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#260 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 5:47 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for December 15th 		nkdbrown@...
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December news from the farm,

 

We all finally feel a bit rested from the whirlwind of the 3 Thanksgiving deliveries one after the other.  Our backs were pretty tired and we just wanted to do anything but work in the walk in freezer! So the holiday was a welcome respite from the hustle and our family dinner at Uncle Walt’s was a delicious and warm success. We all bring our “usual” dishes with the flair of different recipes each year. This year I made 2 cranberry delights; Mom’s fresh relish with oranges, lime, lemon, cranberries and maple syrup all finely chopped and mixed in the blender and my new blueberry, currant, cranberry and maple syrup compote cooked for about 10 minutes and deliciously juicy. It was a wonderfully warm day and a baseball game and a football game perked up the kids’ appetites.

 

The warm weather as been very welcome but it seems odd that the ground is still very soft and the big rain this week made for some pretty muddy tractor tracks up into the pastures. We are taking advantage of the lack of the warmth and began feeding the cows hay up in the hilly pastures by the house. Until a bit of snow and ice deter Colin from wanting to drive up the steep slope with a big round bale on the front and back of the tractor, we’ll be able to have the cows fertilize these fields and also introduce more varieties of forage from any leftover hay. When the snow arrives, the herd will move to the flatter fields at the Waite’s part of the farm.

 

The slow down of our pace has allowed me to get back to the local yoga class periodically to stretch out those back muscles and spend some time with my sister and niece over the holiday weekend. Alan has been keeping up a robust pace. He has been creating an acceptable Town of Jackson annual budget and trying to pare down the Washington County annual budget. In November he had to run for re-election for town supervisor against his first opponent in 15 years. He won! Only half of the 1000 voters turned out for the vote. Now the next month is filling up with holiday events and getting ready for the snow.

Over the weekend to our amazement, we had our first snow and it was a beauty. It was one of those light, fluffy, big flake afternoons with our dark colored dogs looking like reverse Dalmatians. The snow stuck to every surface, twig and windshield. It was just enough to cover everything and turn our little valley into a white snow bowl looking suitable for skiing. The cows were a bit surprised to find all their hay and grass had disappeared but were eating it and finding the grass underneath! It was a bit harder than usual for the tractor to make it up the steep hill but Alan, the expert driver that he is (on the tractor and in the delivery van!) made it to the top. Today it is all still here; not much melting happening and there will likely be more by Wednesday! I just wish the ground would freeze! Hope you are all staying warm on those windy streets!

We hope you all have a wonderful December season and stay warm and be healthy

 

To all you goat’s milk drinkers –

 

Gillis Acres Farm has started their winter milking and pasteurizing schedule. After the pastures wind down in their growth and the hay feeding season begins there is a bit less milk that has to be divided between cheese, yogurt and kefir making and bottling milk. So in order to have enough milk to satisfy all of our deliveries, Ave is asking that we provide her with the orders for bottled milk at least one week prior to the delivery date. This allows her enough notice to allocate sufficient fresh milk for your orders. We can keep track of standing orders for the each monthly delivery if that would make remembering easier for you. Please email Chris with your requests at nkdbrown@... . Thanks for enjoying all our farm products. 

 

Face book! New avenues of communication come to the farm!

 

We are happy to announce that you can now find us on Face book under Lewis Waite Farm CSA. Become a fan and get updates on the farm, reminders of deadlines, recipes and much, much more! Use the search feature in the top right corner of your Face Book home page to find us.  Jennifer is a new face on the farm, helping us with all kinds of tasks. She began by helping us through the Thanksgiving order packing season and is steadily adding more of her skills to the myriad of tasks Alan, Colin, Chris and I have not always had time tackle. Thanks Jennifer for taking us into the 21st century!

 

 

I found this on my favorite editorial webpage www.commondreams.org and thought many of you good food eaters would also be interested.

 

Published on Sunday, December 6, 2009 by the Independent/UK

New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods

Shopping for products that aren't genetically modified (GM) can be challenging, particularly in the United States where there are as yet no laws governing the labeling of products with GM ingredients. To make it a little easier on concerned shoppers, the US advocacy group Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) this week launched a new website for consumers who want to avoid buying products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) and gene-spliced food products.

While it's impossible to provide a complete list of GM foods marketed in the US, the new guide aims to take the guesswork out of avoiding GM food and features straightforward brand-by-brand comparisons of non-GM products and products likely to contain GM ingredients. It's been widely reported that most Americans would like to know if their food contains GMO ingredients and would avoid foods they knew contained GM ingredients.

But there are some basic rules of thumb in avoiding GM products and are applicable worldwide:

Buy 100 percent organic: Some organic products (with multiple ingredients), however, may contain non-organic ingredients, so it's best to stick to single ingredients. Because something says "organic" on it doesn't mean it doesn't contain GM ingredients. In fact, it could contain up to 30 percent GM ingredients, so be sure the labels say 100 percent organic.

Avoid processed foods likely to be made with ingredients from the "Big Four" GM crops: corn, soy, canola (for rapeseed oil), and cotton (for cottonseed oil).

Avoid sugar unless it's 100 percent cane sugar: GM beet sugar is one of the latest additions to the food supply; avoid aspartame, an artificial sweetener derived from GM organisms.

Look at what is (or isn't) on the labels: If a product is not labeled as being GMO-free, most likely it contains some GM ingredients.

The shopping guide also has a long list of so-called invisible GM ingredients that can make their way into one's diet.

For more information, go to: http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com

There are plenty of other websites with detailed information on GM foods and genetic engineering, some of which also provide downloadable shopping guides for consumers. Some of them include:

http://www.sustainablestuff.co.uk
http://www.seedsofdeception.com
http://www.truefoodnow.org
http://vivresansogm.org
http://guideogm.greenpeace.ca
http://www.non-gmoreport.com

 

Best Wishes, Nancy

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product when you place your order.

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try our recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Rupert, it has a robust nutty flavor and is a golden buttery delight.  Try our recipe for Swiss Cheese ‘n Onion Quiche.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Bacon Wrapped Rosemary Chicken and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Italian Turkey Sausage and Peppers.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Roast Leg of Lamb.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Whole Leg of Lamb, Bone-in.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Beef Back Ribs and Pork Cutlets with Figs and Balsamic Vinegar.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Eye Round Roast.

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Honey Mango-Chutney Marinade.

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is December 10th at midnight, and delivery is on December 15th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com   
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#259 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Mon Dec 7, 2009 4:06 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for December 15th 		nkdbrown@...
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To all you goat’s milk drinkers –

 

Gillis Acres Farm has started their winter milking and pasteurizing schedule. After the pastures wind down in their growth and the hay feeding season begins there is a bit less milk that has to be divided between cheese, yogurt and kefir making and bottling milk. So in order to have enough milk to satisfy all of our deliveries, Ave is asking that we provide her with the orders for bottled milk at least one week prior to the delivery date. This allows her enough notice to allocate sufficient fresh milk for your orders. We can keep track of standing orders for the each monthly delivery if that would make remembering easier for you. Please email Chris with your requests at nkdbrown@... . Thanks for enjoying all our farm products. 

 

Face book! New avenues of communication come to the farm!

 

We are happy to announce that you can now find us on Face book under Lewis Waite Farm CSA. Become a fan and get updates on the farm, reminders of deadlines, recipes and much, much more! Jennifer is a new face on the farm, helping us with all kinds of tasks. She began by helping us through the Thanksgiving order packing season and is steadily adding more of her skills to the myriad of tasks Alan, Colin, Chris and I have not always had time tackle. Thanks Jennifer for taking us into the 21st century!

 

 

I found this on my favorite editorial webpage www.commondreams.org and thought many of you good food eaters would also be interested.

 

Published on Sunday, December 6, 2009 by the Independent/UK

New Website Helps Shoppers Avoid GMO Foods

Shopping for products that aren't genetically modified (GM) can be challenging, particularly in the United States where there are as yet no laws governing the labeling of products with GM ingredients. To make it a little easier on concerned shoppers, the US advocacy group Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) this week launched a new website for consumers who want to avoid buying products containing genetically modified organisms (GMO) and gene-spliced food products.

While it's impossible to provide a complete list of GM foods marketed in the US, the new guide aims to take the guesswork out of avoiding GM food and features straightforward brand-by-brand comparisons of non-GM products and products likely to contain GM ingredients. It's been widely reported that most Americans would like to know if their food contains GMO ingredients and would avoid foods they knew contained GM ingredients.

But there are some basic rules of thumb in avoiding GM products and are applicable worldwide:

Buy 100 percent organic: Some organic products (with multiple ingredients), however, may contain non-organic ingredients, so it's best to stick to single ingredients. Because something says "organic" on it doesn't mean it doesn't contain GM ingredients. In fact, it could contain up to 30 percent GM ingredients, so be sure the labels say 100 percent organic.

Avoid processed foods likely to be made with ingredients from the "Big Four" GM crops: corn, soy, canola (for rapeseed oil), and cotton (for cottonseed oil).

Avoid sugar unless it's 100 percent cane sugar: GM beet sugar is one of the latest additions to the food supply; avoid aspartame, an artificial sweetener derived from GM organisms.

Look at what is (or isn't) on the labels: If a product is not labeled as being GMO-free, most likely it contains some GM ingredients.

The shopping guide also has a long list of so-called invisible GM ingredients that  can make their way into one's diet.

For more information, go to: http://www.nongmoshoppingguide.com

There are plenty of other websites with detailed information on GM foods and genetic engineering, some of which also provide downloadable shopping guides for consumers. Some of them include:

http://www.sustainablestuff.co.uk
http://www.seedsofdeception.com
http://www.truefoodnow.org
http://vivresansogm.org
http://guideogm.greenpeace.ca
http://www.non-gmoreport.com

 

 

Best Wishes, Nancy

 

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse bakes breads in their European style hearth ovens in many delicious flavors.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey raised with no hormones or antibiotics and turkey products processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  In spring their new pullets lay very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs in summer and later begin to produce large and extra large eggs in abundance!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed non-gmo corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified organic. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm supplements our offerings and helps this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County and is collected every September.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed in early spring at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

 

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try our recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Rupert, it has a robust nutty flavor and is a golden buttery delight.  Try our recipe for Swiss Cheese ‘n Onion Quiche.

 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Bacon Wrapped Rosemary Chicken and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Italian Turkey Sausage and Peppers.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Roast Leg of Lamb.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Beef Back Ribs and Pork Cutlets with Figs and Balsamic Vinegar.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Eye Round Roast.

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Honey Mango-Chutney Marinade..

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is December 10th at midnight, and delivery is on December 15th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

 

 

 

 

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com   
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#258 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:10 pm
Subject: CSA Lewis Waite Farm, an ALERT NOTICE about the orders for Thanksgiving week 		nkdbrown@...
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We have a resolvable problem with the ordering for the last deliveries of the season, 11/19, 11/21, 11/24. Last night the webmaster had to make a quick change to fix our problem with the turkey orders. Everything should still be fine, but it would not hurt to verify your orders.

Naturally, Murphy’s Law would crop up on our busiest weeks!!

 

IF YOU HAVE PLACED A HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER BEFORE OCT 14TH, you can use the PLACE AN ORDER menu choice as usual to place a new order for the additional items you want. If you already have an order for additional items, use the menu choice SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS to add other items as usual until your order deadline. Your orders are intact and were not changed.

 

IF YOU HAVE PLACED A HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER AFTER OCT 14TH, you need to use the menu choice SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS, to add all the other items to your turkey order instead of using the PLACE AN ORDER menu choice as you normally would. Last night, you may have encountered problems entering a new order with the message, there are no more delivery dates for your CSA or you may have only had December delivery dates available for your new order. This problem should be fixed. The order deadline of your orders had to be changed to 11/14/09 for the Thursday and Saturday delivery and changed to 11/19/09 for the Tuesday delivery.

 

If you have any problems, please call or write us.

I am sorry if this is confusing or frustrating, but we believe the problem is fixed as long as you use the technique above to enter your order. 

 

IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER WHEN YOU PLACED YOUR HOLIDAY TURKEY ORDER, you can use the SEE MY EXISTING ORDERS choice to look at your order for either 11/19, 11/21, or 11/24 (your regular delivery date) or look at 10/01/09 for your turkey order. If you have a turkey order for 10/01/09, you placed your order before Oct 14th. If there is no 10/01/09 order, you placed your order after Oct 14th.

 

When PLACING AN ORDER, please be sure to look at the DELIVERY DATE at the top of the order page to be sure it is correct.

 

Sorry for any uproar or drama we may be causing, but we would rather be correct about this delivery – especially this one!!

 

Best wishes, Nancy

 

 

 

 

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com   
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#257 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:26 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA Lewis Waite Winter Season Dates and Times (Tuesday) 		nkdbrown@...
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Greetings!

 

Thank you once again for a very successful summer season. Your support means so much to us, helping our farms to remain farms and helping us to continue doing what we love.

 

With the weather turning colder and with travel sometimes a bit hazardous, we are now moving over to our monthly winter delivery season. As we will be making deliveries once a month, you’ll need to stock up on all the delicious items to last!

 

It also means that for some CSAs the pick-up location will be different. Please note any changes, they are printed on your order confirmation or check them out using the “See My Delivery Schedule” option in your website menu at www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

 

 

Here is the schedule of deliveries:

 

Tuesday ALL                                 Order Deadline

December 15, 2009                       December 10, 2009

January 12, 2009                            January 7, 2009

February 16, 2009                          February 11, 2009

March 16, 2009                               March 11, 2009

April 13, 2009                                  April 8, 2009

May 11, 2009                                   May 6, 2009

 

We hope that you’ll keep ordering with us and keep up the CSA spirit!                        

 

Best Wishes, Nancy & Alan

 

 

 

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com   
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#255 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:19 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for November 5th 		nkdbrown@...
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Don’t forget, the next order deadline is October 31st at midnight, and delivery is on November 5th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

News from Lewis Waite Farm

 

We never seem to time it right to pick the last bowl of the late fall red raspberries. After a couple of frosts, they all are still hanging from the drooping canes looking way darker than they should be and some look a little grey. You would hope that the vibrancy of the berries that are left would be sucked back by the cane to the roots where the energy could be stored through the long cold winter. We love this raspberry that has two picking seasons! But by now all the annuals and some of the tender annuals have been frozen and are standing, browned, and waiting to be cut and piled and carried to the pigs to scavenge any goodness from their stalks. The garden and the perennial gardens cleanup is a big fall job done mostly on the warmer days so your hands don’t freeze trying to work the pruners all day. We still have golden leaves here on our hillside; many other places are bare of leaves except the golden tamarack tress that provide some of the last color of the season. Our maple trees were stunning this year, although way more yellow than their usual red, orange, yellow combination. It’s raining again today and the animals that have shelter, the pigs, horse, donkey, cats and dogs, are all inside curled up sleeping. Our newest batch of five small weanling piglets arrived this week. They are pros at sleeping in a heap, the proverbial pig pile. There are three pink pigs and two brown and black spotted ones. They are still learning the daily routine and getting used to us who visit them multiple times a day which so far scares them into a corner of their big farrowing pen. In a few days we’ll let them have a bigger area with another older pig that has an injured leg. Then they’ll have an older buddy to teach them the ropes. Right now all the fences in the pasture are set up for much bigger pigs so they’ll have to grow a bit before they can go outside ranging with the big ones or they will be trotting all over the place.

 

We are beginning to get ready for the onslaught of the turkeys. Consolidating all of the inventory into the tightest spaces possible to make room for the many boxes which will be arriving around mid November. Please check at your site in the next couple of weeks for the last vegetable delivery date, as some of the CSAs are ending before our Thanksgiving deliveries and you may be having a new distribution site for the week before Thanksgiving.

All of the turkeys and any regular orders for other foods for your holiday eating will be delivered on November 19 or November 21 or November 24.

In our website for you at www.csalewiswaitefarm.com there is a menu option for you to see all the delivery dates. We are making our best effort to keep this up to date and accurate so use this to double check when and where your distribution will be.

Beginning in December we start our once per month deliveries again. Most of your CSAs are participating and have found locations for the winter distributions either at your same summer location or at the home of many of the coordinators. We will enter these schedules soon so you can see the dates on the website as well.

 

Just a few more weeks left to CSA season – boy did it fly by this year. Hope you all are getting acclimated to the chillier weather – my sister in Boston and my nephew in Maine have seen snow already! So take care, be well, have fun and come and see us when you have a weekend up north! Best wishes, Nancy & Alan

 

 LATE ORDER POLICY

We have finally determined that we must establish a LATE ORDER POLICY including a late order charge of $7.00. We are not trying to deter you from placing your order, just trying to make up for the extra the time we spend coordinating any ‘off our farm’ products. We are very glad to accommodate you with an order when you have been out of town, you are craving something you want to add, or your schedule has been too crazy to think too far ahead and plentiful other reasons. So hopefully you’ll think of the extra contribution as a donation to the farm for our extra scurrying around happily fulfilling your order.

 

With so many members and so many locations it becomes hard to keep track of the ordering process between Chris and I and all the farms, bakers and cheese makers when late orders are coming in one at a time past the order deadlines and especially when it is over the weekends. Unfortunately, our gathering of all the items for the Tuesday orders occurs over the weekends when we also attend farmers markets on both Saturday and Sunday. 

 

The farms drop off their products here at their convenience by at least one day prior to the day of delivery (that is Monday morning at the latest for Tuesday deliveries and Wednesday morning at the latest for Thursday deliveries) but some farms bring them 2 days before. Our Rock Hill Bread order deadline is Friday at 2 for Tuesday orders and Monday at 2pm for Thursday orders.

 

Sometimes late orders are very easy to deal with when there is extra space in the CSA box for more items and all the items are stored here, or the order is placed before we even begin packing. Sometimes, like last week, we have to make up a whole new small box as the extra items would not fit with all the packed items we had all ready. And this is at 5 am on the delivery day! I am opening boxes and inserting orders as we pack the truck. I’m always afraid I’ll make a mistake in the fog of the ‘too early in the morning’ routine. All this discussion is not meant to whine about the extra work but to justify the $7 charge as a real labor cost in relation to the deviations in our normal procedures we jump through to make the orders happen.

 

Here are some guidelines for you that list easy vs. harder items for us to get on short notice.

 

These are the Easiest for us to gather for a late order as long as they are in stock:

  • Beef             – stored here for both farms, LWF and MBF
  • Chicken         – stored here for both farms, KNK and JVF
  • Goat’s milk cheeses, yogurts – Gillis Acres farm is 3 miles away
  • Eggs             – we generally order extra eggs just in case
  • Maple Syrup  – Sugar Mill farm is 4 miles away
  • Honey – stored here
  • Granola         – stored here
  • Jam              – stored here
  • Pork              – stored here
  • Turkey          – stored here

These items need extra coordination and we may not be able to get for a variety of reasons:

  • Cows milk products
  • Goat’s milk products
  • Sheep’s milk products
  • Lamb (both farms)

 

Our Bread ordering deadline is 2pm - 3 days prior to the delivery -

  • So for Tuesday deliveries we have to place the baking order by Friday at 2pm.
  • For Thursday deliveries we have to place the baking order by Monday at 2 pm. Monday

Bread is pretty much impossible after that except for unusual circumstances.

 

So we will begin this new policy with the October deliveries and hope you all understand. Thanks for all your support and loyalty to our farms and our foods.

 

TURKEYS - please note that you can enter your Stonewood Farm turkey order on our www.csalewiswaitefarm.com website using the special menu item for Place your Thanksgiving Turkey orders here. Please enter your order – if you can – by November 10th.

 

DON’T WORRY - We always order extra turkeys that are available after November 10th if your plans are not made by that time.

 

The turkeys will arrive on either: Thursday November 19, Saturday November 21 or Tuesday November 24 depending on your CSA. If your vegetable distribution is over – we will make a plan with your LWF coordinator and your CSA core group.

 

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, bakes breads in their European style hearth ovens in many delicious flavors.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey raised with no hormones or antibiotics and turkey products processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  In spring their new pullets lay very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs in summer and later begin to produce large and extra large eggs in abundance!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed non-gmo corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified organic. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm supplements our offerings and helps this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County and is collected every September.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed in early spring at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

 

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com  
518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#254 From: "Nancy Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Thu Oct 15, 2009 4:51 pm
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Read or Skim on! There are multiple sections of news for this newsletter.

 

News            Chilly October

The season change has gone from a late warmish trend with our first frost up here on the hill just 2 days ago. Now all of a sudden, it's in the 30's each night and downright chilly and damp each day! Working in the walk-in freezer has been a real thrill with the heat not yet turned on in our north barn where all the packing activity happens. I was able to harvest the last of the basil  before the frost and had a giant pesto project the other morning with me furiously picking leaves off the stalks and the blender whirring and a wonderful aroma enveloping the house.  The garden clean up is looming soon. The kale, Swiss chard, leeks, broccoli and parsley are very happy to be chilled but now that the root cellar is chilled, they'll soon be sleeping in the dark waiting for the comfort food meals of cold weather.

 

The wine crop is growing too. The last of the red tomatoes went into a small batch of tomato wine. My nephew still is commenting on the weird appeal the flavor of the wine had for him. It came out tasting like a smooth wine with a tomato finish that seemed odd to your senses! He'll get the whole batch of five bottles next year, not just the sampler one! My best tasting one yet just went into the bottle wine yet was a blackberry-blueberry that was very rich tasting. As I was reading Eating Right for Your Blood Type this morning, I learn that I should be avoiding blackberries! Oh, NO!

 

This book is written by Dr. Peter J D'Adamo. He and his father have researched the history of the development of blood types and the diets of the peoples who have them. They have discovered that blood types have a big effect on what foods you feel better eating and what diseases you may be predisposed toward because of eating the "wrong" foods for your blood type which is very important to your overall metabolism. Even your style of exercise plays a part in your blood's inner workings.  I was surprised that foods that I love, like freshly shredded coleslaw. are not so good for my digestive system!!! Boo! Lucky for me (and my hunter ancestors), grass-fed beef is my best nourishment! Check it out. This book is a good follow up to Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.

 

We hope that all of you are feeling well, staying relaxed, focused and calm. Take advantage of this lull before the holidays to rest and gear yourselves up! Best Wishes,  Nancy & Alan

 

 

LATE ORDER POLICY

We have finally determined that we must establish a LATE ORDER POLICY including a late order charge of $7.00. We are not trying to deter you from placing your order, just trying to make up for the extra the time we spend coordinating any ‘off our farm’ products. We are very glad to accommodate you with an order when you have been out of town, you are craving something you want to add, or your schedule has been too crazy to think too far ahead and plentiful other reasons. So hopefully you’ll think of the extra contribution as a donation to the farm for our extra scurrying around happily fulfilling your order.

 

With so many members and so many locations it becomes hard to keep track of the ordering process between Chris and I and all the farms, bakers and cheese makers when late orders are coming in one at a time past the order deadlines and especially when it is over the weekends. Unfortunately, our gathering of all the items for the Tuesday orders occurs over the weekends when we also attend farmers markets on both Saturday and Sunday. 

 

The farms drop off their products here at their convenience by at least one day prior to the day of delivery (that is Monday morning at the latest for Tuesday deliveries and Wednesday morning at the latest for Thursday deliveries) but some farms bring them 2 days before. Our Rock Hill Bread order deadline is Friday at 2 for Tuesday orders and Monday at 2pm for Thursday orders.

 

Sometimes late orders are very easy to deal with when there is extra space in the CSA box for more items and all the items are stored here, or the order is placed before we even begin packing. Sometimes, like last week, we have to make up a whole new small box as the extra items would not fit with all the packed items we had all ready. And this is at 5 am on the delivery day! I am opening boxes and inserting orders as we pack the truck. I’m always afraid I’ll make a mistake in the fog of the ‘too early in the morning’ routine. All this discussion is not meant to whine about the extra work but to justify the $7 charge as a real labor cost in relation to the deviations in our normal procedures we jump through to make the orders happen.

 

Here are some guidelines for you that list easy vs. harder items for us to get on short notice.

 

These are the Easiest for us to gather for a late order as long as they are in stock:

  • Beef             – stored here for both farms, LWF and MBF
  • Chicken         – stored here for both farms, KNK and JVF
  • Goat’s milk cheeses, yogurts – Gillis Acres farm is 3 miles away
  • Eggs             – we generally order extra eggs just in case
  • Maple Syrup  – Sugar Mill farm is 4 miles away
  • Honey – stored here
  • Granola         – stored here
  • Jam              – stored here
  • Pork              – stored here
  • Turkey          – stored here

These items need extra coordination and we may not be able to get for a variety of reasons:

  • Cows milk products
  • Goat’s milk products
  • Sheep’s milk products
  • Lamb (both farms)

 

Our Bread ordering deadline is 2pm - 3 days prior to the delivery -

  • So for Tuesday deliveries we have to place the baking order by Friday at 2pm.
  • For Thursday deliveries we have to place the baking order by Monday at 2 pm. Monday

Bread is pretty much impossible after that except for unusual circumstances.

 

So we will begin this new policy with the October deliveries and hope you all understand. Thanks for all your support and loyalty to our farms and our foods.

 

TURKEYS - please note that you can enter your Stonewood Farm turkey order on our www.csalewiswaitefarm.com website using the special menu item for Place your Thanksgiving Turkey orders here. Please enter your order – if you can – by November 10th.

 

DON’T WORRY - We always order extra turkeys that are available after November 10th if your plans are not made by that time.

 

The turkeys will arrive on either: Thursday November 19, Saturday November 21 or Tuesday November 24 depending on your CSA. If your vegetable distribution is over – we will make a plan with your LWF coordinator and your CSA core group.

 

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, bakes breads in their European style hearth ovens in many delicious flavors.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey raised with no hormones or antibiotics and turkey products processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  In spring their new pullets lay very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs in summer and later begin to produce large and extra large eggs in abundance!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed non-gmo corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified organic. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm supplements our offerings and helps this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County and is collected every September.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed in early spring at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is October 17th at midnight, and delivery is on October 22nd.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

 

 

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com  
518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

 


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#252 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:47 pm
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Don’t forget, the next order deadline is September 19th at midnight, and delivery is on September 24th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Hello to Fall – Mid Sept 09

We were up and out in the dark this morning. It must be Jupiter that is so bright in the sky. These fall-ish days (Sept 21 is very soon!) are just lovely and the sky is so brilliant at night. The Milky Way is very clear and all the stars are just popping bright in the dark sky. Each morning seems to bring foggy clouds in the valleys along the rivers and Saratoga Lake. Being up on the hillside, we have a great view across the Hudson Valley. My friend Teri who spent some time in China says, these sometimes wispy and sometimes thick tight clouds are called dragon’s breath and that is so fitting. It makes it very worthwhile to get up so early. We had a busy packing day yesterday and stowed all the boxes in the van from the walk-in freezer and walk-in cooler and still had enough room for Alan and Colin to drive to the city.

Recently we had some interesting visits from a local painter. Ned Reade, from Arlington VT, met us at the Dorset VT farmers market and asked if he could come by and paint landscapes some day. One day a few weeks ago we were packing all the orders and Ned walks in. He had his paints and brushes and wanted to find a nice spot on the hill to watercolor. We said, sure, sounds great, as long as you show us what you’ve done before you leave. In a matter of only a couple hours, he was back with a beautiful painting of our house and gardens. What a treat to see someone else’s impression. Last week he was back for another stint and walked way up on the hill overlooking the house and barns out in to the Hudson Valley. Very different from the first, and really amazing how fast he is. In the summer we also had a group of children from an art day camp in town come and paint twice on the hillside too. It is always fun to have them come too.

The preparation for fall and winter has just about begun so it is really great that we finally have gotten our hay all done! We have about half our acreage baled in the white wrapped baleage, fermented like sauerkraut. The other half is dry round bales a good 4 feet tall and wide. We also have 5 other farms where we hay and with our old 1950’s tractors going at the full speed of 12 miles per hour, one of the farms takes about and hour to drive to and a bit more with a fully loaded hay wagon to come back. So right now we have bales all over and we’ll be driving back and forth between fields bringing hay home this week. Thankfully the last week of weather fully cooperated with the haying program (it can’t rain on the loose hay) and we got it all done nicely.

We are cleaning out the root cellar to begin stacking in potatoes, our braided onions and lots of bunches of great garlic! It is hard to believe the season has rolled around already and is starting to be dark very early and getting cooler every night. The wild apples are ripening everywhere, the pears in our yard and our neighbor’s yard too are falling from the trees and the fall raspberries are just luscious! Harvest time – it seems the only time it is not really busy around here is winter but you can make yourself busy then too!!

Hope all is well with all of you and hope you are all keeping up with yourselves too!

Best wishes, Nancy & Alan

New Products:

West River Creamery is now offering Full Circle Tomme, an aged goat cheese with a brushed rind which is aged for 2 – 3 months. It is a firm, mild goat tomme that is offered in whole (2 – 2.5 lbs), half (1 – 1.25 lbs) and quarter (.5 - .6 lbs) wheels.  

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product.

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try the recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Chris’ Chicken Legs and Thighs and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Taco Salad.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Simple Lamb Chops.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Marinated Ribeye and Dijon Grilled Pork Chops.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Spiced Roast Beef and Vegetables

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Chili and Honey Lamb Marinade..

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Beth’s Farm Kitchen - Try our recipe for Sesame Noodles with Hot Plum Chutney

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  Currently they have new pullets laying very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs and only a few of them beginning to produce large/extra large eggs!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is September 19th at midnight, and delivery is on September 24th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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Date: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:54 pm
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for September 10th
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday,
September 10th. The order deadline is on Saturday, September 5th at
midnight.  We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you
some of our regions fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then
all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get
better at our coordination with everyone.
After a few requests for nut-free granola we have added a flavor called
Fruitful Harvest which includes Rolled oats, pure Vermont Maple Syrup,
Barley flakes, Apple juice concentrate, Rye flakes, Canola oil, Quinoa
flakes, Dried tart cherries (cherries, sugar, sunflower oil), Organic
raisins, Dries apples (may contain sulfites), Dried  apples, Dried apricots,
Puffed Brown rice, Cinnamon and sea salt.  Lisa and Beth tell us that they
thoroughly wash their stainless steel equipment between batches of each
recipe and are especially careful before the nut-free recipe.  The granola
is made on the same equipment so those of you with severe allergies must use
your own discretion.
Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is September 5th, and delivery is on
September 10th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
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Dear members -

It seems amazing that summer is almost gone. The evenings are cooler and even with the heat that we finally got this week the summer seems as if it is slipping away already. Next week is the famous Washington County Fair and all the animals and the AG, Commercial, 4H, Maple. Youth Cattle, Sheep Goat Chicken, Dairy, Work Horse, Craft and Toy Buildings will be packed with activity. My sister Beverly and niece Laura are visiting again this week. This year my sister, Judy spent part of the summer in her river side summer home enjoying her first taste of retirement. They all had fun having afternoon tube floats and kayak paddles down the river, visits to the shops in Manchester VT and Saratoga Springs, and fun at the farm trying to catch the barn kittens (Laura did catch the calico for about 30 seconds!). We picked our first red tomatoes, dug some of the new potatoes and found all the colors – red, blue and yellow, picked the last big batch of blueberries and weeded almost the whole garden. Judy, Beverly and Laura are always such a big help to us each time they come. While I am working on packing orders or re-arranging the freezers, they do a lot in the garden and fruit patch. After work, they urge me to keep going on things I haven’t done that are dragging on my conscience. So it is a very productive and fun visit to have them here. We fed the pigs their first batch of early apple drops and had lots of fun throwing them out in the pasture and trying to pitch them into the big water bucket. It turns out that the pigs had a lot of trouble bobbing for apples because we had to fish them out of the water the next day! Laura loves to go to Steiningers in Salem NY for lunch at least once each year. Their small restaurant is quaint and delicious. They are famous for their soups, sauces, croissant sandwiches, jams, desserts and especially their hand made chocolates. They must have about 8 different puff pastry desserts with fruits of the season and ice cream and their own hot fudge sauce: the best!

One of our latest cows to have her calf had a set of adorable twins last week. They are all chestnut brown, small and delicate. The mother cow is an all black Angus and the poor thing was huge in the last few weeks. We had her and her calves in a pen for a few days to be sure she would take care of both of them, Sometimes they choose one and reject the other to fend for itself and in this case we did have to intervene as initially they were both a bit weak and not able to drink for themselves. After we gave them a few feedings of colostrum the smaller one was the first to figure it all out and the mother was very happy to have one of them nursing. We are still feeding the larger one a small amount to stimulate her appetite and make her search out mom’s milk but she is still learning. It is so cute to see them both nursing at once with their tails wagging.

We’re still picking out the priorities of the days to get all our tasks done and one of these days we think we’ll install a white board wall in the north barn to write out all the things we want to do so they don’t get erased until we do them!! We’re ready for an organizational, productive, pep-talk seminar. And we had better hurry up as fall is coming!! Hope all is well with all of you and that things are going smoothly!

New Products:

Joint Venture Farm is now offering Stewing Chickens, ranging from 2.3 to 3.1 lbs each. These birds were previously laying hens and  have had access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.   Try the recipe for Stewing Chickens for Salads and Casseroles.

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product.

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try the recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Chris’ Chicken Legs and Thighs and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Taco Salad.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Simple Lamb Chops.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Marinated Ribeye and Dijon Grilled Pork Chops.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Spiced Roast Beef and Vegetables

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Chili and Honey Lamb Marinade..

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Beth’s Farm Kitchen - Try our recipe for Sesame Noodles with Hot Plum Chutney

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  Currently they have new pullets laying very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs and only a few of them beginning to produce large/extra large eggs!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is September 5th at midnight, and delivery is on September 10th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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#249 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:31 pm
Subject: Order List - Inwood - 2009-08-27 		nkdbrown@...
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Order List - Inwood - 2009-08-27

Order Id        Member Name     Member Email    Total   Paid    PayPal  Phone No.      
10941   Melissa Fleming mfleming9@...    $54.09          No      7185030542     
10954   Phenisher Harris        nharris@...        $57.87          Yes     212 304 8847   
10992   David Bick      Rangerdavenyc@...       $27.94          No      212-569-1965   
Thanks for your order! Please make checks payable to “CSA Lewis Waite Farm”.

Please return this sheet with the checks. 

The “Paypal” column means that member can pay by Paypal not that they have paid by Paypal.  Some pay by check instead.

The amounts in “Total” are the total invoice!

Alan’s cell is 518-281-4261

Leave by 5:30 am

1

FARM SPOT                               approx 9:00 am

St Marks Church

2

SUNNYSIDE                               approx 9:30 am

SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES

3

ASTORIA – ARROW                 approx 10:00 am

Arrow Community Center

4

PARK SLOPE                      approx 11:00 am

Park Slope Garden

5

KWT Neighbors                   approx  11:30 pm

The Oak and the Iris Cafe

6

PROSPECT HEIGHTS        approx  12:00 pm

PS-9   School – use the PARKING / VISITOR PASS

7

CLINTON HILL                    approx 12:20 pm

Clinton Hill School, PS 56

8

STANTON ST                      approx 1:00 pm

The M'Finda Kalunga Community Garden

9

CENTRAL HARLEM          approx 1:45 pm

Thurgood Marshall Academy 212-694-8715

10

ROXBURY 114TH ST                approx 2:00 pm

Broadway Presbyterian Church

11                                                                      not before 2:15 pm

ROXBURY 86TH St         approx 2:15 pm

St Paul & Andrew Church

12

INWOOD                          approx 3:15 pm

Traffic Circle at end of

Park Terrace East in Isham Park

13

RIVERDALE                       approx 3:45 pm

Riverdale Neighborhood House

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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#248 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:54 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for August 27th 		nkdbrown@...
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<<...>>

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is August 22nd at midnight, and delivery is on August 27th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

New Products:

Joint Venture Farm is now offering Stewing Chickens, ranging from 2.3 to 3.1 lbs each. These birds were previously laying hens and  have had access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.   Try our recipe for Stewing Chickens for Salads and Casseroles.

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try our recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Chris’ Chicken Legs and Thighs and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Taco Salad.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Simple Lamb Chops.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Marinated Ribeye and Dijon Grilled Pork Chops.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Spiced Roast Beef and Vegetables

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Chili and Honey Lamb Marinade..

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Beth’s Farm Kitchen - Try our recipe for Sesame Noodles with Hot Plum Chutney

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  Currently they have new pullets laying very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs and only a few of them beginning to produce large/extra large eggs!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is August 22nd at midnight, and delivery is on August 27th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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#244 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Aug 5, 2009 1:36 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder for August 13th 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for August 13th

We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday, August
13th. The order deadline is on Saturday, August 8th at midnight.  We are
proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions
fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope
to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination
with everyone.

In order to make our website ordering more user friendly we have added a new
feature.  Once you have selected a category ex: Beef, Grass-Fed
Grass-Finished LWF.  You are now able to use a cut filter feature.  Rather
than going through all our cuts you can now type in the name of the cut
(these are not case sensitive) and go directly to that cut.  This should
save time and frustration during the order process.

Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!

Don't forget, the next order deadline is August 8th, and delivery is on
August 13th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

  <http://www.csalewiswaitefarm.com> www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208




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#243 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:13 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for August 13th 		nkdbrown@...
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<<...>>

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is August 8th at midnight, and delivery is on August 13th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

The pace is really picking up at the farm this month. We have had lots of visitors from the City and our family members have been coming and going this month. Our visitors from the city include:

   Astoria Hellgate members Jim, Laura and their new son Luca. It's been a long time since such a small baby was at the farm and he is very cute.  Our farm was a mid-trip rest stop on their way to Mont Tremblant in Canada for a wedding.

   Astoria Arrow members Stacey and David who come north each summer to visit and work at the Fort Salem Theatre. The play Corn, The Musical was performed last weekend; written and performed by a variety of local folks. David also teaches music to children while he is here for the summer. Luckily Stacey's work is flexible enough to allow her multiple visits here and when she is here she helps at our farm. We had her packing orders last week and picking blueberries as a treat.

   Chelsea member Frances is here to volunteer for the Salem Historic Courthouse fundraiser, the Al Fresco dinner. This annual event feeds about 500 people under tents on the lawn with all locally grown foods. This is a lovely summer evening community event. Frances loves the hustle of the activity in the certified kitchen of the courthouse where the food is prepared. The average distance the majority of the food travels is 12 miles (except for the olive oil - which makes the average 125 miles!).  It is definitely fresh and delicious.

   Our sister-in-law MaryNell brought her niece and grandniece from Americus, Georgia to see the animals. Kelly, age six is interested and wary of the animals at the same time. The cows, horse and donkey are pretty large from her perspective. 

   Our cousin Joan and her son Zachary arrived for the weekend from Minnesota, They are on a week long friends and family trip through New England. We tubed down the Battenkill River and tried to catch the barn cats among the 300 hay bales. My sister Judy was really the entertainment keeping them busy as we were getting ready for the delivery and going to the farmers markets.

  My sister Beverly and Laura came again last week to see and help care for the new calf we are bottle feeding. "Lawrence" is so cute and well trained. We brought him out into the pasture with the herd and other new calves after a week of feeding in his stall nearby. The first two times I had a halter on him and a leash and we walked around and got used to being out and able to run. The next time I brought him to the field and when he was distracted from sticking by me and trying to suck the empty bottle, I headed for the fence and let him stay with the cows. Ever since then, about two weeks ago, he comes running from the pasture when we arrive and call him. We feed him two or three times a day with the half gallon giant baby calf bottle full of milk. He is growing quickly and has graduated to three-quarters of a gallon already.  When hungry the calves are very gaunt just past their ribs, in front of their hips, yet whether he is gaunt or not, Lawrence devours the entire bottle and will keep sucking for quite a while before giving up. It is great to see that he naps and runs and butts heads with the other calves since his mother is at the dairy farm and cannot teach him herd etiquette.

 We have been eating well with all this company between our lush vegetable gardens, giant blueberries and picnics and dinners at our house and my sister Judy's along the Battenkill River and even dinner out on occasion. We hope you too are enjoying the bounty of the season - we are eating all the fresh corn that we can! Hope each week brings you great foods and great ideas for delicious recipes. 

Take care, Nancy and Alan

Website enhancements       In order to make our website ordering more user friendly we have added a new feature.  Once you have selected a category ex: Beef, Grass-Fed Grass-Finished LWF.  You are now able to use an item filter feature.  Rather than paging through all our items you can now type in the name of the item you want (these are not case sensitive) and go directly to that item.  This should save time and frustration during the order process. Another addition to the site is added information on your invoice. You will now see the quantity of the items you ordered as well as the weight. This quantity will also be displayed on the Product reports that we send to your site with the delivery. Carnegie Hill (as well as a few other people) will be especially happy with this new change.

Angela at Consider Bardwell Farm has let us know that for the time being she will not be offering either her Rupert or Equinox.  She does have other great products for members to order.

We have also added more delicious recipes for products from our various farms and would enjoy hearing about any recipes you have found or how the one’s we’ve listed tasted.  Any and all input is well received and important to us.

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy dense creamy taste.  Try our recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.

All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Chris’ Chicken Legs and Thighs and Peking Duck.

Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm – Try our recipe for Smoked Herb Chicken.

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Taco Salad.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.

3 Corner Field Farm, Lamb - Try our recipe for Simple Lamb Chops.

Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Marinated Ribeye and Dijon Grilled Pork Chops.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Spiced Roast Beef and Vegetables

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Chili and Honey Lamb Marinade..

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS: Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery. 

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.

Sheep’s milk products made by 3 Corner Field Farm

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

Pastured Chicken, offered whole, from Joint Venture Farm. These birds have access to the great outdoors where they supplement their no antibiotic and no growth hormone feed with insects, grasses and sunshine.

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range in their pastures during the summer months.  Currently they have new pullets laying very yellow small eggs, medium size eggs and only a few of them beginning to produce large/extra large eggs!   

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the lush grasses in their rotational grazing and hay in the winter. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.   We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too. This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished category.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are also fed corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished LWF and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs, but the pastures where they live are certified. 

USDA processed all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

Beth’s Farm Kitchen makes Jams and Chutneys from locally sourced fruits and vegetables. She also attends some of the Greenmarkets and her products are sweet and savory and delicious; made to the Greenmarkets standards.

 Wildflower Honey from Harry’s Honey House has from bee yards in southern Washington County.

Delicious Maple Syrup is collected and processed at Sugar Mill Farm the Battenkill River Valley.

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our region’s fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is August 8th at midnight, and delivery is on August 13th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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#242 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:42 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder for July 30, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for July 30th
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday, July
30th. The order deadline is on Saturday, July 25th at midnight.  We are
proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions
fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope
to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination
with everyone.
In order to make our website ordering more user friendly we have added a new
feature.  Once you have selected a category ex: Beef, Grass-Fed
Grass-Finished LWF.  You are now able to use a cut filter feature.  Rather
than going through all our cuts you can now type in the name of the cut
(these are not case sensitive) and go directly to that cut.  This should
save time and frustration during the order process.
Angela at Consider Bardwell Farm has let us know that for the time being she
will not be offering either her Rupert or Equinox.  She does have other
great products for members to order.
Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is July 25th, and delivery is on July
30th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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Date: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:36 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder for July 30, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

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#240 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:29 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder for July 30, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for July 30th
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday, July
30th. The order deadline is on Saturday, July 25th at midnight.  We are
proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions
fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope
to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination
with everyone.
In order to make our website ordering more user friendly we have added a new
feature.  Once you have selected a category ex: Beef, Grass-Fed
Grass-Finished LWF.  You are now able to use a cut filter feature.  Rather
than going through all our cuts you can now type in the name of the cut
(these are not case sensitive) and go directly to that cut.  This should
save time and frustration during the order process.
We are happy to report that we have received a new shipment of beef which
will be on the website later today!  So members still have time to edit
their orders to include beef.

Angela at Consider Bardwell Farm has let us know that for the time being she
will not be offering either her Rupert or Equinox.  She does have other
great products for members to order.
Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is July 25th, and delivery is on July
30th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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Date: Wed Jul 22, 2009 1:53 am
Subject: Fwd: [permaculture-61] Fwd: FoodPrintNYC Call-in Day to the City Council! Help NYC lower it's carbon footprint and offer healthier options citywide. 		nadakhodlova
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Subject: [permaculture-61] Fwd: FoodPrintNYC Call-in Day to the City Council! Help NYC lower  it's carbon footprint and offer healthier options citywide.

Hi all, 

This is surely something NYC permies can get behind...

Om, 
Alice

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Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Subject: [environment-289] FoodPrintNYC Call-in Day to the City Council! Help NYC lower it's carbon footprint and offer healthier options citywide.
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Help Pass FoodprintNYC!

We have a chance to pass a City Council resolution calling on New Yorkers to eat a lower carbon footprint. Resolution 2049 (viewable here) proposes FoodprintNYC – a citywide initiative designed to lessen the impact of the city’s food choices and production systems on climate change through the launch of a public awareness campaign; greater access to local, fresh, healthy plant-based food; and the mobilization of the financial and technical support needed to sustain these efforts, especially in low-income communities and city-run institutions. It is meant to build on PlaNYC, which aims to reduce global warming and encourage environmental awareness, yet does not address food and farming. The resolution is also consistent with the environmentally-friendly policies and programs recommended in the Manhattan Borough President’s 2009 report “Food in the Public Interest.”

Now that the resolution has been introduced, we need your help to get it passed! Please take a moment to help so that New Yorkers can lower their Foodprint and the Big Apple can serve as a model for Foodprint resolutions everywhere.

You Can Help

Tuesday, July 21 is Farm Sanctuary’s FoodprintNYC Call-In Day. Calling your council member is fast, easy and effective. Every call that you make in support of or against a policy issue gets recorded and tallied. To contact your council member and voice your support for the FoodprintNYC resolution, follow these easy steps:

1. First, get the name of your city council member and the phone number for his or her legislative office (not the district office).
2. Next, find out if your council member has already supported this resolution.
3. If your city council member has not yet signed on as a co-sponsor of Resolution 2049, please call and urge him or her to support it. Feel free to use the following simple script:

o Hello, my name is ______________ and I am a constituent.
o I live at/in ___________ (give street address or neighborhood so they know you are a constituent).
o I'm calling to urge Councilmember _______ to support Resolution 2049 calling for FoodprintNYC.
o At this time you’ll likely get thanked for calling, and then the purpose of your call will be recorded. If the individual who answers the phone asks for more detailed information, here are the key points you can make:
+ The resolution was introduced in the City Council by Councilmember Bill de Blasio on June 30, 2009.
+ It is the first NYC resolution to exclusively address reducing climate change through our food system.
+ It calls for a citywide initiative to create greater access to local, fresh, healthy plant-based food, especially in low-income communities and city-run institutions.
+ Increasing availability and use of local, healthy plant-based food decreases significant pollution caused by the packing, preparation and shipping of food.

If your city council member has already signed on as a co-sponsor of Resolution 2049, please call and thank him or her for supporting it. Feel free to use the following simple script:

o Hello, my name is ______________ and I am a constituent.
o I live at/in ___________ (give street address or neighborhood so that he or she knows you are a constituent).
o I'm calling to thank Councilmember _______ for his or her support of Resolution 2049 calling for FoodprintNYC! I am so glad to see the connection between food choices and climate change being taken seriously.



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#238 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:14 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for July 30th 		nkdbrown@...
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Don't forget, the next order deadline is July 25th at midnight, and delivery
is on July 30th
Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a
disruption to all of the farms involved

Hi, to all continuing and new members

A note from Chris
During the week before the Fourth of July, Nancy's sister Bev and her
daughter, Laura, came for a visit to celebrate a family of birthdays and the
holiday weekend.  Now they are back again but hopefully having more fun.
Laura loves coming here so she can play with the dogs, cats, donkey, horse
and pigs.  Nancy's sister Judy and her husband Taylor are here for the
summer at their Battenkill River camp.  Last weekend Alan & Nancy's nephew,
Brian, Allie and their daughter, Sadie arrived from their vineyard farm in
Maine for the weekend.  Sadie has grown a lot and it's wonderful to see her
enthusiastic glee in the garden.

We have 17 calves (at last count) and their mothers bellowing with amazing
gusto when separated from their new babies.

Things have been fairly hectic here lately!  The walk-in freezer in the
north barn is on the fritz and all the meat was moved to our backup freezer
last week making a lot of confusion. Maybe today it is finally fixed.
Nancy's computer has also been at the shop and the two of us using the same
computer is okay but somewhat difficult at times.  Hurray Nancy has a new
laptop.    If you write to nancy@... you should now expect a
reply.

A note from Nancy
It is always a wonderful boost when family and friends come to help on the
farm in the spring and summer. There is so much to do that we cannot always
keep up with all of the possibilities. The weeds in the perennial gardens
are always the lowest priority, luckily most of the gardens are mature
enough to keep their own territory somewhat weed free. The red currants are
ripe for the picking, the blueberries are starting to turn blue and our
vegetable garden is finally weed free and fully mulched. Beverly and Judy
both spent busy working days here either weeding or helping with our last
delivery. Stacy from Astoria Arrow also spent a day helping with mulching
and weeding and the daily herd checks. The deliveries are every week now,
one week on Thursday, the next week on Tuesday and the next week on Thursday
again. Between packing for deliveries (which takes days), we are also
getting back new batches of beef, pork, chicken and turkey which are all
stored here. They are all inventoried, weighed, packed in their respective
freezer space and entered into our spreadsheet inventory by Chris where we
track every piece. Never a dull moment! This week was especially fun,
especially with the beef now in the smaller freezer at the Waites farm barn
where we started our operation in 2004! Luckily we have kept this freezer
running for storage of ground beef and all this time! It brings back
memories when we go there to find the cuts we need as the newer north barn
where we work now is so spacious in comparison.

When my niece Laura returns again mid July, her favorite pastime will likely
be with our new orphan calf. We border a dairy farm on our northern edge and
last year a heifer got out and joined our herd for a month. At our monthly
roundup we caught her but she escaped from the barnyard before Eddy could
come and get her. So she spent another month with our herd. Last week Eddy
called to say that she had given birth to an all black bull calf looking
suspiciously like an Angus! So he asked if we would buy him. Since dairy
farms separate their calves from their mothers very soon after birth, the
calf has come to live at the farm in a big stall to make it easy to feed him
his half gallon of milk multiple times per day. Once he can recognize us and
will come to us out in the pasture, we plan to let him out with the herd
where maybe some sympathetic cow will adopt him. We have already seen one
cow letting 2 calves drink from her abundant supply of milk so we are hoping
to try this soon.

Two fun plays coming in the next weekends here are both written by local
residents. Greenwich, the Musical is a story about the town's history and
local lore as told to a new student in the high school who thinks that
country living might be pretty boring.. Corn, the Musical is a story about a
Salem NY family who debates what to do with the family farm when the estate
is left to the children who now have different careers and ideas. We hope to
find time in between everything else to go to see both of them.

Come on for a visit, there is lots to do in the area in the summer time!

We are happy to announce the addition of Jams and Chutneys from Beth's Farm
Kitchen.  We are trying ten flavors to begin and hope to add more from the
61 products they produce. The website is www.bethsfarmkitchen.com if you'd
like to see more about their wonderful products. You can always find the
links to the farms on the www.csalewiswaitefarm.com website under the Farms
choice on the top menu/

We have also added more delicious recipes for products from our various
farms and would enjoy hearing about any recipes you have found or how the
one's we've listed tasted.  Any and all input is well received and important
to us.

New Products:
Our new granola product made in Vermont has been very popular. The Vermont
Maple Granola Company is run by 2 women from Manchester Center VT.  Their
Artisan Crafted Granola is sweetened only with pure Vermont maple syrup. It
is handmade in small batches using whole grain oats, a variety of nuts,
seeds, and dried fruits. It is slow baked to create a crisp and light
texture.
We are offering 3 flavors:
Wild Blueberry Flax made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil,
Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Sweetened Dried Maine Blueberries
(blueberries, sugar, sunflower oil), Sliced Almonds, Ground Flaxseed, Sea
Salt.
Cranberry Nut made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil,
Sunflower Seeds, Sweetened Dried Maine cranberries (cranberries, sugar,
sunflower oil), Pecans, Sliced Almonds, Sea Salt.
Maple Oat Nut made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil,
Pecans, Sliced Almonds, Hazelnuts, Sea Salt.

We are introducing a new Pastured Chicken provider in Easton, New York.
Joint Venture Farm is about 3 miles from Lewis Waite Farm and raises hay,
sweet corn, pumpkins, feeder pigs, pastured chickens and fresh eggs. Gary
and MaryAnn are the second generation to live on the farm that once was a
small dairy operation.
Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested
product
3 Corner Field Farm has Sheep's Milk Feta, traditional Bulgarian style feta
made from raw sheep's and cow's milk aged over 60 days with a salty tangy
dense creamy taste.  Try our recipe for Spicy Baked Feta (Feta Psiti).
Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering - Equinox, a hard, six month aged
raw goat's milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for
Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.
West River Creamery has tangy Cambridge with Red Pepper Flakes.  Try our
recipe for Spicy Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous
Bleu de Gaf.  Try our recipe for Bleu de Gaf Cheese Burgers.
All Natural Chicken, Duck from KNK Poultry - Try our recipes for Chris'
Chicken Legs and Thighs and Peking Duck.
Pastured Poultry from Joint Ventures Farm - Try our recipe for Smoked Herb
Chicken.
All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Taco Salad.
Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Bacon, Potato and Egg Taco Ole.
3 Corner Field Farm,  Lamb - Try our recipe for Simple Lamb Chops.
Argyllshire Lamb - Try our recipe for Ground Lamb Turkish Rissoles.
Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Marinated Ribeye and
Dijon Grilled Pork Chops.
Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Spiced Roast Beef and
Vegetables
Harry's Honey House - Try our recipe for Chili and Honey Lamb Marinade..
Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Spicy Maple Walnuts.

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:
Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a
price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy
costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they
were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty
breads had a large increase.
Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS:
Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique
flavor which comes from their kind of milk.
Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery.
Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery.
All Natural POULTRY
All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK
Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural,
Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers
poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones.
All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of
turkey sausages - Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian:
Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey
breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of
Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category.
Fresh EGGS
Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds
is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range.  Currently they have
only large/extra large eggs!
LAMB
USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a
small amount of grain as a supplement to the grasses and hay and can be
found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.
USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.  This lamb can be
found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and finished category.  We are happy to add
Barbara's products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is
open for business too.  BEEF and PORK
USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is
100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have
a pasture too but are fed with corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in
winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished
and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic
by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or
our pigs.
We have all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our
offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their
small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100%
grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for
suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to
commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit
the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or
genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their
fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified
organic but operate using what they consider 'best practices' for the
animals and the environment.
OTHER PRODUCTS
Harry's Honey House has amazing honey products.
Sugar Mill Farm has delicious maple syrup.
We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our
regions fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we
also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our
coordination with everyone.
Don't forget, the next order deadline is July 25th at midnight, and delivery
is on July 30th.
Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a
disruption to all of the farms involved


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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#237 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Thu Jul 9, 2009 4:16 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder for July 16, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for July 16th
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday, July
16th. The order deadline is on Saturday, July 11th at midnight.  We are
proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions
fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy them all.
We are happy to report that the Paypal link is fixed!
Our new offering of Jams & Chutney from Beth's Farm Kitchen is now available
for ordering.  They have 61 products and we have chosen 10 to begin with and
hope our initial flavor choices spark your interest.  Beth's Farm Kitchen
also attends the Union Square and 114th Street Greenmarket.  You still have
time to edit your order.  We'll add more flavors later as the new fruits
ripen.
We received a new shipment of Pork from our processor and it's on the
website!
Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is July 11th, and delivery is on July
16th.
Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
Nancy and Alan Brown


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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#236 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Tue Jul 7, 2009 8:09 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for July 16, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Don’t forget, the next order deadline is July 11th at midnight, and delivery is on July 16th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

       

Now the CSA season is officially here and CSA Lewis Waite Farm has delivered once to all the sites around the city. This is the sixth year we have brought the products from our upstate region to your sites. We now have 22 farms and food processors offering products throughout the year. Some are tiny and some large but all are producing quality products that they are proud of.  Our routes through the city delivering orders to your CSA site are often 12 – 15 stops long falling between the two rush hours.  We are proud that we have at least one CSA in each of the 5 Boroughs.  We can also claim that we have not missed a delivery due to the terrible weather or any other catastrophe. 

We would like to include a schedule for your site in this email, a preview of some new items we are working on providing and an update about Charles Jacien.

Here is the schedule of deliveries and order deadlines for your site so you can mark your calendars with our order and deadline dates.

Thursday  ALL   Order deadline 
July 16, 2009   July 11, 2009  
July 30, 2009   July 25, 2009  
August 13, 2009 August 8, 2009 
August 27, 2009 August 22, 2009
September 10, 2009      September 5, 2009      
September 24, 2009      September 19, 2009     
October 8, 2009 October 3, 2009
October 22, 2009        October 17, 2009       
November 5, 2009        October 31, 2009       
November 19, 2009       November 14, 2009      
November 21, 2009       November 14, 2009      
               

Our new pastured chicken will be available through the warmer months of the year. Gary and Mariann are raising a batch of pastured roasting birds every month and we will be offering these to you as they become available. There are a few larger chickens left from their May flock. See them under Chicken, Pastured Poultry.

Charles Jacien of Rudi’s Lakeside Garden has not had new jam to offer for a while. We still have some in stock but when those items are gone, we will be out of all these varieties. Charles is slowing down his jam and sauce making operation now that his full time job is taking up too much of his time. We wish him the best and always enjoyed his imaginative products; many were hand picked by him.

We have been referred to Beth’s Farm Kitchen who some of you may be familiar with since Beth attends the Union Square Greenmarket. Once we finally arrange to have some here jams and chutneys, we will be offering them instead. She is in Columbia County and also uses local fruits and products for her jams. We will have more info soon.

New Products:

Our new granola product made in Vermont has been very popular. The Vermont Maple Granola Company is run by 2 women from Manchester Center VT.  Their Artisan Crafted Granola is sweetened only with pure Vermont maple syrup. It is handmade in small batches using whole grain oats, a variety of nuts, seeds, and dried fruits. It is slow baked to create a crisp and light texture.

We are offering 3 flavors:

Wild Blueberry Flax made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil, Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Sweetened Dried Maine Blueberries (blueberries, sugar, sunflower oil), Sliced Almonds, Ground Flaxseed, Sea Salt.

Cranberry Nut made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil, Sunflower Seeds, Sweetened Dried Maine cranberries (cranberries, sugar, sunflower oil), Pecans, Sliced Almonds, Sea Salt.

Maple Oat Nut made with Rolled Oats, pure VT Maple Syrup, Canola Oil, Pecans, Sliced Almonds, Hazelnuts, Sea Salt.

We are introducing a new Pastured Chicken provider in Easton, New York.  Joint Venture Farm is about 3 miles from Lewis Waite Farm and raises hay, sweet corn, pumpkins, feeder pigs, pastured chickens and fresh eggs. Gary and MaryAnn are the second generation to live on the farm that once was a small dairy operation.

Recipes: Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Feta, Cow's milk 1/2 lb.  Try our recipe for Three Onion Pie with Feta.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Feta, Greek style 1/2 lb blocks.  Try our recipe for Spinach salad with Baked Goat Cheese.

3 Corner Field Farm has Battenkill Bleu, a blue-veined, aged cheese made from the raw milk of Ayrshire & Guernsey cows from a local farm.  Try our recipe for Farfalle with Blue Cheese, Roasted Shallots and Asparagus

All Natural Chicken, Duck - Try our recipes for Roasted Herb Chicken & Potatoes and Duck with Honey

All Natural Turkey -Try our recipe for Turkey Sausage ‘n Veggies Wrap.

Our natural Eggs - Try our recipe for Baked Eggs with Spinach.

3 Corner Field Farm , Lamb - Try our recipe for Lamb Chops with Herbed Sweet Onion Compote.

Argyllshire Lamb  - Try our recipe for Roast Leg of Lamb.

Lewis Waite Farm, Beef and Pork - Try our recipes for Sirloin Tip with Horseradish Butter Sauce and Pâté de Campagne.

Mack Brook Farm, Angus Beef - Try our recipe for Kebobs

Harry’s Honey House - Try our recipe for Honey Mango Chutney Marinade.

Sugar Mill Farm, Maple syrup. -  Try our recipe for Vermont Maple Syrup Cheesecake.

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS:

Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery.  Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery. 

All Natural POULTRY

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones. 

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category. 

Fresh EGGS

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range.  Currently they have only large/extra large eggs!   

LAMB

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the grasses and hay and can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category. 

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.  This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and finished category.  We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too.  BEEF and PORK

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are fed with corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs. 

We have all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment. 

OTHER PRODUCTS

Harry’s Honey House has amazing honey products. 

Sugar Mill Farm has delicious maple syrup. 

We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is July 11th at midnight, and delivery is on July 16th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

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#235 From: "Carmen" <ino464@...>
Date: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:58 pm
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Hi Nancy,

I'd like to be added to the list for next season.

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Carmen

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#234 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:04 pm
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To further complicate your order deadline blues for Saturday night we have a request concerning the West River Creamery and Consider Bardwell cheeses.

We meet these two farms with their cheese orders on Sunday at the Dorset Farmers Market. They need some time to gather their items or wrap newly cut cheese for us as they both also have a farmers market on Saturday. If you could place your orders for these items by Friday morning first thing, it would be helpful for them to prepare and have the order ready by Sunday morning. For orders placed after that hopefully they will have the cheese with them on Sunday. Both these farms are at least 45 minutes from here, so it saves a lot of driving for them to deliver.

Thanks for your consideration and help.

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

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#233 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:13 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or June 25, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for June 25th

We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Thursday, June
25th. The order deadline is on Saturday, June 20th at midnight.  We are
proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions
fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope
to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination
with everyone.

We have expanded our offering this season with pastured whole chickens from
Joint Venture Farm in Easton NY and with Vermont Maple Granola in Manchester
VT.

We will be receiving a shipment of Beef from our processor on Thursday, June
18th and will get it on the Website as soon as possible!

Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!

Don't forget, the next order deadline is June 20th, and delivery is on June
25th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

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Nancy and Alan Brown

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

www.lewiswaitefarm.com

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#229 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Mon May 11, 2009 3:21 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or May 19, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Dear Members, CSA order reminder for May 19th
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Tuesday, May
19th. The order deadline is on Thursday, May 14th at midnight.
We are proud of the farm network we have created to provide you some of our
regions fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy all our products.

We hope to expand our offering this season with pastured whole chickens from
Joint Venture Farm in Easton NY and with Vermont Maple Granola in Manchester
VT. We'll tell you more about them soon.
Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as it can be at
times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is May 14th, and delivery is on May
19th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown


Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm.com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

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#228 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Mon May 4, 2009 7:25 pm
Subject: Inwood CSA order reminder for May 19th 		nkdbrown@...
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Hi, Members

April has been a tease of beautiful days and chilly temperatures. I guess it keeps the bugs away and the early spring transplanting season extended. One of the hardest things we did recently was to rip up an established but way overgrown raspberry patch. With nowhere to put a hundred old bushes, it was tough to pull them (they are very shallow rooted) and pile them in the truck to take down the road to the brush pile. The lucky part of the day was when a customer came for some beef on Saturday, and we were in the midst of pulling plants I asked them if they wanted some and they did!! Luckily again, they had a pickup truck and we filled the back with plants and off they went, all excited about their new berry patch! Last year we offered everyone we saw some plants and no one wanted to come and get them. This year, after agonizing all year long about having to throw the plants away, they are gone. We thanked them for the delicious summer and fall berries and said good-bye! Next to go - the blackberry sprouts! The original 6 foot square plot is expanding around the edges and since the canes on the bush grow to be 6 to 12 feet long, they end up in your face when you are mowing the lawn around them. The sprouts will surely find homes too since the berries are as big as your thumb. Now the empty space can be begin to be the herb and perma-culture garden. Bring on the rhubarb and we hope to find a white or black currant too.

We are making a big mess in the front of the house too; digging up the stone walk which is half buried in sod and moving the stones to the pathway being worn in the grass. The shrub garden beside the walk had been growing and forcing you to walk farther out from the stone path. These stones were a real find for Alan years ago. When the road crews were tearing up the old stone sidewalks in the village and preparing to replace them with concrete, Alan was on hand with a truck to happily take them right on home for his walkways. He made steps, walks, and used them to top the stone walls in front of the house. Then again last year, we heard that the village of Ft Edward was ripping up their stones too and giving them to the homeowners along the route. A couple of friends did not want theirs, so off Alan went with a trailer and the crew to load them. The projects with these stones are still on the drawing board. They are large, 48" x 36" and are only an inch or so thick but they are very heavy. We will be landscaping a whole lot this spring!

In the midst of all this, we co mingled the pigs yesterday accidentally. There are three generations now; 8 big ones, 10 teenagers, and 6 little ones. The smaller ones were in the barn stalls getting used to us and the routine here, so they were mixed with the teens in the barnyard area so they could all learn about the electric fences. When I opened the door in the upstairs of the barn to feed them some treats, the black pig got spooked and bolted through the gate into the pasture and let all the other pigs out too. So for the second day now they are running around chasing each other, sniffing each other and otherwise getting to know each other. They have 3 separate places to sleep until they begin mixing and with their different sizes, it is actually easier for them as the pecking order is fairly obvious. They are still pretty tired at night!

The best news of the week is that Alan's favorite tractor's engine block returned home today from the machinist. It was supposed to be there for a couple of days and come back, put back together and run again. But a couple days turned into a couple of weeks. So now Colin and Joe and Alan will have dirty greasy hands for a few days until it is running smoothly. The beauty of the older John Deere tractors is their simplicity. They are easy to work on and repair and hence there are many old 1940 and 1950 tractors still doing farm work around here. We have nine of them; most working and some in various states of repair or used for parts. The old ones have a distinctive put-put from their 2 cycle engines and have a top speed of 12 miles an hour. Haying takes a long time around here!

Well, back to work while the rain has quit temporarily - to the shovels and stones.

Lynn Collins of Pond View Farm in Cambridge, NY has joined our group of farms by offering her small flock of ducks’ eggs to our array of products. The ducks are the French Breed, Muscovy, which means “mosquito eaters”. They are totally free-range and as Lynn says they will fly to their pond whenever they feel threatened or want a cooling summer swim. They get much of their feed from grazing but they also get cracked corn and scratch feed such as oats, wheat, corn fed to them daily. Lynn gets their feed from the Elsworth’s Farm (where we get our pigs’ feed) because they grow non GMO crops. 

The hens can weigh as much as 8-10 lbs and the drakes are larger at 14 to 15 pounds. They are born in a variety of colors. They are also prolific in their hatching and very successful in raising their families.

The duck eggs are jumbo sized and are especially good for baking according to Lynn, and they also taste great fried or scrambled just like chicken eggs. These eggs are very fresh. We will be sure to label these for you so they do not get mixed up with the eggs from Cornell Farm. Something new to try!!

In the winter months, some of the goats at Gillis Acres Farm take a break and the milking activity is less. With a smaller batch of milk Ave has to determine how much milk to pasteurize, how much to use to make fresh cheese and other of the fresh products like cottage cheese. We would like those members interested in continuing to purchase Goat’s milk and Goat’s milk cottage cheese to either enter a standing order for the months ahead (we can assist with this) or use the schedule below to have your order entered by these order deadlines. This will give Ave and Brian from Gillis Acres Farm time to fit the milk orders into their pasteurizing schedule and help them have a day off this winter.  These dates pertain ONLY to Goat’s milk and Goat’s milk cottage cheese!

Date to order by        Delivery date  
Saturday, May 9, 2009   Tuesday, May 19, 2009  
PS. Once you have a standing order, you will use the See My Existing Orders menu choice to Edit your order to add other items to each months order. You can only have one order number per delivery.

Our farms are still offering their delicious products:

Bread from Rock Hill Bakehouse, Rock Hill Bakehouse has also announced a price increase for the breads. Wheat prices are soaring, gas and energy costs too as we all know and after quite a while without an increase, they were forced to make changes for all the breads but some of the specialty breads had a large increase.

Artisan CHEESE and DAIRY PRODUCTS:

Each of these soft, fresh, and harder aged cheeses and yogurts has a unique flavor which comes from their kind of milk.

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product.

Cows milk cheeses made by Consider Bardwell Farm and West River Creamery.  Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm and West River Creamery. 

Consider Bardwell Farm has a new offering – Equinox, a hard, six month aged raw goat’s milk cheese, similar to Romano or Asiago.  Try our recipe for Broccoli Rabe with Equinox Cheese.

West River Creamery has tangy Feta, Cow's milk 1/2 lb.  Try our recipe for Three Onion Pie with Feta.

Goats milk products made by Gillis Acres Farm.  Gillis Acres has a marvelous Feta, Greek style 1/2 lb blocks.  Try our recipe for Spinach salad with Baked Goat Cheese.

3 Corner Field Farm has Battenkill Bleu, a blue-veined, aged cheese made from the raw milk of Ayrshire & Guernsey cows from a local farm.  Try our recipe for Farfalle with Blue Cheese, Roasted Shallots and Asparagus

All Natural POULTRY

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product.

All Natural Chicken, Duck - whole or parts of chicken, whole duck from KNK Poultry under the categories, Chicken All Natural KNK, Duck All Natural, Turkey All Natural KNK. This processor is NY State certified and offers poultry from farms who feed no antibiotics or growth hormones.  Try our recipes for Roasted Herb Chicken & Potatoes and Duck with Honey.

All Natural Turkey items processed with no nitrites include a variety of turkey sausages – Cajun, Hot Italian, Mild Breakfast and Sweet Italian: Ground turkey in all dark meat and mixed dark and light turkey; Turkey breast fresh frozen and smoked.  Stonewood Farm is certified by the State of Vermont and is found under the Turkey All Natural Stonewood category.  Try our recipe for Turkey Sausage ‘n Veggies Wrap.

Fresh EGGS

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

Our natural Eggs are collected by Cornell Farms. The feed for all the birds is raised at the farm and the birds are free-range.  Currently they have only large/extra large eggs!    Try our recipe for Baked Eggs with Spinach.

LAMB

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

USDA processed Lamb is offered by 3 Corner Field Farm. Their lambs eat a small amount of grain as a supplement to the grasses and hay and can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed category.  Try our recipe for Lamb Chops with Herbed Sweet Onion Compote.

USDA processed Lamb is also offered by Argyllshire Lamb.  This lamb can be found under the Lamb, Grass-Fed and finished category.  We are happy to add Barbara’s products as her small herd is growing and her Bed & Breakfast is open for business too.  Try our recipe for Roast Leg of Lamb.

BEEF and PORK

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product.

USDA processed Beef and Pork are raised by Lewis Waite Farm. The beef is 100% grass and hay fed with trace minerals from kelp and salt. The pigs have a pasture too but are fed with corn, soybeans, hay and kelp (especially in winter). These items can be found under the Beef, Grass Fed Grass Finished and the Pork, All Natural, Pastured. Our farmland is now Certified Organic by NOFA-NY. To be clear, we have do not have certification for our cattle or our pigs.  Try our recipes for Sirloin Tip with Horseradish Butter Sauce and Pâté de Campagne.

We have all Grass-Fed Angus Beef from Mack Brook Farm to supplement our offerings and to help this farm get started retailing their own beef. Their small herd is growing. Their goal is to provide our customers with 100% grass fed and finished; pasture-based Angus beef (a breed chosen for suitability to our climate) that is a tastier and healthier alternative to commercially raised beef, while practicing farming techniques that benefit the environment. Their cattle DO NOT get antibiotics, growth hormones, or genetically modified feed. Our cattle DO GET grass and hay from only their fields, acres of pasture to wander, and lots of TLC. They are not certified organic but operate using what they consider ’best practices’ for the animals and the environment.  Try our recipe for Kebobs.

OTHER PRODUCTS

Recipes can be found on the website adjacent to the suggested product

Harry’s Honey House has amazing honey products.  Try our recipe for Honey Mango Chutney Marinade.

Sugar Mill Farm has delicious maple syrup.  Try our recipe for Vermont Maple Syrup Cheesecake.

We are proud of the 14 farm network we have created to provide you some of our regions fresh and family grown products. We hope you enjoy then all and we also hope to expand our offering as time goes by and we get better at our coordination with everyone.

Don’t forget, the next order deadline is May 14th at midnight, and delivery is on May 19th.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders can be a disruption to all of the farms involved

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834

Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork

www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 

www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 


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#227 From: "Nancy K Brown" <nkdbrown@...>
Date: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:26 pm
Subject: RE: Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or April 21, 2009 		nkdbrown@...
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Robert,

 

This is actually the next to last extras (not veggie) delivery of the winter season.  We will also be delivering on May 19th.  Any further questions, please feel free to call. 

 

Thanks for supporting local agriculture,

 

Chris

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich,  NY  12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefarm.com 
www.lewiswaitefarm.com 

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208
 

From: Robert Schwab [mailto:rschwab@...]
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 3:15 PM
To: inwoodcsa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [inwoodcsa] Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or April 21, 2009

 




Is this the first food delivery of the season?

Robert Schwab

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From: Nancy K Brown <nkdbrown@lewiswaitefarm.com>
Subject: [inwoodcsa] Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or April 21, 2009
To: "'Nancy K Brown'" <nkdbrown@lewiswaitefarm.com>
Cc: inwoodcsa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:57 PM

Dear Members, CSA order reminder for April 21st
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Tuesday, April
21st. The order deadline is on Thursday, April 16th at midnight. We thank
you for indulging us an extra day for preparation of the orders as the
number of farms we coordinate with has increased and the number of orders
has increased. Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as
it can be at times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is April 16th, and delivery is on
April 21st.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefa rm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich, NY 12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefa rm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm. com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208

 


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#226 From: Robert Schwab <rschwab@...>
Date: Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:14 pm
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Is this the first food delivery of the season?

Robert Schwab

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Subject: [inwoodcsa] Inwood CSA order deadline reminder or April 21, 2009
To: "'Nancy K Brown'" <nkdbrown@...>
Cc: inwoodcsa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 2:57 PM

Dear Members, CSA order reminder for April 21st
We are writing this reminder for our delivery coming up on Tuesday, April
21st. The order deadline is on Thursday, April 16th at midnight. We thank
you for indulging us an extra day for preparation of the orders as the
number of farms we coordinate with has increased and the number of orders
has increased. Thank you for your support, we love our farm life, as busy as
it can be at times!
Don't forget, the next order deadline is April 16th, and delivery is on
April 21st.

Please remember to place your orders on time as late orders are a disruption
to all of the farms involved.

www.csalewiswaitefa rm.com

Nancy and Alan Brown

Alan & Nancy Brown
135 Lewis Hill Lane
Town of Jackson
Greenwich, NY 12834
Lewis Waite Farm
Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Beef
Natural Pork
www.csalewiswaitefa rm.com
www.lewiswaitefarm. com

518-692-3120 or 518-692-9208




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