Every Full Plate needs a Side Dish

BEEF

Organically raised 100% grass-fed and pasture-finished beef. We practice management intensive rotational grazing for optimal animal, pasture and soil health. Our herd lives from birth to butcher in our care on 105 acres of perennial pasture and silvopasture. A bulk order is the most economical way to enjoy high-quality meat. We offer custom-cut half and quarter cows, and smaller bundles of farmer-selected cuts. Visit backbonefarm.org

SEASONS: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

PICK UP OPTIONS: Free choice pickups in July and October. On farm pick ups in January and April.

Questions? katherine@backbonefarm.org

SHIITAKES

Mike and Jennifer Edmondson of Willseyville provide Full Plate members with great, organically grown shiitake mushrooms. This year the share runs twelve weeks and includes 12 ounces (3/4 lb) of fresh log-grown shiitake mushrooms weekly. Full and Half size shares available for all your mushroom needs!

Dates TBA. The Mushroom season typically runs late June into early fall.

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✗

PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups | Home Delivery

Questions? Contact: doubleeshiitake@gmail.com

FRUIT

We offer a sampling of fruit from our region curated into summer sampler sized shares, and hearty winter baking boxes. All from growers across the FLX working to grow with care in a challenging climate.

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓

PICKUP OPTIONS: All! Free Choice Pickups, Group Sites, Home Delivery

Questions? Contact: csa@fullplatefarms.com

Fruit Bowl is a Side Dish run by Full Plate farmers! Join right here on our website!

FERMENTS

Trust your gut to us!

Kombucha, kraut, pickles, and kimchi! Just a few of the products you will enjoy in the monthly Ferment Share. Add-on a Ferment Share and enjoy live-cultured, locally sourced products June thru October. Choose 4 or 6 items per month.

All products are handcrafted locally by Carly and Dave Dougherty and their team at Food & Ferments in Cortland, NY.

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✗

PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups

Questions? Contact: foodandferments@gmail.com

HERBS

High-Ground Gardens is a small scale, no-till culinary herb farm located in Ovid, N.Y. This share will supply organically grown common, exotic, and aromatic herbs for the adventurous home chef. Offering herbs such as thyme, ginger, basil, shiso, tarragon, and so much more! Compliment the bounty of the Finger Lakes, beyond salt and pepper!

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✗

PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups

Questions? highgroundgardensovid@gmail.com

EGGS

Open Spaces’ flock of Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rock, Ameraucana, Buff Orpington and Araucana Bantams produces a range of gorgeous brown and green eggs (pastured, organic feed). Year Round Egg Shares! Sign up for each season or schedule your own dates. Weekly at Full Plate free choice pick ups.

Details on Open Spaces website

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓

PICKUP OPTIONS: Stick and Stone, Press Bay

Questions? Contact: openspacescider@gmail.com

CHEESE, YOGURT, MILK

Cream on top yogurt. Raw* and low-temp pasteurized, creamline milk. A wide variety of specialty cheeses—raw and pasteurized, soft and hard, fresh and aged, mild and funky.

All made with 100% organic, grass-fed milk from our on-farm herd.

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓

PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups, Remembrance Farm, Mimi’s Attic

Questions? remembrancefarmdairy@gmail.com

RF Dairy is a Side Dish run by Full Plate farmers! Join right here on our website!

CHEESE

We are a creamery in Brooktondale, NY that specializes in making raw cow milk cheeses. We make cheese in small batches one day a week using milk from our neighbor's Jersey herd.

We make a variety of cheeses including Gouda, Feta, Swiss, Asiago, Caerphilly, and Stilton. More info.

SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter x

PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups (summer) | Farm Pickups (winter)

Questions? Contact: sfcreamery@gmail.com

DRY BEANS

Receive a winter's worth of beautiful and delicious dry beans - all grown right here in the Finger Lakes. The share includes a diversity of bean varieties, from familiar pantry staples to unique heirlooms. Sign up to ensure you've got the perfect bean for every winter meal!

3 monthly deliveries the last distribution of the month, a total of 16lbs of beans over the course of the season!

SEASONS: summer ✗ | winter ✓

PICKUP OPTIONS: Farm Pickups ✓ | Group Site Pickup ✗ | Home Delivery ✓

Questions? kristen@buttermilkbean.com

TULIPS

Brighten your winter with four weeks of beautiful, locally grown tulips. Our Early Tulip Share is the perfect way to bring a touch of spring into your home during the darkest days of the year. Tulips are grown sustainably on our flower farm in Trumansburg. We are NYS Grown & Certified.

Don’t let the winter blues get you down. Sign up for our Early Tulip Share today and enjoy the beauty of fresh, local flowers this winter.

SEASONS: summer ✗ | winter ✓

PICKUP OPTIONS: Stick & Stone and Remembrance

Questions? brooke@jennycreekflowers.com

PORK

taking a break for Summer 2024

Follow @VanNobleFarm on Instagram to see what they’re up to in the coming year!

We still plan to see VanNoble at the farm for a Farm to Food Truck Fundraiser in 2024!

Questions? theporkshop@vannoblefarm.com

BREAD

Wide Awake bakery is no longer offering CrustFund shares at CSA farms. Find them at their store on Franklin St in Ithaca or at the Ithaca Farmers Market.

Questions? Contact: wideawakebakery@gmail.com