Besides the organic vegetables provided by Stoneledge Farm, members can also purchase fruit shares, chickens, meat, eggs, honey, maple syrup and more.

THANKSGIVING TURKEYS
Fruit - info / form
Meat, Poultry, Eggs, Cheese, Bread - info / form / website
Honey, Maple Syrup - info / form
Flowers - info / form
Hot Bread Kitchen - info / website

Honey, Maple Syrup - Stoneledge Farm produces honey (well really it's the bees) and their neighbor, Bear Creak, produces maple syrup. Prices and quantities are available on the order form.

Fruit - An additional fruit share is available to members. Fruit is raised on neighboring farms using low-spray but not strictly organic techniques. The fruit share runs for 20 weeks starting in July. It consists of approximately 5-8 pounds of fruits, including berries, plums, peaches, nectarines, pears and apples. Fruit shares are $210 and are available on the standard agreement.

Meat, Poultry, Eggs, Cheese, Bread - A group of family farms in Saratoga and Washington Counties makes deliveries to the Carnegie Hill / Yorkville CSA. In the spirit of the CSA, members are encouraged to contact the farms directly (contact info is available on the farmers' brochures and on their website) with questions and special requests.

How To Order - You may order any combination of the meats and cuts for each of the monthly delivery dates. The best way to order is by using the group's website. The first time you use the site you will be asked to set up a user profile, enter the name of your pickup location (Carnegie Hill or Yorkville) and the name of your meat coordinator. If you do not know the name, send an email or call one of the farmers (the contact info is on their website and their brochures on this website). You can also print out their order form and mail it in to the address on the form. Indicate the number (not the pounds) of packages of chickens, steaks, chops, legs, and ground meat you wish to have. Write any special requests at the bottom of the appropriate meat sections. For more information, send an email to nkdbrown@lewiswaitefarm.com.

Schedule of Deliveries
Delivery Date: 5/20/2008        Order Due By: 5/15/08
Delivery Date: 6/24/2008        Order Due By: 6/19/08
Delivery Date: 7/22/2008        Order Due By: 7/17/08
Delivery Date: 8/05/2008        Order Due By: 7/31/08
Delivery Date: 8/19/2008        Order Due By: 8/15/08
Delivery Date: 9/09/2008        Order Due By: 9/04/08
Delivery Date: 9/23/2008        Order Due By: 9/18/08
Delivery Date: 10/07/2008      Order Due By: 10/02/08
Delivery Date: 10/21/2008      Order Due By: 10/16/08
Delivery Date: 11/11/2008      Order Due By: 11/06/08
Delivery Date: 11/25/2008      Order Due By: 11/20/08

Please check back on this page for any updates to delivery and order dates.

Filling Your Order - If there is a question or problem filling an order, the appropriate farm contacts you to discuss your special requests or to offer substitutions if certain items are not available. If you have specific questions, please call or email the appropriate farm. To know how much you owe, the lamb, kid, chicken, pork and beef packages must be weighed. Each of the farms is a separate business, so each must calculate their total and then they will add your total for you. The farms will notify you of the total amount of your order by email.

Picking Up Your Order - Don't forget that the chicken, lamb and 'beef and pork together' may be delivered in separate packages. If you ordered all three, check to make sure you pick up all three meats. Pickup is at the the home of a member once per month. The meat is delivered frozen and in some sort of cooler, so bring an insulated bag if you have one or plan to go straight home to your freezer. Please bring a check made out to Lewis Waite Farm for the total of your meat order. There will be a printed spreadsheet at the pickup site showing everyone's total and you may receive an email with the amounts shown also. Pick up a new paper order form for next month if you do not use email!

Flowers - Walter and Bernadette Kowalski are neighbors of Stoneledge Farm in Catskill, New York.

Fresh Season Share - July-September / 14 weeks / $210.00
The 'Fresh Season Share' is a weekly bouquet of our farm fresh combinations of natural, lively and bright flowers, herbs and ornamentals. Grown, harvested and delivered to you with TLC from July thru September.

Full Season Share - July - November / 22 weeks / $ 330.00
The 'Full Season Share' is a weekly bouquet from July thru November. The CSA member will receive our farm fresh bouquet July, August and September and either a fresh bouquet or a seasonal dried bouquet for October and November. Our seasonal dried bouquets consist of flowers, herbs and ornamentals that we have selectively harvested and dried throughout the season.

Half Shares - With either of the share types above we can create a bi-weekly option at half price. Members would be paired up to alternate weeks.

Bernadette writes:

Our flower farm began simply with the desire to grow beautiful things to sell to anyone who might appreciate nature's beauty. As we grew from season to season so did our passion for what we do. Through a tremendous amount of physical work and the belief that we could succeed we persevered through the last 15 years of trials with mother nature.

Today we work the land that we bought with our determination. Since purchasing this once neglected farmland we have restored it with cover crops rich in organic matter. We use a 'low-spray' method and sound farming practices that involve proper plant spacing , soil aeration and cultivation to produce healthy plants that in turn produce healthy flowers. We understand and respect the soil that we grow on.

Year after year we seek out varieties of flowers, herbs and ornamentals for their wonderful colors, scents, shapes, and textures. Our large selection, of about 100 in all, ranges from rich mocha colored 'Cappuccino' Sunflowers to herbs like spicy-sweet 'Monarda Lambada'. We blend them to create our own unique field-cut combinations that will inspire you.

Hot Bread Kitchen - HBK is a business that enhances the future for immigrant women and preserves baking traditions. HBK offers fresh breads baked with traditional recipes from around the world, making it a priority to use local and organic ingredients. Hot Bread Kitchen makes great bread and better lives for people who are an integral part of the city's future.

Hot Bread Kitchen delivers weekly to the Yorkville CSA. Visit Local Fork to place an order.