Welcome to Six Farms CSA at Silverbrook Farm
BRINGING LOCAL FARMERS TOGETHER, WITH LOCAL CONSUMERS

How to purchase a share!
Click on your community listed below and use the "Purchase a Share" button when you're ready to sign up! 

Dartmouth, MA  -  CSA  /  2010 Season

START AND END DATES:  June 23rd, first pick up  /   October 27th, last pick up

PICK UP DAY AND TIME:  Wednesdays from 1 to 6 PM  (Please mark your calendars and be on time!)

LOCATION:  Silverbrook Farm, 592 Chase Road, Dartmouth, MA  02747

SHARE PRICES:  By Check:           Half share:  335.00  /  Full Share:  570.00

                            By Credit Card:   Half share:  345.00  /  Full Share:  585.00

NOTES:  Please park on the grass next to Chase Road.  Handicapped members and those with multiple children or infants may (slowly) drive in and park next to the windmill.  Please do not block either driveway!  Bring your own bags to collect your share.  We request that children be attended to at all times.  NO PETS!

 

 

 

 

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Boston, MA - City Hall Farmers Market CSA Pick up  /  2010 Season

START AND END DATES:  June 23rd, first pick up  /  October 27th, last pick up

PICK UP DAY AND TIME:  Wednesdays from 11 AM to 6 PM  (No Monday pick up available this year.)

LOCATION:  Boston City Hall Plaza Farmers Market at the Silverbrook Farm booth.

SHARE PRICES:  By Check:           Half Share:  335.00  /  Full Share:  570.00

                            By Credit Card:    Half Share:  345.00  /  Full Share:  585.00                       

 

 

 

 

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Boston, MA - Downtown  /  2010 Season

Cambridge, MA

Jamaica Plain, MA

Somerville, MA

Watertown, MA

ABOUT:  Your share is delivered to your workplace or home by the Tricycle "Trucks" of Metro Pedal Power!  Going on vacation?  You can arrange for your share to be delivered to a friend or a charity if the address is in Downtown Boston, Watertown, Jamaica Plain, Somerville or Cambridge.  Just contact Metro Pedal Power!

START AND END DATES:  June 21st, first pick up  /  October 25th, last pick up

DELIVERY DAY:  Mondays

! ! !  IMPORTANT  ! ! !  Make sure that you provide detailed delivery instructions to Metro Pedal Power during the sign-up process.  You will be prompted to do so.  Delivery charges are included in the price of your share.

SHARE PRICES:  By Check:           Half Share:  495.00  /  Full Share:  735.00

                            By Credit Card:   Half share:  510.00  /  Full Share:  750.0

 

 

 

 

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Boston, MA  -  Copley Square Farmers Market CSA Pick up  /  2010 Season

START AND END DATES:  June 25th, first pick up  /  October 29th, last pick up

PICK UP DAY AND TIME:  Fridays from 11 AM to 6 PM

LOCATION:  Copley Square Farmers Market at the Silverbrook Farm booth.

SHARE PRICES:  By Check:           Half Share:  335.00  /  Full Share:  570.00

                            By Credit Card:   Half Share:  345.00  /  Full Share:  585.00

 

 

 

 

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Dorchester, MA  -  Codman Square Farmers Market CSA Pick up  /  2010 season

START AND END DATES:  June 24th, first pick up  /  October 28th, last pick up

PICK UP DAY AND TIME:  Thursdays from 11 AM to 6 PM

LOCATION:  Codman Square Farmers Market at the Silverbrook Farm booth.

SHARE PRICES:  By Check:           Half Share:  325.00  /  Full Share:  550.00

                            By Credit Card:   Half Share:  335.00  /  Full Share:  565.00

 

 

 

 

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Chatham, MA  -  CSA  /   2010 Season 

START AND END DATES:  June 23rd, first pick up /  October 27th, last pick up  (See Labor Day option below.)

PICK UP DAY & TIME:  Wednesdays, 11 AM to 5 PM

LOCATION:  Chatham Cheese Company, 902 Main Street, Chatham, MA  02633

PRICING:   By Check:           Half Share:  350.00  /  Full Share:  585.00

                   By Credit Card:    Half Share:  360.00  /  Full Share:   595.00

New this year:  Special option for Cape Cod only:  Starts June 23rd and ends the Wed. before Labor Day.

ELEVEN WEEK LABOR DAY SHARE:      By Check:           Half Share:  215.00  /   Full Share:  355.00

                                                                By Credit Card:  Half Share:   225.00  /  Full Share:  365.00

 

 

 

 

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Provincetown, MA  -  CSA  /  2010 Season

START AND END DATES:  June 23rd, first pick up /  October 27th, last pick up  (See Labor Day option below.)

PICK UP DAY & TIME:  Wednesdays, 11 AM to 5 PM

LOCATION:  The Bradford Natural Market, 141 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA

PRICING:   By Check:           Half Share:  350.00  /  Full Share:  585.00

                   By Credit Card:    Half Share:  360.00  /  Full Share:   595.00

New this year:  Special option for Cape Cod only:  Starts June 23rd and ends the Wed. before Labor Day.

ELEVEN WEEK LABOR DAY SHARE:      By Check:           Half Share:  215.00  /   Full Share:  355.00

                                                                By Credit Card:  Half Share:   225.00  /  Full Share:  365.00

 

 

 

 

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ABOUT CSA & THE BENEFITS OF JOINING

CSA stands for Community Sustainable Agriculture. In other words, buying locally keeps green open spaces in your town and helps to ensure that the means to produce food, will exist in your community. 

A CSA is a collection of consumers that agree to purchase products from a local farm (or group of farms) throughout a season.  Members purchase a “share” of the farm and each week go to the farm to pick-up or, have the product delivered to their town.  It is a creative way to eat locally and reduce your carbon footing! For the duration of the growing season, you know the farmer that is providing your fruits and vegetables, and how they are being produced!

Silverbrook Farm is coordinating the Six Farms CSA. We partner with other farms to provide a wonderful diversity of fruits and vegetables offered at the peak of ripeness and freshness.  Our farmers select seed varieties for their taste. The large commercial growers must plant products that can tolerate mechanical harvesting and travel well over long distances.

At the Six Farms CSA you will find old favorites as well as a heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables that are not usually available in any super market.  All produce is freshly harvested on the pick-up day or the day before.

Another great benefit of owning one of our shares is that you are part of a farm family that donates thousands of pounds of good fresh food to charities every year.

Food is political and social.  Where you spend your food dollars makes a big difference to our environment and the local scenery. Spending your food dollars at super markets supports farms in foreign countries. Spending just a fraction of those dollars locally, you support local farms AND keep them from becoming housing developments or strip malls.

Michael Pollen states in his wonderful book, The Omnivores Dilemma, that five calories of petroleum are spent to produce one calorie of food. Most of this expense comes from trucking food long distances, to your table. Other petro-calories come from pesticides and fertilizers used in conventional agriculture. Buying local organic and sustainably grown produce means that you are reducing the effects of excessive petroleum use in agriculture (20% of our nations energy use!).  If everyone ate one local meal each week, the United States would save 57 million barrels of oil a year!

We promise to share your dollars with other local farms.  The Europeans say “Eat your view” meaning if you want farms in your community, you need to buy from them.

THE SIX FARMS

Our Farms are in Dartmouth and Westport, Massachusetts and are in a 6 mile radius from Silverbrook Farm:

• Allen's Neck Farm - Certified Organic
• Hillside Farm - Conventional Corn Grower
• The King Farm - Sustainable
• Silverbrook Farm - Sustainable
• Sylvan's Nursery - Sustainable
• Matte's Orchards - Conventional Fruits and Veggies

THE TYPES OF PRODUCTS YOU CAN EXPECT IN YOUR SHARE.

We guarantee products that are local, fresh, and unique. You will experience the seasonal harvest of New England. Each week there will be a new mix of vegetables, fruits and herbs that are harvested that day or the day before. You will have the opportunity to try some new and unusually tasty varieties of produce as well as many old favorites.

Depending on the month, you may receive multiple (varieties) of:

Salad Greens (5)	Tomatoes (3)	Heirloom Tomatoes (8)	String Beans (3)	Beets (3)
Peas (2)	Basil (9)	Cucumbers (2)	Peppers (5)	Squash (8)
Pea Tendrils	Leeks	Garlic	Corn	Flowers
Raspberries	Blueberries	Grapes (2)	Herbs	Spinach

Later in the season your share may also include several (varieties) of:

Fingerling Potatoes (3-5)	Onions (2-3)	Winter Squash (3-5)	Asian Pears (3)	Turnips
Macomber Turnips	Broccoli	Carrots	Apples (3)	Parsnips
Melons	Eggplant	Kale & Chard	Peaches	Currants

Click to see approximate amounts included in your share during three selected weeks.

Cheese made right here in South East Massachusetts!
Hannahbells from Shy Brothers Farm in Westport, Great Hill Blue Cheese from Marion, as well as locally made goat cheese and fresh mozzarella will be included in the shares two or three times.  They will also be offered for sale or pre-order at Silverbrook Farm in Dartmouth during many of the pick up days. 

Eggs Etcetera

Our own eggs, honey, jams, herbs, potted plants and other treats are also available (During the Dartmouth pick up) and are occasionally included in the share.

Products offered exclusively to our CSA members.   

Silverbrook Farm - Dartmouth location only.

Beef  
This year we will again offer for order:  fresh, grass fed, free range beef from River Rock Farm.  Hormone and nitrate free and raised right next door in Westport, MA.   These local ranchers have sold out of this wonderful product for the next several years, but have allocated several head just for our CSA members.

Lobsters from Westport, MA

Fresh lobsters caught by the fishermen and fisherwomen of Westport Point, MA.  We will take your orders once every two to three weeks.  You'll have the chance to talk with Tim the lobster man about his catch.

Olive Oil   

Tony and Rosemary Melli from Olio Di Melli, will be offering for sale several varieties of their imported, gourmet quality Italian Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar once a month at the pickup.

 

GIFT CERTIFICATES
Give the gift of fresh, locally grown food. We have certificates for family shares, half shares or a one time gift basket. The baskets contain everything included in that weeks share and are priced at $19.00 and $34.00. They can be redeemed on any Wednesday of the CSA season at Silverbrook Farm in Dartmouth.

Introduce friends and family to your farmers market!
We sell gift certificates at all the farmers markets we attend, redeemable at any of those markets or at Silverbrook Farm on Wednesdays. Just ask us.

For More Information - E-mail: Silverbrook.Farm@comcast.net

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