Side Dish CSAs
We are happy to collaborate with local food producers to offer our members access to fruit, yogurt, bread, meat, mushrooms, and more local abundance, all in one place.
visit our partners’ websites to get more great, local food alongside your veggie share!
Produce
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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 first distribution of the month Jan-March, 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
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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
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a sampling of fruity goodness from our region curated into summer sampler sized shares with a taste of all that NYS orchards have to offer; and hearty winter boxes perfect for baking and applesauce making.
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓
PICKUP OPTIONS: All of them! Free Choice Pickups, Group Sites, Home Delivery
Fruit Bowl is a Side Dish run by Full Plate farmers! Questions? Contact: csa@fullplatefarms.com
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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
Meat, Dairy & Eggs
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Backbone Farm offers 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.
SEASONS: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
PICK UP OPTIONS: Free choice pickups or at Backbone Farm
Questions? katherine@backbonefarm.org
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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 Farm Collective free choice pick ups.
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓
PICKUP OPTIONS: Stick and Stone
Questions? openspacescider@gmail.com
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Cream on top yogurt. Raw* and low-temp pasteurized, creamline milk. A wide variety of specialty cheeses— 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 (Sweet Land Farm & EcoVillage pickup available during Summer CSA)
RF Dairy is a Side Dish run by Full Plate farmers!
LEARN MORE and JOIN RIGHT HERE ON OUR WEBSITE!
Questions? remembrancefarmdairy@gmail.com
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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 dairy herd. We make a variety of cheeses including Gouda, Feta, Swiss, Asiago, Caerphilly, and Stilton.
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter x
PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups (summer) | Farm Pickups (winter)
SIGN UP COMING SOON!
Questions? Contact: sfcreamery@gmail.com
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Van Noble is taking a break from CSA right now, but they hope to return for future seasons!
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✗
PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups
Questions? theporkshop@vannoblefarm.com
More!
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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. New this season, a ‘booch only share! 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
LEARN MORE AND JOIN THE FERMENT SHARE
Questions? Contact: foodandferments@gmail.com
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Brighten your winter with vibrant, locally grown tulips.
A 5-Week Winter Tulip Share will bring joy into your home and give you something to look forward to during the long wait for spring. Tulips are sustainably grown on our flower farm in Trumansburg.
Sign up for the 5-Week Winter Tulip Share and enjoy the beauty of fresh, local flowers this winter!
SEASONS: summer ✗ | winter ✓
PICKUP OPTIONS: Stick & Stone and Remembrance Farm
Questions? brooke@jennycreekflowers.com
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At Woodpepper, located right in Press Bay Court, we focus on highly hydrated loaves, fermented slowly with natural leavening, and made from organic ingredients. Check out our whole roster of breads here. We will rotate through the roster in order to maintain quality and sanity.
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓
PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups (summer) | Farms & Press Bay (winter)
Questions? Contact: info@woodpepperbread.com; or 607-317-7151
*Summer-Fall CSA season only
**Winter CSA season only
Side Dish CSAs offer options to customize your CSA experience, simplify your shopping, and discover your new favorite local treats.
Plus, they’re a great opportunity to support more local producers and build deeper connections in our food community!
