Every Full Plate needs a Side Dish
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!
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Backbone Farm
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
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Finger Lakes Fruit Bowl
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!
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Open Spaces
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
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Remembrance Farm Dairy
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!
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Snow Farm Creamery
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
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Woodpepper Bakery
BREAD
We will be a naturally leavened, organic bread shop producing loaves that have our own character due to the methods and intentions we bring to our bread making process. We will focus on making breads from high extraction and wholemeal type flours (mostly but not exclusively) that are leavened with a starter culture and hydrated fully to help aid in better digestion.
SEASONS: summer ✓ | winter ✓
PICKUP OPTIONS: Free Choice Pickups (summer) | Farms & Press Bay (winter)
Questions? Contact: 607-317-7151
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Double E Forest Farm
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
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Food & Ferments
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
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High Ground Gardens
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
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Van Noble Farm
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