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The veggies grown on our farm are certified organic and we buy from organic growers. Any not certified produce are always disclosed as not organic. Meat, cheese, eggs, bread, and other items are locally produced but not always organic. Meat is either organically fed or grass-fed and/or pastured.

Payment options:

• Pay all at once: pay with check (no fee) or credit card (3.5% fee).
• Pay automated installments: Deposit is due at the time of sign up, and your balance due will be divided into monthly payments due at the beginning of each month starting in the month that your program begins. (3.5% fee).
• Pay with monthly checks: send us your deposit and all of your payments on post-dated checks and we will cash them at the beginning of each month. (no fee).

Exactly the amount you want. Our programs are designed to provide the right amount of food for you. Every week you can choose what you need from a variety items.  Some items may have quantity limits to assure availability to more people.

Members place orders each week online spending their membership credits that are issued at the beginning of the season. Minimum order is $40.  Maximum order is $250.  Maximum meat order per order is $200. Order on weeks that work for you. All issued credits must be used by the end of the season.

QUANTITY LIMITS

• This program is designed for members to order on a regular basis. You will notice quantity limitations on some items. We do this for a number of reasons.
  • With fresh produce, we may have limited quantities and want to make sure the most people get a chance to try it. We do our best to have lots of the most popular items and only have to limit some of the less popular.
  • We have limited space available in our delivery truck, so large orders are more difficult for us to manage, especially in the frozen department. Stocking up all at once is hard on us.
  • We are a small business with limited funds, so tying up lots of our cash in inventory can be a challenge.
  • We have limited space to store inventory and keep it safe.
• If you have an item that you would like larger quantities of and is something we bring in from a farm partner, like pasta sauce or salmon patties etc., you can email april@lotfotl.com and request a case for yourself when we next order. When it arrives, we will add it to your next order and send it your way.

The veggies grown on our farm are certified organic and we buy from organic growers. Any not certified produce are always disclosed as not organic. Meat, cheese, eggs, bread, and other items are locally produced but not always organic. Meat is either organically fed or grass-fed and/or pastured.

Below we provide key details about the story of your food. OG=certified organic

Produce: Most of your produce is grown here at LotFotL. We are certified organic.  Any non-organic produce that we bring in is disclosed. We also work with:

• Tipi Produce OG
• Turtle Creek Gardens OG
• Igl Farms OG
• Springdale Farm OG
• River Valley Mushroom Farm – mushrooms are OG
• Red Door Family Farm OG
• Better Way Farms OG
• Apple Barn
• Atoms to Apples OG
• Barnhard Farms
• GrowMicro Farm
• Doudlah Farm Organics OG

Eggs: Most of our eggs are from Prairie Gold in Oconomowoc, WI. OG

Bread:

• Rocket Baby Bakery in Wauwatosa. They do from scratch real deal sour dough loaves. They also source some of their flour from local Wisconsin producers.
• Gitto Farm n’ Kitchen. OG
• Je t’aime Pastry from New Berlin. One of our CSA members that started her own cottage bakery.

Cheese:

• Milwaukee’s Clock Shadow Creamery
• Cedar Grove Cheese. OG options available
• Red Barn Family Farm Cheese
• Hill Valley Dairy

Meat: We buy meat from producers who give priority to a high quality of life for the animal. For example, your 100% grassfed beef may not be certified organic, but it is raised on lush beautiful pasture. We won’t sell you Certified Organic meat just because it is Certified Organic. We choose meat that we would and do feed to our own family.

• Abiding Acres Farm – animals are raised naturally without GMOs, antibiotics and growth hormones. Grass-fed.
• Gitto Farm and Kitchen – grass-fed
• Golden Bear Farm – never feed CORN, SOY, GMO’s, antibiotics, hormones or any processed foods.
• Little Heathens Pasture – regenerative farmers- rotationally grazing livestock, and bolstering immune systems with a nutritious variety of forages. We supplement with quality minerals and herbs to keep our animals thriving and avoid other interventions. Our lambs are whole grassfed lambs. Winter hay is supplemented in the last 3-4 weeks of gestation for the heavily pregnant ewes, providing them with extra needed calories in the way of black oil sunflower seed, and non-gmo or organic grain (barley, oats or wheat).
• Rushing Waters – wild caught salmon patties
• Alden Hills –Moved to fresh pasture daily. OG
• Stock Family Farm – Our chickens are raised outdoors and moved daily to new pasture. They are fed a blend of Organic grains, consume fresh grass, and forage for insects.

Other: Great small scale local producers of shelf stable or artisan edibles.

• Komboocho Brewing
• Press. Waffles
• Cedar Teeth Pizza
• Hometown Sausage
• River Valley Ranch
• Ornery Hill
• Johnny’s Hot Sauce
• Blended House Coffee

Below is a sample of someproduce items you might see in the winter csa program. Produce is most abundant during the first 2 months of the program and there is less variety later in the season.