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Stockton, New Jersey
Sat, November 21, 2009
through Sun, November 29, 2009
10:00AM - 3:00PM
These indoor winter farmers markets bring out the best of Central NJ and easter PA producers to highlight the season’s bounty for Thanksgiving. Open both weekends before and after Thanksgiving, this winter market highlights an 80 acre llama and alpaca farm in Hunterdon County, NJ. Dates are as follows: November 21, 22 and Nov 27, 28, 29
A $2 donation is suggested. Call 609 397-2212 for more information or visit http://www.woodsedge.com TURKEY SOURCES Please call Brant or Jim at 973.538.9131
With a limited supply of Turkeys this year, please place your orders as soon as possible.
Pickups are available Mon, Tues & Wed before Thanksgiving in Chester or Morristown
Organic Turkey (Eberly Farm/Dartagnan) $4.49/lb (8-12lb, 12-16lb, 16-20lb, 20-24lb)
Turkey Traditional (Griggstown) $3.99/lb (12-14lb, 15-17lb, 18-20lb, 21-23lb, 24-30lb)
Heritage Red Bourbon (Griggstown) $8.99/lb(7-10lb)
OG Breast Bone In (Eberly/Dartagnan) $9.99/lb(4-12lb)
Boneless Turkey Breasts (Griggstown) $8.99 (3-4lb)
Also capon, duck, venison, goose & guinea hen. For side dish menu go to: http://www.thehealthshoppes.com
GRIGGSTOWN QUAIL FARM Call: 908 359-5218 All-natural, free-range White Broad-Breasted or Heritage Red Bourbon Turkeys.
HAVENWOOD FARM 67 Henry Street Newton, NJ 07860
Ken & Nancy Hoffman 973-383-3630
havenwood@earthlink.net
Turkeys sold out, chicken and eggs are available! A pasture based operation that currently is producing pastured chicken and eggs. All feeds are non-certified organic. No Genetically Modified grains/grasses are used.
Email for availability and you will be sent an order form. |
FROM CNN.COM
ELBERTON, Georgia (CNN) -- In a parking lot in suburban Atlanta, customers mill in the summer heat, waiting for freezer bags full of beef, pork, chicken and other meats.
Tim Young raises cattle, pigs, chicken, turkeys and more on his "beyond organic" farm.
"By supporting local farmers, we are essentially voting to support the local economy," said Anthony Chan, a member of a group that gets its meat monthly from Nature's Harmony Farm in Elberton, Georgia.
Nature's Harmony is a member of a growing local-food movement, often referred to as Community-Supported Agriculture. Watch video of Nature's Harmony »
The CSAs, as they're called, are a model in which consumers pay for their food in advance and receive it directly from the farmer. Working much like a magazine subscription, customers pay for a period of usually at least six months and receive packages either at the farm or at established delivery locations like the one in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Although thousands of farms have sprung up over the past two decades selling fruits and vegetables using the system, experts say there are probably only a few dozen that, like the Georgia farm, offer meat.
Farmers Tim and Liz Young raise cattle, pigs, chickens, turkeys and lambs on their 76-acre farm in northeast Georgia, near the South Carolina state line.
The couple describes their farming technique as "beyond organic," saying they use no artificial fertilizers, growth hormones or antibiotics and don't keep their animals penned up.
Life on their property -- where cattle and sheep graze in open fields and chickens follow along to clean up after them -- looks much like the classic image of a family farm. But the couple say they consider themselves healers to both their customers and, according to their Web site, a food system that "had become a machine with little regard for food safety, food taste and animal welfare."
"People are becoming very disconnected from the food system," Liz Young said. "Buying from a local CSA or just shopping at a local farm, you can see where it's coming from. You can talk to the farmers and figure out how the animals or the produce is raised."
The couple has 50 subscribers, plus a waiting list, and say 2,000 people receive a newsletter on the farm's activities.
Members of the nation's handful of meat CSAs, and the thousands of others, offer a list of reasons.
The food is healthier and tastes better, they say. They like supporting their local economy. Eliminating cross-country delivery is better for the environment, as are the sustainable farming techniques the farmers tend to use.
"Being part of a CSA means that I know the first names of the people who are raising the meat I eat," said Andrew Johnson of Kansas City, Missouri, a member of the Parker Farms meat CSA in Richmond, Missouri. "Whereas, with the meat I buy from the grocery store, I don't know where it came from or who raised it."
Others say they appreciate that animals from the usually small family farms don't spend their lives in processing plants, conditions that advocates call inhumane.
Because CSA members deal with the farmers directly, they are able to visit the farms and see exactly how their food is produced. The transparency, they say, creates an incentive for farmers to raise their animals as naturally as possible.
"If we have any questions about how it is being grown, we can simply visit the farm ourselves," said Kristen Johnson, Andrew's wife.
Robert P. King, a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota, said that although community-supported agriculture "provides a good opportunity for farms that want to use sustainable practices to actually do well in the marketplace," it's nowhere close to challenging conventional agriculture's domination of the food market.
King said geographic availability can be limiting to CSAs. Generally, they require a rural area suitable for farming near an urban area that provide enough customers to make it work.
And then, King said, there's the cost. Operating on a smaller scale and avoiding mega-farm practices designed to cut costs and improve yields almost always mean higher prices.
A six-month Nature's Harmony membership ranges from $360, or $40 a month, for a poultry-only delivery to $840, or $140 a month, for 20 pounds of a variety of meats.
"Is it as cheap as the lowest-price chicken in the grocery store? Absolutely not," Tim Young said. "But with our prices and the prices of any sustainable farmer, you've got everything baked in: the cost to the environment, the cost to the health care system, the cost of producing that animal [in a humane way]."
Johnson said that any difference in prices at the Missouri farm, which charges a $1,150 annual fee, are worth it.
"I don't think it is significant, but if it does end up costing a bit more, it is still important to us to make this a priority," he said. "There are other expenses I am willing to give up rather than give up a safe, trusted food source."
The Youngs hope more people will get the chance to choose.
"There's a big, burgeoning demand out there for local meat, for local food, for organic foods and we'd like to see more famers step up to fill that demand," Tim Young said. "We're trying to do that but we can never meet the demand that's out there.
"We'd love to see more farmers try to do what we're doing."Flay on Gas vs. Charcoal: "I am on record many times as saying that I prefer the ease and consistency of gas grills. However, that doesn't mean that I don't use charcoal grills myself from time to time. Charcoal burns hotter than gas, allowing for a better sear and more flavor from the smoke; but I have never had a problem getting a really good sear on the gas grill and I also like to add flavor to my food when it's grilling (with spice rubs and glazes) and after it comes off the heat (with vinaigrettes or salsas)—so for me, it's a wash."
Testing for Doneness: "I prefer the touch test, which is really easy and makes total sense. As meat cooks, it becomes firmer and firmer to the touch. Rare meat feels spongy, medium meat feels springy, and well-done feels taut. This is true for pork, poultry, and steak-like fish such as tuna, salmon, and swordfish, too."
DETERMINING GRILL TEMP from HOWSTUFFWORKS.COM
How Hot Is It?
Your recipe says to heat the charcoal grill to 375°F. Like most cooks, you probably guess and then hope for the best. But there is a pretty reliable way to gauge the temperature of the coals without resorting to ripping the thermometer off the deck railing.
A quick and easy way to estimate the temperature of the coals is to hold the palm of your hand about four inches above the coals. Count the seconds you can hold your hand there before the heat forces you to pull it away. Then use the handy chart below to determine the temperature.
Seconds | Coal Temperature |
2 | 375°F or more |
3 | 350° to 375° |
4 | 300° to 350° |
5 | 200° to 300° |
Sustainable Lawrence and Cherry Grove Farm present…
BBQ & Brew
A Post-Memorial Day Celebration of Sustainable Food!
Enjoy an amazing BBQ menu featuring Cherry's Grove Farm's sustainable meats, cheeses, and eggs... and beer tastings from Flying Fish Brewery! Live acoustic music too!
Where: Cherry Grove Farm
(3200 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ)
When: Friday, May 29
Time: 5:30 - 8:00pm
Cost: $20* (with half the proceeds benefiting Sustainable Lawrence )
Wine & Cheese Event
at
Cherry Grove Farm
Friday April 24th 7-9pm
Wine from
Hopewell Valley Vineyards
Bread and Live Music from
The Village Bakery
Appetizers made from
Cherry Grove Farm Products!
Try the following cheeses:
Asiago
Toma Primavera
Herdsman
Gouda
Shippetaukin Blue
Cherry Grove Farm
3200 Lawrenceville Rd
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
(609)219-0053
Website:www.cherrygrovefarm.
e-mail:cherrygrovefarm@