Community Farm of Ann Arbor
website: communityfarmofaa.org
Harvest Kitchen partners with the Community Farm of Ann Arbor for vegetables during the summer months. Summer-season Harvest Kitchen members are members of the Community Farm and are welcome to visit the Farm to enjoy u-pick crops, attend festivals, work in the fields, and/or participate in decision-making meetings. Or, you can just stop by and enjoy a chat with other farm members, a picnic with your family, and a chance to touch the earth your food is growing in.
At the Community Farm, we practice Biodynamic Agriculture, a sustainable method of agriculture that yields nourishing food while maintaining and enhancing the health of the soil. We don’t use any pesticides or chemical fertilizers. We do have two beautiful cows, three goats, and a flock of chickens all of whom contribute manure for our compost heaps. After a year of decomposition, we have the most beautiful, nutrient-rich compost to spread on our fields.
The Community Farm is also working hard to provide a truly sustainable future for farming: not only are we building a fertile farm, we are working towards the goal of paying our farmers a living wage and educating the next generation of farmers through field trips and our apprenticeship program.
The Community Farm of Ann Arbor is one of the oldest CSA farms in the country. Now in its 23rd year, the Community Farm of Ann Arbor has remained solidly committed to its original goals: to develop a sustainable method of agriculture that yields nourishing food while maintaining and enhancing the health of the soil; to provide a livelihood for the producers, and to create a partnership with the producers and the consumers in which the risks and rewards of farming are shared.
Old Pine Farm
website: oldpinefarm.biz
Harvest Kitchen is excited to partner with Old Pine Farm’s meat CSA program to bring our omnivore subscribers humanely-raised, organic meat. Old Pine Farm is also committed to raising flavorful and interesting heritage breed meat.
Humane Animal Care
We sell you no animal given feed antibiotics or growth hormones. Our steers are not raised in a feedlot or industrialized environment. All of our animals live humane, stress-free lives right to the end. No slaughterhouse holding pens or animal trucking. Compassion for our animals is given top priority.
Grass Fed Beef
We feed our cattle primarily green grass and hay. Our cattle never see a feedlot. Our beef provides you with the health benefits documented from grass-fed beef. Grass-fed beef is nature’s way of helping you become and stay healthy. We raise a variety of cattle breeds including the heritage breed Scottish Highlanders.
Pork
Our hogs are free-range outdoors and live in the sunshine and mud! We raise a variety of heritage breed hogs including Berkshire, Tamworth, and, hopefully for 2010, Red Wattle and Large Black.
Chicken
Our broiler chickens are outside pecking around in the grass and dining on pasture delights. Their grazing is supplemented with “organic” or GMO-free grain.
Lamb
Lambs are primarily grass-fed and pasture raised. Most of our sheep are a heritage breed – Navajo Churro – and noted by Sustainable Food News as
being superb in meat quality.
