The first week of CSA online ordering is here! There are lots of tasty spring veggies going out in the CSA shares this week. Webshop opens Sunday evening and closes Wednesday at 8PM. Make sure you get your veggies / meat / eggs ordered for next weekend pickup.
JOINING FORCES
Bringing you not only local sustainable veggies, but now meat too!
Now you can round out your weekly CSA box by adding locally grown, sustainable meat. I'm so excited that Earl from Hampton Ridge will be offering a CSA meat box each week for pickup at the Covington farmers market. Here's a little bit about our new partner.
For over 10 years now, we at Hampton Ridge Farm have been dedicated to regenerative practices of agriculture in order to provide quality food to our community. We work with the Livestock conservancy out of North Carolina in order to save the bloodlines of Heritage Breed animals, traditional livestock breeds that were raised by our forefathers. The breeds of the bygone era, before industrial agriculture became mainstream.
Our ancestors knew the importance of these animals, not only the quality of food they would produce but the purpose they served in helping to take care of the land. To protect our soil. Without good soil, we have no nutrient dense food. It has been an honor to bring these practices back to our land and help save these important creatures by giving them a purpose again.
We have been selling our meats for 7 years now at the Covington Farmers Market and we are very excited to be now offering weekly boxes through this CSA. We hope you can see the difference in what we provide vs. what the industrial market has convinced you is “good quality” all these years.
You will find in your box each week, different cuts from our Freedom Range Chickens and our Large Black Hogs, as well as possibly from time to time some specialty cuts from our spanish goats or Horned Dorset lambs. This is more than just making a buck off you to us, we want to nurture, educate, and connect folks back to where their food comes from and to feel good about it in the end.
- Earl
HamptonRidgeFarm.com
The FWF website is being revamped to include the offering of locally grown sustainable meat box options. Another newsletter will go out soon with how to order your first CSA box of the season! Stay tuned!
Spring 2023 is HERE
news from the farm
Hello Farm Fam! I hope your 2023 year is starting out amazing. We had a WILD 2022, the farm had a rough start with losing most of our summer starts which caused us to cancel our CSA. Which turned out to be bitter sweet when we found out a few months later that we were expecting a tiny farm hand later in the winter! We welcomed baby Honor on 11/1 and we are just over the moon with this tiny addition to our loving farm family. I can’t wait for you all to meet him!
We are well into spring and jumping into the growing season. We have some major cleanup to do from last season when we had to walk away from our tools and crops mid season. We decided we needed to make a major change to how we start our seedlings this year and are working with Vermont Compost, the top of the line potting mix. It's the Chanel of dirt! We were lucky enough to get our hands on some in time! The cold weather crops are in the long greenhouse already and over 1300 heads of lettuce are seeded. Next up will be to start working the soil. I personally can't wait to get my hands dirty. The feeling of the fresh dirt and the warm sun on your back in the spring is therapy for me after a long winter of staying inside. Though my hear tand soul always welcome time on the couch with my. loved ones close by while we watch the fire roar. The soil and the farmers heal during the winter.
A CSA that is easier for you
This season we are trying something new. A CSA experience that is a little more customizable for you and your busy life. The hardest part of participating in a CSA is the commitment of 20 weeks with no breaks. What if you're going on vacation? What if you have soccer tournaments out of town? What if you just wanna binge and eat out all week? Or maybe you want to have more one week. Now you can do all of these things!
Starting in May the CSA shop will be opened on the Fox Whistle website. Once the boxes become available for each week, you can go to the site, choose the size box you want, add eggs and other extras, and choose your pickup location. This allows you the opportunity to make changes as needed. Throughout the season we will also offer deals on extras like - canning tomatoes, cucumbers for pickling, and other sweet deals. There's no commitment! Come and go as you please each week.
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