meat CSAs (which you want to find before its butchered). There also is a person who SPAMs the Boston craigslist with a rental smoker which could fit a mature pig.

Park (literally in the Park near the zoo). GCM is extensive. It includes bakeries, cheese makers, and meat purveyors as well as produce. More importantly, it is all from organic, sustainable local farms. Local chefs frequently do...

don’t know how reliable this information is, but there’s a list of CSAs that deliver to GTA at this link - http://www.greenmeupscotty.ca/online_resources/community_supported_agricul.html

've gotten much more produce from them than we were during the summer. Also fantastic quality. Beautiful delicate tuscan kale... If others have participated in other UWS/Harlem CSAs in particular, I’d love to hear about the...

I too have been thinking about this lately. I have had Stillman’s and Chestnut Farms for meat CSAs but never had a veggie one- just relied on farmer’s markets. I was thinking about Parker Farms but the all Cambridge...

. Fava beans for a few weeks. They also have relationships with other farms that do meat - chicken, beef, pork – so a few times a summer you can order from those farms and just pick up at HVF. Have heard great things about...

For butchers (albeit in Minneapolis), I like Johnson Brothers Meats at 18th and Nicollet. They service many restaurants, but have a small retail counter. Another meat counter in St. Paul that some people like is at Widmer Grocery...

What part of town do you live in? There are community supported agriculture produce baskets (usually veg, sometimes fruit, occasionally organic meats and cheeses) but those can be quite limiting. If not, you’d be better off...

eaters on how to pinch pennies in this inflationary environment. We currently belong to 3 CSAs, Eating with the Seasons, Full Belly Farm and Frog Hollow (for fruit only). We like Eating with the Seasons because it offers choice,...

, truly organic (or at least IPM) food every day of the week within a short subway ride during harvest season. I can get locally made cheese, truly free-range eggs, and grass-fed meat, as well as produce, at the markets. I belong...

Wondering if anyone knows of a farm where I can purchse an entire living animal (chicken, pig, etc) and essentailly pay for it to be raised there (so I can visit it/take pictures) and when it is time to “harvest” the...

assortment of onions and/or potatoes/tomatoes, root vegetables, or even a prepared food like cherry preserves, which are to die for). In addition to getting a Fresh Picks Box, you can order a la carte from their selection of...

My experience with meat is the best way to get local products is to join one of the meat CSAs in the area. Whole Foods carries a selection, but it is not all local. Also, in my own experience (River Rock for beef, now...

. Sulmona is an example of another butcher which buys sides instead/in addition to primal cuts. There are local meat CSAs and if you search nearby craigslist postings (NH, VT, etc) people that regularly offer sides of beef/pork...

Yes,, and to further explain the premise....The following site offers a good description: http://www.localharvest.org/csa/ But a CSA does not have to be just vegetables. There are meat CSAs and this past summer we bought a share