Summer Share (mid-June - September)
Mixed Summer Share (mid - June-September)
Fall Share (October - November)
Winter Share (December - January)
Chicken Share (July - November)
Fish Shares (Salmon or Mixed) (December - January)
In 2012 we are offering eight seasonal farm shares: Summer Share,Mixed Summer Share, Fall Share, Winter Share, Summer Chicken Share, Fall Chicken Share, Salmon Share, and Mixed Fish Share. Deliveries begin in mid-June with our Summer Share and continue through January with our Winter Share. Below you will find a description of each share, including prices. Each share is sold separately. If you have further questions about our farm shares, please contact us at lafinca@earthlink.net. Happy Eating!
Our Summer Share deliveries begin in mid-June and continue for 17 weeks through September. Each week you can expect to receive a medium size box (about the size of a full paper grocery bag) containing a variety of 6 to 12 fresh, certified organic vegetables, fruit, and herbs. Our crops are hand-harvested and cleaned in our packing facility. Extra care is taken to provide you with a neatly packed box. To conserve resources, we ask our members to return their boxes when picking up their weekly share.
Each year we plant over 50 different vegetables, herbs, and fruit for our CSA members. Our offerings are dynamic-always changing based on the feedback of CSA members and the results of trials with new crops. Salad mix, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, broccoli, spinach, carrots, and basil are just some of the perennial favorites. You'll also receive less familiar veggies such as, parsnips, rutabagas, Hakurei turnips, new tomato varieties, and others. Members often comment that their membership in our CSA encourages them to eat healthier by increasing the amount of vegetables in their diet.
Below is a sampling of 3 different boxes from a recent CSA season to give you a better idea of what is included in our summer share:
Early Season: salad mix (8 oz.), broccoli (1 lb.), spinach (8 oz.), strawberries (1 pint), scallions (1 bunch), green leaf lettuce (1-2 heads), kohlrabi (1), garlic scapes (4 oz.) or beet greens (1 bunch) and bok choi (1 large).
Mid-Season: salad mix (6oz.), blueberries (1 pint), cucumbers (2), summer squash (3), onions (3), garlic (1), green top carrots(1 bunch), tomatoes (1 pint cherry, 2 lbs. slicers), peppers (2),turnips (1 bunch), arugula (1 bunch), green beans (.75 - 1 lb.), swiss chard (1 bunch)
Late-Season: tomatoes (3 lbs. slicers), winter squash (3), parsnips (1-2 lbs.), yellow or red onions (3), garlic (1)green top carrots (1 bunch), leeks (1 1b.), broccoli (1-2 lbs.), red leaf lettuce (1 head), mustard greens (1 bunch), potatoes (2 lbs.)and spinach (1 bunch).
A weekly newsletter included with your share provides recipes and other helpful tips for using your food, and keeps you informed of the latest news from La Finca. CSA members are invited to the farm in early May for a spring planting day and pancake brunch. The last weekend in September is the date for our harvest potluck/workday here at La Finca. These are great opportunities to meet and visit with fellow CSA members and farmers, participate in a work project, and become acquainted with the land where your food is grown.
The freshness, flavor, and variety of our summer share is outstanding!
Summer Share is $545.00.
This is our Summer Share with the addition of 10 weeks of organic or pesticide-free fruit from Minnesota and Wisconsin. This year we are planning to offer apples, pears, blueberries, strawberries, and melons. You can expect one to two varieties of fruit in any given week when fruit is delivered with your Summer Share. The fruit for your shares will be packed in the same box as your Summer Share veggies for convenient pick up.
Mixed Summer Share (Veggies and Fruit) is $695
This share contains the best of the fall crops with an emphasis on vegetables that can be stored throughout the early winter and hoophouse grown salad greens. You can expect potatoes, carrots, beets, turnips, rutabagas, parsnips, celeriac, onions, garlic, leeks, winter radishes, winter squash, cabbage, kale, asian greens, salad greens, and more. Included in the Fall Share are three deliveries of certified organic apples from our neighbors at Oak Lake Orchard. Varieties you may receive in these deliveried are: Zestar, Haralred, Honeycrisp, SweeTango, Reb Baron, and Chestnut Crab. Since many of these veggies store well, the fall share is a great way to extend the CSA season into the late fall. The fall share consists of four deliveries; each delivery will be the equivalent of 2 full grocery bags, or approximately double the size of our traditional CSA box.
Fall Share is $255
Our chickens are raised outdoors in moveable hoophouses. As they range across our fallow vegetable fields, the chickens have access to our locally milled chicken feed and fresh water. Unlike chickens raised in confinement, our chickens spend their days pecking away at various plant species and insects, taking dust baths, or resting in the shade. Their high quality diet coupled with time they spend ranging in our fields produces an exceptionally flavorful bird.
We raise a breed called Cornish Cross from day old chicks to nine weeks of age. The chickens are then transported to a state inspected processing plant in Brainerd where they are cleaned, vacuum packed, and flash frozen. The chicken share consists of 6 frozen chickens, which are delivered in 4 installments during the course of the CSA season. The tentative dates for the summer chicken share delivery are 7/30, 8/30, 9/15, and 10/01; each delivery includes 3 frozen chicken halves weighing 6-9 lbs.
If freezer space is not an issue, and you prefer to receive your chickens later in the season, we will be offering a fall chicken share consisting of 6 whole chickens (12 halves are also available). A staggered delivery through January is also available with the Fall Chicken Share. The tentative delivery date for the fall chicken share is 11/21.
Summer Chicken Share is $125.00
Fall Chicken Share is $125.00.
This share contains many of your favorite veggies - broccoli, green beans. peppers, spinach, snap peas, whole tomatoes, carrots, summer squash, winter squash, cooking greens, as well as prepared foods (four hearty veggie soups, bean soups, and tomato/basil pasta sauce). Frozen berries will also be included in your Winter Share. Veggies for the winter share are harvested and cleaned at La Finca at their peak of freshness, blanched, cooled and drained, packaged, sealed, and frozen for delivery in December and January. We also include cooking tips as well as recipes with each delivery. This is an especially attractive share because the veggies have already been cleaned and cut - ready for your favorite winter recipe!
A typical winter share delivery will contain approximately 12 items. Delivery will be every other week from early December through the middle of January for a total of 5 boxes.
Winter Share is $300.00.
The Salmon Share consists of beautiful sockeye salmon from a family-run commercial fishing business based in Cushing, MN. The Pietrons have been commercial fishermen for 30 years and their salmon is caught in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The wild caught salmon is flash frozen and vacuum sealed in approximately 3/4 lb. packages. Delivery will be in early December at our regular Pick Up Site locations, or choose a staggered delivery in December and January.
Salmon Share is $119 (10 lbs.) or $175 (15 lbs.)
The Mixed Fish Share is a combination of of wild caught sockeye salmon from the Pietron family, as well as Lake Superior lake trout and whitefish. All three species of fish are flash frozen and vacuum packed in approximately 3/4 lb. packages. The lake trout and whitefish are sourced from the Bodin Fisheries, a family operated fishery that has been in operation for four generations. The Mixed Fish Share will be delivered in early December at our regular Pick Up Site locations, or choose a staggered delivery in December and January.
Mixed Fish Share is $123 (15 lbs.) or $153 (20 lbs.)
Share prices do not include the cost of delivery to our Pick Up Sites. Please see #5 on our registration form for more details.
Please see What We Grow for a complete list of vegetables or prepared items included in each share
Certified Organic
After 6 years of growing organically, La Finca became a certified organic farm in 2007. Organic Certification verifies our participation in the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP), which sets organic farming standards for farms in the USA. As a certified organic farm, we are required to document our adherence to organic farming practices and are inspected annually by an independent party. Organic Certification is an assurance to our CSA members (beyond our honest faces!) that the food we produce is truly organic.
La Finca is certified organic by International Certification Services (ICS) based in Medina, North Dakota
