Moon on the Meadow

Farm Address:

1515 E. 11th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66046

Contact Information:

Jill Elmers
Phone: (h) 785-749-1197 or (c) 913-529-9425
Email

CSA Distribution Info:

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Share Structure:

SUMMER CSA (week of May 8 – week of October 29, weather depending)

Number of shares offered for 2012 Summer CSA: 100

FULL SHARE…………………$428 ($1-per-week discount if full share amount paid in full at sign-up).
$80 due at sign-up ($12 non-refundable membership fee + $68 for May).

AUTUMN CSA (week of November 5 – week of December 17, weather depending)

Number of shares offered for 2012 Autumn CSA: 40

FULL SHARE…………………$112, due at sign-up.

If you would like to arrange monthly payments, $80 is due at sign-up (this is the first month’s payment + your $12 membership fee), with the remaining balance split up into monthly payments.

Work-shares can also be arranged; contact Jill for details.

What can members expect in their share?

Through Common Harvest Farms, CSA members will receive a bag each week of seasonal produce that is fresh and ready to eat from the fields of Common Harvest Farms’ three farms in Douglas County. The bag will typically contain 6-8 different items of a variety of vegetables, herbs, some small fruit, and sometimes eggs. Quantities are always a manageable size, and generally based on the amount required for a typical four-serving recipe.

Every ten days or so, CSA members will receive e-newsletters featuring news from the farm, information about the different types of veggies, tips for produce preparation and storage, and recipes to try.

If CSA members don’t let Jill know ahead of time that they won’t be able to pick up (or arrange for someone else to pick up) their share for a particular week, their share that week will be donated to a charitable organization.

What makes Moon on the Meadow’s CSA unique:

Jill Elmers has been farming for nine years, and started Moon on the Meadow’s CSA in 2006. Located within the Lawrence city limits, Moon on the Meadow attained organic certification in 2007. In 2010, Jill joined with the Buller family to buy another farm just down the road, adding 34 acres to the farm and creating Common Harvest Farms — now providing chickens, perennial asparagus and rhubarb, and heirloom wheat for flour. This year the new farm will be eligible for organic certification, too. Red Tractor Farm, run by Jessica Pierson (a former apprentice at Moon on the Meadow) and Jen Humphrey, will also supply some of the weekly share from their sustainable farm on the south side of Clinton Lake.

This year, Moon on the Meadow will host several volunteer days at the farm as well as an open house sometime mid-season. Dates and details TBA.

Volunteers who are interested in learning more about how the farm works are always welcome; contact Jill for information.