “Garden Gate” CSA program.
THE NEW “GARDEN GATE” CSA PROGRAM FEATURES:
- A share season with a minimum duration of 24 weeks: May through October or so
- A great variety of vegetables
- Fruits may be added through shared stewardship with other local farmers
- Free-range eggs and farm honey for purchase (as available)
- Optional pastured, hormone-free meat and poultry orders from other small farms
- Non-consecutive cottage flowers to pick and take home
- “Mulberry Sheet Shakes” to gather your own berries under the trees
- A monthly newsletter, “Farm Table Report to Shareholders“
- CSA canning equipment and dehydrator for member use
- Large cider press available for members’ ciders and juices
- Member-organized farm events with horse-drawn buggy rides and bonfires in the Gathering Grove
The Karbaumer Farm is grower member of the Kansas City Food Circle and Kansas City CSA Coalition.