Posted in 'General'

Shambala Permaculture Farm is as much a movement as it is a physical place on Camano Island, Washington. As certified permaculture design consultants, we can help you implement permanent food in your yard—we offer consultations and installations.

We provide the highest-quality permacultural solutions with our interesting selection of useful plants, organic produce, and gluten-free baked goods. We are forging community bonds by opening up dialogue about our environmental and local needs.

We are open daily by advance appointment for grocery and bakery packages, our Food Forest Garden and Farm Animal tours, and wholesale organic edible perennial plants. We are also available to host weddings and other special events.

Shambala Bakery is an evolution of our farm-to-fork journey at Shambala Permaculture Farm on Camano Island. Providing the community nutritional produce and organic edible plants in our nursery farm stand, we introduced our gluten-free, non-GMO, ancient-grain breads in 2013 to an enthusiastic reception. It was evident we could best serve nutritional needs both locally and regionally by providing our unique product dedicated to accommodating folks seeking allergen- and GMO-free breads.

We bring the farm full circle in our new Bistro, offering locally sourced, organic produce in our vegetarian menu.

Vanderpool Gourmet Gardens is a CSA and farm that specializes in gourmet garlic and vegetables. We use sustainable and natural methods to grow our produce and enrich our land and local community. We have a CSA with lots of heirloom vegetables. We also raise honeybees and some fruits. We have a plant nursery and supply local gardeners with heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and herbs. Contact us for a tour of the farm.

We grow over 50 varieties of garlic and can supply you with your needs for both seed garlic and fresh gourmet garlic, including Slow Food Ark of Taste Varieties. Ask about our Garlic of the Month Club!

Waltham Fields Community Farm is the business name of Community Farms Outreach, a 501c3 organization. We encourage healthy relationships between people, their food supply, and the land from which it grows.

We are focused on supporting local hunger relief and food access efforts by providing fresh produce donations to emergency food programs in the greater Boston area; operating a special farmer’s market for low-income households called the Waltham Fields Outreach Market; engaging in farm-to-school distributions with the Waltham public schools; and offering subsidized and half-price CSA shares. We aim to provide 20% of our harvests of our fresh, organically grown vegetables to our food access efforts.

We also seek to reconnect people with the knowledge of how food is produced. Children and adults learn about farming and food production, farm-to-table recipe preparation, natural sciences, and environmental stewardship when they come to WFCF to work in the fields and greenhouses and participate in our programming. Guided by experienced staff, field volunteers help sow seeds, transplant seedlings, weed and harvest crops. Educational programs include Children’s Learning Garden Programs, adult workshop offerings, public events, special service learning opportunities, and our farmer training program for people who have had some previous experience on farms or in the sustainable agriculture field and are serious about pursuing farming as a career.

Our CSA share program started in 1997 and continues to be our main revenue-supporting program that supplies over 500 households with fresh, organically grown vegetables throughout the growing season, and half that amount through a winter share program with several distributions in November and December. All pickups take place at the farm and include opportunities to get out into the fields to do some pick-your-own, engage with the land, experience food production first-hand, and enjoy some of the precious open space in this highly populated region. Our CSA offers summer shares, winter shares, and flower shares. All of our crops are grown adhering to strict organic production methods.

The Bayfield region of Northern Wisconsin is home to many amazing farms, orchards, and food producers. The Bayfield Food Producers Cooperative makes it easy for you and your customers to enjoy the great food of the region.

The goals of the Co-op are to:

• Develop regional identity for food items produced in Ashland and Bayfield Counties.

• Improve the branding, marketing, and advertising of BRFPC member products.

• Cross-promote products and brands of BRFPC members through collaborative marketing and advertising.

• Facilitate and support strategic partnerships among BRFPC members to increase sales and distribution of food produced in Ashland and Bayfield County.

To meet these goals, the BRFPC creates and implements sales, marketing, and distribution programs to meet the needs of its members. The BRFPC operates the following programs: the Lake Superior CSA, South Shore Meats, and the Bayfield Shores Harvest Trail.

Members choose to participate in any or all of the programs on a fee-for-service basis. In addition, the BRFPC works to find financial and other resources to support individual members.