NEW! Organic Coffee
From Crop to Cup Coffee Company. Crop to Cup is a NY-based coffee
importer and wholesaler, based in Brooklyn. They work directly with
coffee farmers in Eastern Uganda and have an innovative farmer
community reinvestment program that you can learn about by visiting
their website croptocup.com.
To provide an example of their sustainability program in action, the
bulk coffee purchases from a single co-op customer of C2C last year
(this specific coop is based in New York) resulted in the planting of
1,242 coffee trees to assist growers in building their farming
businesses and achieving higher incomes!
Ordering is easy (all via paypal), and you have two options: 1) Week-to-Week (no commitment, any volume, any time) or 2) Bean Subscription
(any quantity on your preferred schedule). There are several coffee
options, and each coffee is available in whole bean or ground.
To get started, please fill out the membership form by
clicking here
and e-mail it or fax it back to Crop to Cup. Be sure to place your
orders by Sunday evening for Tuesday delivery!
Chubby Bunny Egg Share $80/dozen for 16 weeks.
Unlike many "free range" hens, Chubby Bunny's hens are free ranging on
more than just a dirt yard. Dan and Tracy move them every two to three
weeks to a new location for a steady supply of fresh grass and bugs.
And between moves there's a fence move at least three times to maximize
the amount of grass per hen-house move. In other words, our hens get
grass and bugs all the time (save for the middle of the winter when
they're in the greenhouse.)
Our
hens enjoy the sunshine, the exercise, the fresh air not accorded to
their conventional counterparts. And we feed them well. They receive a
free choice diet of certified organic grain and kelp seaweed. This
ensures not only their health but the health of their eggs. We consider
the eggs medicinal, full of omega three fatty acids and the like. And
no, we don't feed our hens flax seed. Dan tried it and they don't want
it. I guess they know what they want, and are getting it naturally,
from the bugs and grass. In case you didn't know, the color of the
yolks reflects the health of the hens and therefore, the nutrient
content of the eggs. Our eggs have beautiful deep orange yolks. The
darker the yolk....the more nutritious the eggs!
Unfortunately
we have sold out of the number of egg shares we are allotted for the season.
If you would like to add your name to a waiting list, please send a
note along with your membership form and and you will be notified if
more egg shares become available.
Low-Spray Fruit Share - $175 from Hepworth Farms
The fruits, like our vegetables, are seasonal. This year you can expect
a wide variety including, apples, apricots, blueberries,
cherries, currants, gooseberries, grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears,
plumbs, raspberries, rhubarb, and strawberries.
Raw Milk Share - $120
(1/2 gallon) or $180 (gallon) for 24 week from Stone Wall Dairy,
Cornwall Bridge, CT. State licensed raw milk from Jersey cows.
Non-homogenized, non-pasteurized, humane, non-toxic, pasture-based
dairying and small-scale traditional processing.
Back
in the 20s, Americans could buy fresh raw whole milk, real clabber and
buttermilk, luscious naturally yellow butter, fresh farm cheeses and
cream in various colors and thicknesses. Today's milk is accused of
causing everything from allergies to heart disease to cancer, but when
Americans could buy Real Milk, these diseases were rare.
Real
Milk comes from real cows that eat real feed. Real feed for cows is
green grass in spring, summer and fall; green feed, silage, hay and
root vegetables in Winter. It is not soy meal, cottonseed meal or other
commercial feeds, nor is it bakery waste, chicken manure or citrus peel
cake, laced with pesticides. Vital nutrients like vitamins A and D, and
the "Price Factor" (a fat-soluable catalyst that promotes optimum
mineral assimilation) are greatest in milk from cows eating green
grass. Vitamins A and D are greatly diminished, and the Price Factor
disappears, when milk cows are fed commercial feed. Soy meal has the
wrong protein profile for the dairy cow, resulting in a short burst of
high mild production followed by premature death. Most milk )even most
milk labeled "organic") comes from dairy cows that are kept in
confinement their entire lives and never see green grass! For more
information on the benefits of raw milk, check out the Real Milk Web site.
Beef & Pork Natural, grass-fed hormone & antibiotic-free, available for purchase week to week from R and A Cockerline (prices may vary).
You may download a meat order form here.
Allen
and Robin Cockerline have a small beef herd in northwest Connecticut.
We provide dry-aged, cryovac-wrapped, USDA-inspected individual cuts of
beef at both Whippoorwill Farm and their outlet at White Hollow Farm in
Lime Rock, CT.
We
currently have 50 animals on fresh pasture for 3 seasons and winter
over our herd on high quality grass silage and hay. No grain is fed to
our cattle. Salt, kelp meal, and minerals are our only supplements.
While we are not certified organic, our goal is sustainability, as free
from outside inputs as possible.
One
of the key elements of our production is the age and condition of our
animals at harvest. Animals must be in excellent condition and between
24 and 30 months old. This is very important for the development of the
flavor and juiciness of our beef. The flavor is what keeps our
customers coming back. Dry aging for 30 days prior to cutting gives us
an excellent product and cryovac wrapping ensures that it will stay
that way.
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