Meadow Maid Foods Wyoming Farmers Market Natural Vegetables CSA

What is a CSA?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. You purchase a season’s share of food at the beginning of the season. In return, I bring vegetables and grassfed beef for you each week, through the market season.

With CSA, there is no need to be the first one at market to get the best choice. You may come to market at your leisure; your vegetables will be waiting for you.

In a standard CSA share, I select vegetable varieties and bring them to market each week for you, and you come pick them up during market hours. Advantages of CSA shares include:

-no need to be the early-bird to market because your vegetables are set aside for you;

-variety;

-automatic shopping - I do the selection, you just arrive each week for pick-up;

-an opportunity to try unusual varieties, receive recipes and notes from the farm, and to visit the farm.

Disadvantages of a traditional CSA include:

-missing out on part of the harvest if you are out of town;

-receiving varieties that you aren’t fond of;

-wishing you had more of certain vegetables, or lots of beef.

The Subscription CSA is now introduced to address the disadvantages of a standard CSA share.

Subscription CSA - Vegetables, plus Grassfed Beef and Jerky - plus a 10% Discount

As with a standard CSA share, you pay for your membership in advance, but in the Subscription CSA you pay for a debit-style account. I add a ten percent bonus to your membership balance. When you start your membership, you select what you would like each week from our supply of all-natural vegetables, grassfed beef, and our tasty jerky. I subtract your weekly selections from your credit balance.

Your 10% discount generally applies to sale items, too. Your discount is limited to purchases picked up at market.

I will send newsletters prior to each market that we attend, listing the vegetable varieties and beef cuts that will be available. You select the varieties and quantities that you would like, and I will bring them to market for you, holding them until you arrive.

No time to read the newsletter and make your selections? No problem. Just come to market and select from the foods available at our booth. If we plan not to attend market, I will let you know via the e-newsletter, so it does help to check the newsletter briefly. Emergencies may prevent us from attending. We will do our best to contact you.

Where will the Subscription CSA operate?

Fort Collins, CO:

Drake Road Market, Saturdays, May thru September, and

Winter Markets, Saturdays as scheduled at the Opera Galleria:

We have been operating a standard CSA for a number of years in Wyoming. At this time, we will limit the Subscription CSA to Fort Collins only, and we will continue the standard CSA share in Cheyenne and Goshen County, WY.

What happens if I can not take vegetables and/or beef one week?

No problem! Your account balance will stand. Please note that the Subscription CSA account must be utilized within 12 months of purchase date. Balances will not carry forward indefinitely. You will be charged for vegetables if you reserve them but do not collect them at market.

If a life change or other difficulty requires withdrawal from the subscription CSA, a refund may be issued at sole discretion of Meadow Maid^® Foods, LLC.

Is there any “fine print”?

You must utilize your account balance within 12 months of purchase (including your 10% bonus).

All subscription purchases are for farmers’ market pick-up only. No custom beef or deliveries are included.

You should reserve your choices by Wednesday night prior to the next Saturday market so that we may plan your harvest. Reservations made after Wednesday evening may not be filled. Of course, you may always come to market on Saturday and choose selections from the table, without any advance communication.

All reservations are first-come, first-serve, and subject to weather and other unforeseen events. Another subscription member might reserve the last cabbage or Italian sausage before you e-mail your reservation for those items, or hail or deer may strike the gardens. However, your reservations always take priority over the market shoppers.

We may miss market occasionally You will not be charged for any selections that we are unable to deliver to market.

If you reserve vegetables or fruits, and you do not come to market to pick them up on the day reserved, your account will be charged for those selections.

What happens if I try the Subscription CSA, and don’t like it or don’t use it?

You may try to find someone to assume your account balance. If you can do that, then we will discuss issuing you a refund. Refunds are made solely at the discretion of Meadow Maid Foods, llc.

Our Liability

Meadow Maid^® Foods, LLC limits its liability to the full purchase price. In no case shall Meadow Maid Foods, LLC be liable for more than the purchase price of the Subscription CSA share. We reserve the right to terminate any Subscription Share at any time, without prior notice, and our only liability due to the subscriber is the current account balance less the 10% bonus.