KOOKOOLAN FARMS
A small, diversified family farm in Yamhill, Oregon, committed to organic farming practices, rotational grazing, grass-based animal husbandry, humane animal handling practices, and producing the healthiest, best-tasting, premium poultry in Oregon.
SOLD OUT for 2011 -- Email us for current information
Updated 12/5/2011
Thanks for checking: 2011 CSA is end of season. Check back later this winter for details on our 2012 season.
- at our farmstore in Yamhill;
- Intel Ronler Acres RA1 café – available to Intel blue-badge and green-badge only;
- Intel Jones Farm JF3 cafe – available to Intel blue-badge and green-badge only;
- Intel Jones Farm JF5 cafe – available to Intel blue-badge and green-badge only;
- Bijou Cafe in downtown Portland at the corner of southwest 3rd and Pine;
- residential Beaverton address just off the Bethany/Cornell exit of Highway 26;
- residential NE Portland address near the corner of Northeast 48th and Mallory;
- residential SW Portland address near the corner of Southwest Shattock and Patton.
WHAT IS CSA?
CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, is also known as “vegetable box” or “subscription Agriculture.” Like a magazine subscription, you receive your purchase in weekly installments.
Conventional vegetable farmers specialize in a few mainstream crops under contracts with the commodity market, grocery distributors, and perhaps restaurants. We grow a diversity of heirloom produce under contract with individual families.
By paying at the beginning of the season, you receive premium, 100% organically-grown vegetables at more than 50% off retail or farmer’s market prices – overall, about $2 per pound or less for a full season of premium organically grown vegetables, herbs, and fruits. Your savings account may be earning only 1% APR. Instead, put it to work with Kookoolan Farms CSA and earn 100% APR paid in fresh, 100% organically-grown vegetables!
WHAT YOU GET WITH YOUR CSA
• Weekly fresh, 100% organically grown vegetables at significant savings
• “From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce,” 3rd ed, 228 pages. In Farmer Chrissie’s view, this is the finest recipe book available for CSA subscribers. Our free gift to you with your paid subscription.
• Weekly newsletter with share contents and recipes
• Your children will eat more vegetables. Children whose families subscribe to CSA eat more fruits and vegetables and enjoy them more, compared to families not in a CSA.
• First notification for chicken, beef, lamb, pork, turkey, mead, wine club, cheese making and other classes, and other new or special offerings
• The (optional) opportunity to participate in farming.
• A conscious connection between your nearby farmers and you -- the people who eat the food.
WHAT YOU SUPPORT WITH CSA
• Heirloom variety crops and livestock breeds, whose preservation is so important for biodiversity in the world’s food supply.
• Sustainable farming practices and fair wages.
• Food security – your guaranteed share of your farm’s harvest, independent of petroleum prices, politics, and world events.
Salad 100% grown and harvested at Kookoolan Farms. Many people are familiar with the profound difference between shipped, out-of-season tomatoes, and fresh-from-the-vine heirloom tomatoes. Be prepared to experience that same kind of difference in discovering fresh, local, heirloom-variety lettuces, carrots, peppers, and more!
MEET YOUR FARMERS
Married partners Chrissie and Koorosh Zaerpoor are in our sixth year of farming. We are engineers by professional trade, physicists by academic training, and meadmaker and cabinetmaker, respectively, by avocation.
In building the business of Kookoolan Farms, we are committed to creating an economically and biologically diverse and self-sustaining farm, on which heirloom-variety fruits, vegetables, and livestock breeds thrive, in a humane, natural, and healthy cycle of interdepen-dence, shared and enjoyed by its farmers, workers, neighbors, and customers.
We strive to build our farm’s fertility rather than buy it, by composting and recycling natural farm waste and by-products. We buy locally, sell locally, contribute locally, and hire locally.
Our goal is to produce the highest-quality, most nutrient-dense, organically and pasture-raised foods, and to provide our customers with classes and connections to maximize their value and enjoyment of these foods.
Our animals are always humanely and respectfully handled from their first day to their last, free-ranged, pasture-fed, and hormone- and antibiotic-free.
We strive for integrity and craftsmanship in everything we produce. Thank you for your trust in us for the important work of nourishing your family.
HOW MUCH FOOD IS IN A SHARE?
A full size share averages 20 lbs of vegetables each week of the season, or about 400 pounds total. You'll receive 20 share boxes over our 22-week season, with no box at the 4th of July or Labor Day holiday. We endeavor to provide 1 lb. of salad greens, 1.5 lbs. of carrots, 1 lb. of onions (type varies seasonally), and 0.5 to 1 lb. of fresh herbs nearly every week of your subscription period, generally providing 10-15 different crops each week. 20 lbs. a week is about three pounds a day; after trimming, more than two pounds a day, or a half-pound per day per person for a household of four. Our shares are sized for you to enjoy fresh vegetables every week of the season, plus to be able to put up some vegetables for winter consumption (and we provide instructions!) Our 22-week season run beginning of June through end of October.
HOW WE FARM
Kookoolan Farms produces 100% organically grown vegetables and fruits, following traditional practices of rotational planting and grazing, companion planting, cover crops, and many principles of biodynamics.
Nearly unique among organic CSA vegetable farms, our composted manures are entirely produced on our own farm by the animals we husband for milk, meat and eggs. Kookoolan Farms does not purchase manure or compost from Confinement Animal Feedlot Operations (CAFOs).
We follow integrated pest management protocols, relying on row covers and beneficial predators such as chickens and ladybugs to control insects. Our fungicide is a foliar spray of whey from our own dairy cows. Herbicide of pastures, orchard, fenceline, and vegetable gardens is entirely mechanical and never chemical: we cut, till, hand-pull, and use chickens for weed control.
One-third of our acreage is voluntarily conserved in a wild riparian woodlot for wildlife habitat, migratory birds, and carbon capture.
Nutrient-rich water from our milking parlor and on-farm licensed poultry slaughterhouse is captured and recycled to nourish orchard and perimeter trees.
HOW IT WORKS
• You pay $999 for a full-size (20 pounds per week), full-season (20 boxes over 22 weeks) share. This is 400 pounds of organically grown vegetables for only $2.50 per pound.
• Each week during your season, you pick up your box of fresh, 100% organically-grown vegetables!
• Pickup at our farm in Yamhill -- either singly or through buying clubs in neighborhoods throughout the metropolitan area (ask us for matchmaking!)
• Pickup at the RA1 Café office on the Intel Ronler Acres campus in
In buying a CSA share, you agree to share these risks (and potential bounty!) with your farmer. We mitigate these risks by planting more than three hundred different varieties of crops, ensuring that we will have a generous variety and quantity share of vegetables for your family every week.
For more details on our farm enterprises in general and our CSA program in particular, please write us, kookoolan@gmail.com.
ORDER FORM
Only you can put the “C” in CSA! Sign up today!
Thanks for checking: Our fields are now at peak production, and we are gladly accepting late starts to our 2011 CSA Season! We will pro-rate your fee based on the number of weeks remaining in the season. Please email kookoolan@gmail.com or call us (503) 730-7535 today to get started right away. There is no CSA share September 1st due to many customers being away for Labor Day weekend. Our next pickup will be Thursday, September 8th!
Our season is 55% completed, 45% remaining. If you sign up before noon on Tuesday September 6th, you will receive nine more veggie boxes this year, one every Thursday through and including November 3rd. Pro-rated prices published below expire at noon on Tuesday September 6th, 2011.
* Half share, 10 lbs/week, 9 boxes, skipping Labor Day. $292, averages to $3.25 per pound.
* Customize! For $22.50 additional labor charge, you may tell us two vegetables you don't like, and we won't give them to you. And tell us two vegetables you like most, and we'll give you extra each time those two items are included in the box.
* Customize! Add a dozen large eggs every week for 9 weeks, $45/year additional charge.
* Customize! Add 4 oz. fresh "Little Goat Chevre" from Quail Run Creamery every week for 9 weeks, $49.50 additional charge.
* Customize! Salad-lover's option. One extra pound of salad greens every week, $45 additional charge.
My total is $_________
* Check enclosed (payable to Kookoolan Farms)
* Pay by Visa, Mastercard, or Discover:
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I will pick up my vegetables:
* At the farm
* At the Intel RA1 Café
* At the Intel JF2 Cafe
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Please send me additional information on (circle all that apply):
* a buying club in my neighborhood
* milk, * eggs, * chicken, * beef, * lamb,* venison,
* turkey, * cheese making and other classes,
* mead and organic wines, * farmer’s market
Please detach and mail to: Kookoolan Farms, 15713 Highway 47,
