What's CSA?
It stands for Community Support Agriculture. It consists of a commited community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation by paying the farmer/grower in advance which is used to cover the cost of growingraising locally clean food which is shared by all the shareholders/CSA members in return. By doing this, the members and the farmer/grower have a direct relationship with each other, providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
Our CSA Policy:
We raise and provide the members with pork from the heritage breed, which is considered the most delicious pork , once you've tried this one, you will never want to go back and buy the standard kind of pork. Some high end restaurants are using this kind of pork in their restaurants. The Heritage breed is the kind of hogs used to be raised in the old days and they have the old world taste. They are free from growth hormones but they are fed with good healthy food and raised in open pasture.
What will each member receive?
You will get about 6lbs. of pork in each delivery. The kind of cuts are breakfast sausage, bacon, sliced ham, pork chops, maybe roast and ribs. There will be 5 deliveries in 10 weeks. Any other cuts that you want can be purchase separately on a pre-order basis and will be sold to you at farm price. Our bacon and ham are cured the natural way, no nitrate or msg .
Season duration:
Start: 12/05/2011
End: 04/10/2012
Delivery dates: (12/6/, 12/20, 01/3, 01/17, 01/31, 02/14, 02/28, 03/06, 03/20, 04/03)
The cost?
We charge you $6.00 - $14.00 on delivery depending on the location and number of shares. We try in every way we can to make the payments as low as possible so that this can be a fair thing for everybody. With that payments, hopefully, it is able to cover the cost of the gas, labor, material/supplies(includes the feed, insulated meat bags, butcher service and gas to the butcher who has a license(USDA inspected) and inspected facility. Cost will be as follows:
5 deliveries in 10 weeks - $540
Plus Delivery and Handling - (depending on location)
Payment options:
You can pay for the entire season up-front or in 2 installment payments. But we do require a deposit fee which is deducted from the payment that you should make and is for those who is paying by installments.
Deposits and payments should be made by 01/12/2011. All payments should be made by check only to: Frank Epps
10383 Jim Town Lane,
Calvert, TX 77837
Cell-phone: 979-224-3453.
Our drop off locations are College Station/Bryan and Waco.
We are looking for at least 15 members to make it possible to make a delivery to one drop location. This is only a pork CSA. We are looking forward to have a beef CSA one day too. We can work hand in hand to make it possible to have clean and local food for your family. You are always invited to come to our farm to see what we are doing and get to know us too. Email us at fnepps@gmail.com or wiljanege@gmail.com for further information.
Thanks.
Jane and Frank Epps..
979-224-3453
Calvert, TX.
