We are sold out of shares for the 2008 season, but you can download the 2008 brochure and signup form here for reference.
Thank you for your interest in a CSA share with Hog’s Back Farm. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and offers a way for people interested in quality food and sustainable food production to be assured of where their food comes from. At Hog’s Back Farm we sell shares of our produce for the season and each week you receive a box overflowing with fresh tasty vegetables at one of our conveniently located pick-up sites.
About Hog’s Back Farm
Our farm is perched on a beautiful ridge in northern Pepin county, overlooking the Chippewa River Valley, between the towns of Plum City and Arkansaw, Wisconsin. We are about 65 miles southeast of St. Paul. We practice organic and sustainable farming methods, without the use of any chemical herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers.
What’s in a Hog’s Back CSA share?
Your share includes over 40 different crops, click here to see a list. Our main season runs for 18 weeks, from June to October. Our veggies are picked at the peak of ripeness, flavor and nutrition, and delivered to your pick up site within hours. Our share comes in a large reusable crate which, depending on the time of year, contains 7 to 25 pounds of produce. This is a good amount for two serious vegetable eaters, or four to six lighter vegetable eaters. If you think a share may be too much food for your household, we encourage you to split a share with a friend, or preserve some of the produce to use in the winter. You also receive our highly regarded weekly newsletter that helps you stay connected to what’s happening on the farm, what’s in your box, and contains a recipe or two. In addition to the vegetables we offer chickens, turkeys, maple syrup, honey, fruit and some organically raised meats for sale from other farms and friends.
This year we again we will be offering our popular winter shares so that you can extend the good eating later into the year. The winter share will consist of 5 deliveries every other week from late October into December. The winter share comes chock-full of storage crops like carrots, potatoes, beets, squash, onions and garlic, as well as cold-hardy crops like spinach, broccoli, cabbage and kale.
We also are offering our chicken shares which consist of 5 deliveries of 2 frozen chickens each. We raise these birds out in the pasture and sunshine on a healthy diet of certified organic feed. Many of our customers feel they are the best chickens they've ever had.
We also encourage members to take part in farm activities, from helping with the harvest and share pick up, to joining us in the fall for our harvest party.
There are risks inherent in a CSA membership. We all share in the ups and downs of a summer in the Upper Midwest. We plant successive plantings of the most important crops so that there is rarely a complete lack of an item, and typically any shortages are offset by the abundance of another crop. Factored in to the cost of a CSA share are things which have no value in the industrial agricultural model. Things like air and water quality, sustainable and organic farming practices, control of soil erosion, macro and micronutrient management, working with nature, rather than against it and sustainability for farm families and rural communities. By joining our CSA you are paying the genuine cost for genuine food and are helping to move us in the direction of a sustainable food system.
Join us!
We are excited about the upcoming season and look forward to growing a wonderful experience for you and your family. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to call or email. We’d love for you to be part of the Hog’s Back Farm family.
- David, Melinda and Iris Van Eeckhout
www.hogsbackfarm.com
