Moon In The Pond 2011 CSA. Become a Co-producer!

Keepin’ It Clean, Keepin’ It Real

Community Supported Agriculture is really great idea that is directly inspired by our work on the land. It emphasizes and reinforces our interdependent relationships. Our work feeds the land, feeds us and in turn feeds you. It’s constant, perennial and cyclical. It’s renewed now; looking forward, building on our accomplishments. Every year when you join our CSA, you anticipate your family’s needs for the upcoming year (in fact, even beyond that--good health for life!). Every year you plan with us: clean air, water and soil, a vibrant community, satisfying, nutritious food. All these ideas and efforts stay the same.

But we also need to respond to our current ‘environmental’ conditions. Half the pundits are telling us the recession is over. The evidence of the other half being right is also reported daily and seems undeniable. Although our costs continue to rise, as food producers in our community, as nurturers of our community, we can’t ignore the increasing numbers of people with less access to healthy food. See our next newsletter for info about what we’re doing with the Sheffield Food Pantry and how you can help.

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Working Toward The Tipping Point

For those who want to make a greater commitment to homegrown food, community agriculture, food security and all the things CSA represents, we’ve created a new highest-level ‘platinum’ membership. Based on an annual family food budget of $10k, a “Harvester” commits to obtaining about 20% of their food from Moon in the Pond. It’s a big commitment, but keep in mind that Moon In The Pond CSA membership means not only a wide variety of wonderful heirloom vegetables (about 30 weeks of the year), and fantastic organic and grass-fed meats, sausages and specialty items (year ‘round), but because we’re an educational farm, your membership supports our outreach and on-farm educational work. Also, we will donate 20% above the value of the Harvester subscription, $300 of food, to the Sheffield food pantry.

Our CSA’s Different—MITP Innovation

No other CSA works this way! Instead of getting a subscription box of vegetables for each of 20-25 weeks, like most CSAs, we give you choice to shop like you usually do. You decide how you want to shop, how much and what you want from a wide selection of sustainably raised foods, both vegetables and meats, eggs, honey—whatever we raise, year ‘round. (Check our Harvest Year Schedule.) And there’s no due date or expiration. You send us your subscription money and we send you MITP dollars that we call “Bacon Bucks”. Then you spend them ‘til you run out, whatever way you want, whenever you want, on our products at the farm, or at farmers’ markets where we sell. Simple, convenient, flexible and fun. If winter rolls around and you want to re-subscribe, you can use unspent “Bucks” to rejoin! (Or Valentines gifts!—True love.)

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Bacon Bucks

It’s easy. Our CSA is called “Bacon Bucks.” We send you Moon In The Pond dollars, “Bacon Bucks,” for the amount of your ‘subscription.’

“Bacon Bucks” get you:
- the best food money can buy—no contest!
- a connection to your farm!
- join-up premium—see the list
- whatever we sell at the farm (no blackouts/restrictions)
- whenever you want (no “pick-up day,” we’re open 7 days)
- any time of year (we’re open year ‘round)
- whatever we have
Vegetables (see Harvest Year Schedule)
Meats (fresh and cured, sausages and specialties: see on-line list)
- no quantity limits, no exceptions, no expiration
- freebies, discounts, and members-only super special sales
- access to the farm for unlimited visits
- referral bonus (sign a new member—get a super treat!)

Subscribe Now by PayPal or Snail Mail

You can become a Bacon Bucks member on-line, through PayPal. (Help us now!) Or download our membership form and mail it in or bring it to the farm with a check. We have suggested membership levels, but join at whatever amount you’re comfortable in between. We know you want us to get through the winter and have great stuff (amazing, delicious, real, local, heirloom, lovingly grown, organic, health-giving, beautiful food) for you all through the coming year.