Evermore Farm 2012 Half-Year Buying Club

Thank you for your interest in the Evermore Farm Meat, Poultry, & Egg Half-Year Buying Club. This program helps service our customers once we're no longer at the farmers' markets or for those who prefer to purchase their meats in quantity with the convenience of a monthly pick-up.

Meat CSAs have emerged in response to increasing demand for foods produced locally and with concern for the surrounding environment. As consumers have learned more about the environmental and health risks associated with raising food animals in large, overcrowded CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), they have sought out meats and eggs produced in ways that avoid these costly problems.

“Smart” pasture operations like Evermore Farm not only raise a variety of animals using low-cost grasses for feed, but also improve animals’ health, maximize cost-efficiency, and minimize farm pollution. Animals’ health improves because they are allowed to move around outdoors, and cattle and sheep are better able to digest grasses than grain-based feed. Efficiency is maximized because well-managed pastures require less maintenance, energy, pesticides, and water than feed crops, are less susceptible to erosion, and absorb more of the nutrients applied to them. And pollution is minimized because manure, which CAFOs produce in unmanageable and

hazardous quantities, can be used to fertilize pastures or nearby crops in the smaller quantities generated by pasture-based farms. Furthermore, grass-fed beef and milk are often more nutritious than beef and milk from CAFOs.

Orders may be placed in 3 month increments at any one of our three size tiers: 7, 15, or 22 lbs. To ensure that the best cuts are shared fairly, we will track what was given to you in previous orders and try not to duplicate the same cut in your next month’s order. The exception to this will be our wonderfully lean ground beef- that will be included each month. Each pick-up will also include a farm newsletter and tasty recipe ideas for preparing our pasture-raised meat and eggs.

The pick-up location will be at the farm the second Saturday of each month (December through May) from 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM.  For more information, please contact Ginger Myers at ginger@evermorefarm.com or visit our website at www.evermorefarm.com. This form is for Dec-February.  Renewal opportunities will be offered in February.

Here's the plan:

____  Small - 7 lbs (3-4 lb beef, remainder in pork and lamb), $59.50/mo: Total for 3 months = $178.50

____  Medium - 15 lbs (8lb beef, remainder in pork and lamb), $115/mo: Total for 3 months= $360

____  Large - 22 lbs (12 lb beef, 7 lb pork, 3lb lamb), $165/mo: Total for 3 months = $495

Egg  Shares:

____   1 dozen per month $4/month: Total for 3 months = $12          

____   2 dozen per month $3.80/month: Total for 3 months= 22.80           

____   3 dozen per month $3.60/month:  Total for 3 months= $32.40          

_______    Add a Free-Ranger Whole Chicken to My Meat Share. Chicken shares only available coupled with a meat  share. Individual chickens also for sale at farm.  Share price $17.50 each (4.5-5.0 lbs)  per month:  Total for 3 months = $52.50

Order deadline is November 12, 2011. Please print and send this form with a check or money order for the appropriate amount payable to Evermore Farm to: Ginger Myers, Evermore Farm,150 Rockland Road, Westminster, MD 21158

Credit Cards are accepted but all Credit Card purchases will be charged an additional $10 to cover our processing fees. 

Download the Evermore Farm 2012 Half-Year Buying Club Form Here.

Thanks again for your interest and if you have further questions contact me at ginger @evermorefarm.com or 443-398-6548.
Ginger S. Myers