This guide is meant to help you navigate the many and various csa and a la carte offerings of Farm to Folk and to acquaint you with the procedure for distribution.
How to pick up your food each week:
When you come to pick up your share(s) there will be a separate check in sheet by each share. Find your name on the sheet and check off for that day. You will do this for each of the shares you have purchased. After checking in, go along the table and pick up the designated amount of produce. The amounts will be written on "sticky notes" by each item. If you have a question about what an item is, how much of it you are supposed to take or how to use it at home, ask Corry, Deb or Marilyn.
If you find there is something you don’t like or can’t use please pick it up anyway and take it to the “sharing table”. At the sharing table you can leave items you don’t want and pickup extra items that you do want. You don’t have to leave something in order to take something. It is a way to share with other members of Farm to Folk. If you have too much of some kind of produce at home, it is also okay to bring that and put it on the sharing table through the summer. Some people bring flowers to share also.
If you are going to miss distribution, you can have someone else pick up your shares/a la carte items. We will help to get them oriented to pick up for you. Food that is not picked up will be delivered to the Bethesda Food Pantry each week.
A la Carte pickup: This will be in an area separate from the shares. Look for the sign or ask Corry, Marilyn, or Deb where to pick up your items. Marilyn and Sue bag each vegetable order ahead of distribution and label it with a ticket listing your name and your account balance. Be sure to check your ticket to see all you ordered. Milk, ice cream, meat, bread and grains will not be in the bag with your produce and need to be picked up when you come.
Recycling and What Do I Carry My Food
Home In?
We appreciate it when you bring your own bags or boxes to carry home your food.
We try to keep bags on hand for those times you forget. Some farmers supply boxes for you to use all season. Some of us just keep these in the car so we have them each week.
If you have bags you want to recycle we can use them. Also the farmers all appreciate it when you bring back the small cardboard or plastic boxes and baskets that they use for fruit or tomatoes. Egg cartons also can be brought in.
How do I find out what I will get
each week?
A newsletter will be posted on the website each Friday morning. It will have important announcements, a list of what you will receive in your share the next Tuesday, news from the farms and recipes from members or recipe sources. If you have news you would like other members to know send it to Deb at deb@farmtofolk.com . Also recipes are always needed. We especially like the ones that use what is in season at that time, but others are also used.
The newsletter is always formatted so you can read the whole thing in 5 minutes or less. That's how to find out if we've changed the location of the distribution or changed the day due to a holiday! Stay informed!
Many other questions can be answered by reading the information on the website. If you need additional help email Deb or Marilyn, we'd be glad to help.
These are the producers offering CSA
shares:
Small Potatoes Farm (SPF)
They are providing veggie shares, greens shares and an extended share for 2008.
He is providing a veggie share for 2008.
They are providing regular and super fruit shares for 2008.
Picket Fence Creamery (PFC) Jeff, Jill, Jenna and James Burkhart
They are providing dairy shares for 2008.
These are the producers that offer
their products through the a la carte system:
Small Potatoes Farm
Picket Fence Creamery
Onion Creek Farm—Joe Lynch and Lonna Nachtigal
Paul’s Grains—Steve and Teresa Paul
Their available items will be listed on our website “what’s available this week” page. This page is updated weekly and an email notice sent out to all members when it is updated. Place your orders to marilyn@farmtofolk.com and the cost of the order will be deducted from your a la carte account. If you don’t have an a la carte account and want to place an order, email Marilyn to get that set up.
Producers who sell directly:
The following producers also offer their products on an ala carte basis. For these producers, please order directly to them and pay them directly. Information on their delivery schedules will be on the website. They are not at distribution every week.
Grains of Wisdom Bakery—Bill and
Wallace Farms—
Audubon County Farms—Cindy Madsen vcmadsen@metc.net
We are glad to serve you and look forward to a great season!
Marilyn, Corry and Deb