Monday, March 25, 2013

Buy a farm share!

We have quite a few different types of shares, so please see the following links to find the right share for you and your family. Remember, you can still buy from the farm even if you don't have a share, either at farmers market May through October or via our online sales system for pickup on Wednesdays. If you have any questions, visit our FAQ page, and if your questions aren't answered there, please feel free to contact us.

Online Sales and Winter Shares
Market Shares
Summer Shares
Working Shares and Helping Shares


Thursday, March 21, 2013

Local Food "Speed Dating"

This Sunday in Ann Arbor, Stone Coop Farm will be participating in the Spring CSA Fair sponsored by Slow Food Huron Valley. We will be there with two dozen other farmers to talk with local folks about buying locally and helping them to find the right farm for them and their families. For more information on the CSA Fair, check out the link below:

Slow Food Spring CSA Fair

The fair is on Sunday, March 24 from 2pm to 4pm at the following address:
Pittsfield Union Grange, 3337 Ann Arbor-Saline Road, Ann Arbor

Friday, March 1, 2013

Food Rescue

Here at the farm, we try to limit food waste as much as possible. Anything we cannot sell we give to folks helping out on the farm or eat ourselves. What is leftover from that (one can only eat so much kale, after all) we give to our chickens whenever possible. However, there are some things they don't eat, especially anything that is difficult for their beaks to peck through. Inevitably, we end up tossing produce into the compost, which, though it is not an entire waste, is not an efficient or desirable use of the nutrients and calories the food contains. Just this week, however, we have found a solution: Pigs to the rescue!

Another local farm and good friends of ours - Valley View Organic Farm - is raising organic, hormone-free pigs. These delightful porkers are more than happy to devour our organic produce that was destined for the compost pile. Not only does the produce enrich the diet of the pigs, but the nutrients and calories are put to good use, producing meat for the local community and income for a fellow farmer. If you'd like to order organic pork from Mark at Valley View, be sure to check out his website (linked above) for more information.

-Shannon