Joining Howard's End CSA for the 2010 Fall season

Hi, and thanks for your interest in Howard's End CSA. "CSA" stands for Community Supported Agriculture.  When you join us, you are putting your financial support behind our organic farm from which you will receive goods on a regular, weekly basis.  With your payment you are establishing a debit account with us.  Each time you receive goods, or pick up additional goods from our booth at the downtown State College Tuesday Farmer's Market, or the Saturday North Atherton Farmer's Market, your account is debited for those goods received. 

We will have available for the fall season about 20 half-share openings.  The fall season will start on Tuesday, August 17th and will end on Saturday, December 18th.  In addition to the produce you receive from us, you will have the option to add pastured chickens and ducks, fresh brown eggs, cheeses (currently we're thinking of offering cheddar, blue, gervais, ricotta salata and some herbal soft cheeses), wood-fired oven breads and fresh pizzas.  Jams, jellies, pesto, butters, cider, and artisanal beers (to be sampled, not sold) are also in the plans.   The fall is always a great season - with hoop houses in place the hot weather crops and cool weather crops can all be available.

We will ask for a payment of $250 for this 17 week season which you can include with your membership at the beginning of August and receive an account balance of $265 or two payments of $125- one prior to the beginning of the 17th and one mid-season (the week of October 11).  Each time you pick up produce, the value of the goods you have received will be tabulated and deducted from your account.  You can check your account balance at any time.  Mid season, we will give you an accounting total of your activity.

We will be having a farm day for all members on Saturday, August 21 from 5 p.m. into the evening.  We will have farm tours, games for children and a pot-luck sit down dinner at a very long farm table.  The children can fish in a pond. Watch the chickens perform antics that only they can come up with and watch the ducks waddle and quack.  Please join us for this fun time.  For those who attended last year, you will see how we've expanded and the improvements we've made or are making.  For those attending for the first time, we will explain our goals and the challenges of running an organic farm.

If you are interested in joining, please send us an email right away and ask us to reserve a place for you. 
We already have considerable interest, and last year we turned away many people.  If we are full, we will refer you to other CSA's in the area or you can join us in January for the 2011 season.

Thanks so much for your interest in Howard's End.  We look forward to meeting you.

Sincerely, Addison Hoffman and Valerie Anderson

 Click here to download the CSA Membership Form in PDF format:

http://sfc.smallfarmcentral.com/dynamic_content/uploadfiles/388/CSAform.pdf