Tag: Native Offerings
sunday september 30th 2007
A Winter's Share
Recently on BuffaloRising.com, YUM Editor Christa Seychew posted an article (with a great picture of smiling bologna, I might add) whose discussion morphed into the topic of Community Supported Agriculture. The discussion mentioned a couple of farms that do CSA deliveries in the area, and this prompted me to do a bit of research.
My decision to seek out local produce stems from a few personal biases. First, local produce tastes better. It doesn’t spend days sitting on a truck, it doesn’t need to be picked before ripened in order to keep it from rotting before it arrives at its final destination, and it's often grown with heirloom seeds on an organic farm. I’m not anti-science, but if a seed can be genetically modified to survive a thorough spraying of Round-Up, I’m not sure I want to eat it.
Second, I don’t like the idea of sipho…
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thursday september 27th 2007
CSA Spotlight: Native Offerings
Considered leaders in WNY’s CSA trend, Native Offerings Farm was established in 1997; the first CSA in Erie County. Stew and Deb Ritchie, who run the farm with their three young children, received certification as a “naturally grown” farm two years ago.
Continuing their progressive approach, they offer a variety of shares. There’s the traditional summer and winter vegetable shares, but there is also a July Start share (a version of the summer share that starts later), a fruit share, a four season share, and pork and beef shares. The vegetable shares are offered in three different sizes: feeding anywhere between one and six people.
The meat shares work differently than the typical produce share. According to Stew, members purchase either a whole or half pig (125 lbs. or 63 lbs. respectively), or a quarter or half cow (125 lb…
