The Soul Food Farm CSA launched October 7, 2009 with our first delivery at my house in Emeryville, during a very difficult time — about a month after the devastating fire that crippled the farm. It’s still a work in progress, jerry-rigged from Google Docs and emails and the vast patience of our 150+ subscribers. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the CSA category.
Soul Food Farm CSA membership offered as part of Menu for Hope raffle
Anita and Cameron, of Married …with dinner San Francisco food blog fame, have been staunch supporters of Soul Food Farm throughout this difficult year — coming out to the farm to build chicken houses after the fire, serving as a CSA pickup site for our first San Francisco drop, and helping to publicize the CSA [...]
Chicken tips
A couple of CSA members have asked me about freezing/storing the fresh chickens. They are fine in the fridge for 3-5 days, I have cooked mine up to 7 days after getting. I always rinse inside and outside and pat them dry before cooking regardless. If you are going to freeze, I think best to [...]
Blog post and email from happy CSA customers
Soul Food Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture program has just completed seven weekly deliveries, and so far most have gone smoothly. (There was that one time the Bay Bridge was closed unexpectedly due to a rolled truck, and Eric had to turn around and drive all the way through Marin to get to Potrero Hill.) Our [...]
Soul Food Farm around the Web
We’re very excited to report that the New York Times Magazine will be running a profile of Soul Food Farm in the next month or so. (Update: It’s here!) There’s been a flurry of coverage in recent weeks, which is good news for the farm and the CSA.
An epic piece detailing the fire and the [...]
Soul Food Farm CSA must launch on schedule
Back in slightly less dire days, Alexis and I were working on launching a Community Supported Agriculture program for Soul Food Farm — a chicken & egg CSA. I thought we would have to put this on hold because of the fire, but she has told me that the chicks she had earmarked for the [...]
