“Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what’s on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don’t buy industrial meat. At home, I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.” —Michael Pollan
Heritage MeatShare CSA
Why our Tamworth pork tastes better…
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Email for more information about our 2012 Heritage MeatShare CSA —we’ll raise your dinner for you! We offer naturally raised heritage Shropshire lamb, pastured heritage Tamworth pork, pastured chicken and grass fed Angus beef.
Why Eat Heritage? Let’s use pork as an example. Commercial factory-farmed pigs are confined indoors, and have been bred to produce very lean meat that is often dry and fairly tasteless. Heritage breeds have more intramuscular marbling of fat, which makes for moist olde-fashioned flavour. Our pigs are raised outdoors on pasture, free to root, play, wallow and explore which means happier, healthier animals. They grow more slowly, more naturally. By choosing them, you are also helping to conserve heritage breeds because more small farmers will continue to raise them, increase their numbers and conserve their rare genetics. This also applies to our Shropshire sheep and all heritage breed livestock. 
NEWS: Tamworth on Slow Food Ark of Taste!
Where To Buy? You won’t find Heritage Tamworth pork in supermarkets, or Shropshire lamb or Jersey Giant chickens, so your best bet is to find a local farmer—now you’ve found one! Our farm is between Hastings and Campbellford, close to Warkworth, Norwood, Havelock, Roseneath, and Alderville, in Trent Hills (Northumberland County, Ontario).
All About Wholearth Heritage MeatShare CSA
- Slow Food…Good Food…Real Food from Wholearth
- What’s a MeatShare?
- When Will I Receive my MeatShares?
- How Much Will Fit In My Freezer?
- CSA & Wholearth Membership
- Costs At A Glance
- Payment Options
Slow Food…Good Food…Real Food from Wholearth
Your Food—Your Farm
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 naturally raised pastured Heritage meats, and free ranging, pastured Jersey Giant and White Rock Cross chickens.
Consider us YOUR FARM ..come see where your food grows, feed the chickens that lay your eggs. 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 (like Angus beef) from other local farms and producers. We are dedicated to better food for the greater Trent Hills, Peterborough and Northumberland areas.
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!
Like to become a Wholearth CSA HarvestShareholder? Just Register by email or call *705-696-2556 *
What’s a MeatShare?
Taste the tradition of farm raised flavour! ™ If you have never tried these meats you will be amazed at the succulence—enjoy a taste experience you’ll never find in the supermarket. All our animals are raised naturally and slowly with care & NO antibiotics, meat-based proteins, growth hormones, synthetics or artificial additives. We raise the pastured chicken, lamb and pork all here and the Angus beef is from a local organic beef farm (Compare our farmgate prices of individual cuts with those of your local health food store, Cumbrae’s, Butcher By Nature, Culinarium, the Healthy Butcher or Rowe Meats.)??
Heritage MeatShare
$540. One Heritage MeatShare—no less than 60 pounds ($9.00/lb)
$1080. Double Heritage MeatShare—no less than 120 pounds ($9.00/lb) Save with Two—Free deliveries with double order (usually $20 per delivery)
You’ll receive naturally raised, prime quality government-inspected heritage meats vacuum sealed for freshness, ready for your freezer (One share requires about 3.5 cubic feet of space). Your Heritage MeatShare includes:
HERITAGE TAMWORTH PORK
• 11 lbs — Our Traditional Heritage Tamworth pork is juicier, more succulent, tender, richer, more marbled and fuller tasting…nothing like intensively raised, commercial pork. Once you try this pork with old-fashioned flavour, you’ll taste why it has a place on the Slow Foods Ark of Taste list, and is growing in popularity among chefs everywhere. Includes 4 extra thick 1.25” BBQ ready juicy butt and loin chops, a 3-4 lb shoulder or blade (butt) roast, side ribs or pork hocks & 3 lbs lean ground pork. If we ever need to substitute an item, it will be with a cut of greater value (for example our delicious smoked ham steak or one-of-a-kind sausage) and/or total weight will be over 11lbs.
HERITAGE SHROPSHIRE LAMB
• 11 lbs — Shropshire lamb is savoured by food connoisseurs who appreciate their exceptional flavour. Choosing Wholearth Heritage Shropshire lamb ensures a future for this superb breed, whose long history of excellence dates back to the 18th century. Includes extra thick 2” succulent loin and shoulder chops, a 2-3 lb leg o’ lamb roast, 5 lbs chunky lamb kabobs for skewers or stew, shank & ground lamb (try an authentic Shepherd’s Pie with this). If we ever need to substitute an item, it will be with a cut of greater value (for example rack of lamb) and/or total weight will be over 11lbs.
HERITAGE ANGUS BEEF
• 16 lbs— Grass-fed, grain-finished organic Angus beef from our neighbour’s farm—we taste tested a selection of various steaks and roasts from several local beef farms until we tasted this Angus, and looked no further. You’ll receive juicy extra thick 1.25” BBQ ready steaks, a 3-4 lb roast, 2 lbs beef kabobs for skewers or stew, and 5 lbs ground beef. If we ever need to substitute an item, it will be with a cut of greater value (for example short ribs) and/or total weight will be over 16lbs.
ALL NATURAL PASTURED CHICKEN
• 22 lbs—(4 to 6 whole chickens between 4 and 6 lbs each) Oven-ready, free-range all natural chicken raised slowly on pasture, ensuring exceptional flavour & firmness. We do not feed medicated starter to our poultry as large scale commercial producers do.
The shares below can be picked up at the farm, or arrive at your door ready to fill your freezer with a $20. per delivery charge, FREE DELIVERY if you order the Double Heriage MeatShare.
How & When Will I Receive my MeatShares?
PICK-UP We encourage you to pick up your MeatShares at the farm. You’ll enjoy the beautiful countryside on the drive up, have the opportunity to get to know your farm, learn a little about what we do and see how we’re raising your food, and walk in the fields and woods if you like.
DELIVERY If you prefer, we deliver in Toronto as different items are ready, to your door for $20. per delivery. Your share is split up into in 3 or 4 deliveries (depending on your freezer space and when items are ready). For example, if you received a delivery in April and your freezer is still full you could wait and get your next one in June instead of May. The next Toronto and area delivery is scheduled for mid to end of February.
We email everyone prior to each delivery, and most shareholders requesting door-to-door delivery leave out a cooler with ice pack. If that is not an option (apt or condo) we arrange best time with you individually. Some even accept their shares at their workplace.
Various items mature at different times, and we’ll do our best to make sure you have a variety but it’s not always possible, so you may at times receive all your chicken or beef at once.
ORDER EARLY IN THE YEAR Plan ahead, calculate how much meat your household wishes over the year, so you’ll be sure to have this years in the freezer for next winter, spring and summer when your next years are growing. If you would like a second and third MeatShare with just chicken, that’s fine too, but we’ll need to know when starting our chicks.
Like to become a Wholearth CSA HarvestShareholder? Just Register by email or call 705-696-2556
How Much Will Fit in My Freezer?
Generally an average size fridge top freezer can easily accommodate a delivery with room left over. One cubic foot of freezer space will hold approximately 25 to 30 pounds of meat. This is about half of the freezer above an average refrigerator.
One Heritage MeatShare
$540. (picked up at farm)
$560. ($540. + 2x delivery)
$580. ($540. + 3x delivery)
Full payment or 2 post-dated cheques, via Interac online banking, cash or cheque
Double Heritage MeatShare
$1080. (up to 3 FREE deliveries (save $60.)
Delivered door to door to Trent Hills, Northumberland County, Peterborough, Kawarthas; Markham, Toronto, East End/Beaches, Downtown, and Queen West/Parkdale/High Park areas
Full payment or 2 post-dated cheques, Interac online banking or cash
CSA & Wholearth Membership
Included in your MeatShareholder membership is the following:
- Membership to Wholearth Farmstudio
- 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 local chefs - Receive 5% off any on-farm additional meat purchases
- Earn right of first refusal on membership renewal (no waiting list for shareholders)
- Receive priority ranking for reserving limited special products such as Easter smoked Tamworth hams, Christmas geese, heritage turkeys, and pastured ducks
- Our administrative, email & phone time, order prep, and related costs associated with running the CSA
- 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!
Payment Options
Contact us by email and we’ll confirm your membership and order.
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, Hastings, Ontario K0L 1Y0
For more information, please contact us by email or Telephone: 705.696.2556
Thank-you for considering joining our farm CSA. We have a long list of folks who are very happy with the products we offer, and receive comments such as “…loving our food so far. We have tried almost everything and couldn’t be more pleased.” As a very small scale farm, our shareholder’s payment goes directly to the various expenses involved in feeding and caring for the animals which we are raising for our shareholder’s—maintaining breeding animals, feed, bedding, housing, hydro, infrastructure, equipment, fencing, repairs, transportation, abattoir, administration, labour, packaging, etc. Therefore we are not able to offer cash refunds in the event a shareholder changes their mind once in the program, however we will gladly transfer your MeatShare to another person or household if you so choose.
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.