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Community Supported Agriculture
Eaters
Guild began as a farm because there was a community that supported,
and were supported by, our growing organic vegetables. It was 2001
when the birth of Eaters Guild came with the birth of our daughter,
Iris. Our goal was and remains to steward the soil and its community,
finding and growing our health as inclusive to the health of our
soil community. We do this with refined and age-old organic practices,
integrating plant and animals into an agroecology that feeds us,
the soil and uncultivated biodiversity.
Our
approach to CSA has been to broaden the time over which we return
a members investment by sending shares for 25 weeks. Our aim is
to share the full cycle of eating diversity covering 45 weeks with
our summer and winter shares. CSA members are the heart of our farm.
On weeks when the produce is long and all of our markets are well-served,
shares get the best of the best, a careful composition designed
to anchor your week's meal planning. For weeks where the produce
is tight, the CSA always eats first, in line before the farmers
markets, restaurants and grocers.
Our
summer share starts in the first half of May and ends near November.
Our winter shares deliver every other week starting the first of
December to the beginning of April. If shares are available, you
can join at the beginning of either cycle. Summer shares can be
full or half shares for $500 and $285 respectively. In 8 seasons
of making shares, half shares have seemed to be adequate for one
or two people with full shares serving 3 to 4. Of course there are
individuals that can eat a full share themselves and families of
5 that like half share as a small addition to their other food choices.
There are many pairs of couples or small families that split a full
share to mutual benefit.
Here
are some pick-up locations, and contact us for more locations:
| Tuesdays
4:30 to 9 pm |
127
W. Berkeley, Kalamazoo |
| Tuesdays
5 pm to nightfall |
Kalamazoo
Community Chiropractic, Westnedge in Portage . |
| Wednesdays
8 to 12 pm |
Holland
Farmers’ Market |
| Wednesdays
5 to 9 pm |
The
Livery 190 5th St. in Benton Harbor |
| Saturdays
8 to 12 pm |
South
Haven Farmers’ Market on Huron St. |
| Wednesday or Saturday after 3 pm |
At
the Eaters' Guild Farm 26041 CR 681, Bangor |
| Wednesday 11:30 to 5 |
Summertime Market,
Bluestar highway, at the bridge in Douglas |
Read more about the Eaters
Guild
Join Now!
Go to the Winter
09-10 membership agreement and information
Download the Summer
09 membership agreement
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