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“Find your place on the planet and dig in.” —Gary Snyder

HarvestShare CSA

Know Your Food, Know Your Farmer

Sign up for our 2010 HarvestShare CSA and enjoy fresher, tastier, healthier local food on your table. Choose a GardenShare for organic vegetables, and Heritage MeatShare for natural, pasture raised meats.

CELEBRATE FOOD
When you Join Wholearth Farmstudio as a CSA ShareHolder you may find much more than a local source of fresh, quality food. Members keep agriculture close to home by supporting a local food system that helps to foster a vibrant health conscious community. Finding your own farmer and joining a CSA creates a genuine connection between the land, your home and family, and your food.

There are even more great benefits to being a CSA & Wholearth Member, and HarvestShareholder space is limited, so don’t wait too long if you’d like to join the farm.

Slow Food…Good Food…Real Food from Wholearth

If you’ve been thinking more about the provenance and sacredness of food; whether to trust the giant supermarkets with your food security; re-connecting with the earth; sustainability; supporting small local farmers rather than corporate-owned factory farms, then becoming a Wholearth Farm HarvestShareholder might be for you.

A Wholearth HarvestShare operates similarly to most CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture), by offering advance shares to it’s members. Our shares are made up of pesticide-free vegetables (GardenShare), fresh eggs, preserves, honey, flowers and naturally raised Heritage meats (Heritage MeatShare).

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All About Wholearth HarvestShare CSA

Local Northumberland Farm Food

Joining a local CSA is also a wonderful way to build community while caring for the environment. You’ll connect with other shareholders in your area…if you’d like the option of alternating pick-ups, each shareholder could take turns picking up orders and result in reduced carbon miles usage. For instance, if you are coming from Warkworth, you might wish to pick up 4 other shareholders baskets, then one of them will return the favour the following week.

Our whole region is rich with agriculture yet it’s difficult to access a steady supply of food that is fresh and naturally raised. Our supermarkets are still stocking items that have travelled thousands of miles before they get to your plate! Buying locally ensures superior freshness, quality, and supports sustainable earth-friendly practices as well as the local economy. Wholearth provides it’s shareholders with farm-raised produce and meats grown here on our farm, with additional items from other local farms. We are dedicated to better food for the greater Trent Hills, Peterborough and Northumberland areas.

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How Does the HarvestShare CSA work?

When you prepurchase a “share” of the farm’s harvest at the beginning of the season, you share the bounty and share the risks inherent in agriculture. You pledge to support the farm, and in return, the farm pledges to provide a variety of Slow Food…Good Food…Real Food from Wholearth ™. You’ll gain a closer connection to the land that grows your food, and to the farmer who grows it. It enables your farmer to plan their season, encourages sound, sustainable farming practices and supports organic local food production and your commitment to a 100-mile diet. By buying directly from “your” farm, food traceability is clear, and you’ll see and share in conscientious care of the animals and love of the land on every visit. It’s also a way to eat healthy natural food affordably and enjoy your farmer’s delicious, fresh, nutritious produce throughout the season!

Locavores
Our CSA membership is perfect for “locavores” in Trent Hills, Northumberland, Hastings, Campbellford, Warkworth, Stirling, Norwood, Havelock, Kawarthas, Peterborough and vicinity…very few carbon miles! When you visit the farm you will experience what is involved in growing god food for your table.

Cottagers
Have a cottage in the area? Perfect! Pick up your share on the way to or from your weekend getaway and you’ll be feasting—no need to spend your precious weekend time at the supermarket. Mmmnnn….just think, you’ll be brunching on the freshest of fresh eggs!

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Kind Words from a Member

The 2009 growing season is now over, and we are left with a winter’s stash of squash, garlic, potatoes, beets, sweet potatoes, onions and a few nice notes from happy shareholders. One sent us a card and gift saying: “A very small token to say thank-you. My husband and I enjoyed our experience this year so much. Words cannot describe how much we appreciate all the hard work it was for you to bring supper to our table every week. Please accept our heartfelt thanks!” Growing food is hard work, and this sort of recognition makes all our labours well worth while! Thank-you for choosing us…

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CSA & Wholearth Membership

Jersey Giant rooster Wholearth Membership is included when you sign up for any combination of MeatShares or GardenShares with a minimum yearly total of $725. If you would like to purchase a smaller amount, membership is an additional $36. Your membership includes:

  • Help yourself to pick-your-own herbs and flowers and beans at the farm
  • 15% membership discount & advance priority registration to our all Wholearth events, dinners and workshops such as the Wholearth Heritage Harvest Feast with chef Jamie Kennedy & fabulous local chefs
  • Receive 5% off any on-farm meat purchases
  • A portion of each shareholder fee goes towards donating a number of CareShare CSA Baskets —fresh weekly veggies free of charge tor a few local families in need
  • Earn right of first refusal on membership renewal (no waiting list for shareholders)
  • Receive priority ranking for reserving limited special products such as Christmas geese, heritage turkeys, and pastured ducks
  • Our administrative, email & phone time, order prep, and related costs associated with running the CSA
  • E-Newsletter with farm news, recipes and CSA related activities
  • Assured availability of farm products for you and your family—as a shareholder member you know we’ll never be sold out of your favourite dinner. We’re growing it just for you!

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Payment Options

Like to become a Wholearth CSA HarvestShareholder? Just Register by email or call 705-696-2556

Interac Email Money Transfer. It’s an easy, instant and secure way to send and receive money directly from one bank account to another. If you bank online, you can send your payment to us via email—without sharing any personal or financial information. Email us your order and we’ll send you a password to use. Then log online to your own bank and the rest is easy.

Cheques payable to: Montana Jones, #RR2, 143 Concession Rd 14, Hastings, Ontario K0L 1Y0

For more information, please contact us by email or Telephone: 705.696.2556

We are dedicated to sustainability principles & non-toxic practices for the health of people, animals, the soil & the planet. Our heritage breed livestock & heirloom fruits & vegetables are kindly & conscientiously grown using all natural methods. We do NOT use synthetics, growth hormones, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, confinement, or antibiotics (except to treat illness when natural methods unsuccessful, however those cases would then never be marketed as a Wholearth product.) Our animals are raised with care, free-ranging access outdoors to grassy meadows & pastures, & indoors to comfortable shelter, enjoying & employing the sun & rain & breeze naturally.

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