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Eating Local, Eating Organic

Everyone wants to eat food that is delicious, nutritious and grown as close to home as possible. Unfortunately, most of the food served today travels thousands of miles, by unknown faces.  Until now - JenEhr Family Farm, located just outside Sun Prairie, offers organic fresh harvested fruits and vegetables for your family's dinner table.

But it's more than just local.  You can find local at some farmers' market in the area every day of the week.  It's about your family's food raised without the use of harmful chemicals (herbicides, insecticides, rodenticides and petro-chemical based fertilizers).  It's about daily meals that nourish your body grown in accordance with reduced inputs, solid crop rotation practices that control weeds and insects.  It's about following a strict set of growing standards, with an annual inspection that assures you that each morsel you consume is unaltered and healthy as possible.  JenEhr Family Farm CSA is one sure way to make sure that each meal is high in nutrition and flavor, while non-exsistent in harmful chemicals. JenEhr is a certified organic farm, with 110 certified organic acres used to grow your food in combination with solid rotations, poultry pasture, fallowed land and conservation and

Diversity is Key

CSA is about eating seasonally, eating locally and eating organically.  It's about knowing your farmers, their families, staff and the land on which they farm.  It's about feeling good that each week your CSA share is full of produce grown by those farmers on their farm. At JenEhr, our commitment to you is that everything in your share is grown, harvested and packaged by us, here at the farm.

Inside your share, you will find a wide range of vegetables and fruits.  Some so very familiar, others brand new and unknown.  But all of them are suited to growing organically here in Southern Wisconsin.  All of them harvested at their ripiest, juciest and best tasting, at their highest level of nutrition and taste.  During the course of the 22 week season, you'll find more than 50 different vegetables or fruit in your boxes.  You'll find enough produce for family meals, neighborhood barbeques and gala feasts.  For most families, each share contains enough to start putting small amounts of produce aside for the cold winter months of Wisconsin.

Amidst that diversity is a weekly newsletter that gives you loads of recipes for cooking, serving and preserving your bounty.  The emailed newsletter arrives at your inbox before you pick up your weekly share, giving you heads up to what's coming and what you might want to have on hand for your menu, meal and shopping planning.  Plus, a bonus website feature about the farm and cooking tips, available only to JenEhr CSA members.

Why CSA Matters

There are a number of ways you can get your daily food needs. Grocery stores, coops, farmers markets, delis, restaurants and the list continues.  But CSA is different.  CSA is about making a political and economic statement all while eating really well.  It's about voting with your food dollars, that you want to eat food that is produced locally and organically by farmers you know and trust.  It's about adding a real face and real lives to your daily meals.  It's about keeping your food dollars in your own community, county and state.  It's about money that multiplies through local stores, banks and schools instead of fleeing the state to reside far off places.

When you become a CSA member, you are making a commitment to feeding yourself and your family better.  You are making a commitment paying a fair price for the labor of the farmers who feed you.  You are chosing clean water, less toxic soil along with healthier lives for those who grow your food and everyone who lives downstream.  Joining JenEhr's organic CSA is about making a choice to live better, healthier and more sustainably.  Congratulations.

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Lots of Pick Up Locations

Unlike many area CSA's, JenEhr does not offer neighborhood pick up locations.  We believe strongly that you as a CSA member wants to visit the farm, talk with someone directly related to the farm intimately.  So JenEhr pick up locations are based around where our knowledgeable staff can answer your questions, provide cooking direction and converse about the weather, the season and the items in your CSA share.  Pick up becomes an opportunity to become more intimately involved with your CSA farm.

Madison Area Pick Ups include:

JenEhr Family Farm Directions
6837 Elder Lane, Sun Prairie
Thursdays, 3PM to 7PM

Westside Community Market
Corner Segoe and University in the HillFarms neighborhood
Saturdays, 7AM to 10:30AM

Milwaukee Area Pick Ups include:

Good Harvest Market Directions
Hwy T and Silvernail Road in Pewaukee
Thursdays, 3PM to 7PM

West Allis Farmers Market Directions
National and 64th in West Allis
Thursdays, noon to 5PM

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What to Expect Each Pick Up

Click here for a listing of produce to expect with each season.

• 5/9 bushel box (6-20lbs) of fresh picked organic fruits and vegetables grown by your local Sun Prairie farm family.
• Produce picked when it's freshest, tastiest and most nutritious.
• No hassles with parking, long cashier lines, carts to maneuver, kids to corral. Pull up and pick up your share of fruits and vegetables.
• Great newsletter each week with recipes for produce in the box, storage tips and fun banter about the farm - emailed Wednesday before pick up.
• U-Pick strawberries and tomatoes are part of your paid half or full share.
• Certified organic produce grown by your neighborhood Sun Prairie farm.
• Buying direct allows you to directly support your local community and be involved in improving your local environment - helping to keep southern Wisconsin green.

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The Share Options

Early Season Greens
May 1 - May 30
The earliest salad and sautee greens possible from the hoophouse. Boxes include salad mix, arugula head lettuce, baby bok choi, rainbow chard, spinach, radishes, salad turnips, herbs and more.
$180

Regular Season Share
June 5 - November 1
Each week's 5/9-bushel box contains the bounty of the garden from that week.  Literally everything from asparagus to zucchini.  A brimming full grocery bag of the freshest organic produce each week.  The ½ share is an every-other-week pick up.
$575

½ share  (every other week)                                                    
$325

Fall Storage Share
November 22 Pick Up
Beets, turnips, carrots, rutabagas, winter squash, fresh greens and more make up this box of vegetables that will help feed your family through the holidays and cold of winter.
$100

Pastured Poultry
April 24 - November 1
Don't forget the meat.  Four to six pound roasting chickens, raised without anti-biotics, on JenEhr organic pasture and with a neighbors corn and soybean feed.  Chickens are processed at an organic USDA inspected facility and fresh frozen for monthly pick up.  Some of the best restaurants in Madison and Milwaukee use only JenEhr chickens.
2 chickens per month - $25

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