2012 CSA Sign Up

JenEhr CSA 2012 enrollment form

Who You Are

Everyday, in a hundred different ways, from subtle to loud, we let the world know who we are; the logo on our Tshirt, the kind of shoes we wear, even the angle of the hat atop our head. When we want to say something very loudly, we add words and pictures, as lapel buttons and bumper stickers on our vehicles.

What you eat and how you eat is a silent but very active message that you send to yourself and your closest loved ones. Think about your most recent visit to the grocery store and what you put in your cart? When those items rolled across the cashier’s conveyor belt, what message did they reveal about yourself?

CSA is a message

Becoming a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) member says that you care deeply about what you eat. It says you are willing to make a commitment to not only eat better, but to spend more time with your food, from washing and peeling to cooking and preserving. CSA is a quiet message you send to your body about less processed foods and more whole natural foods; a message you send to your children that good tasting and healthy food is grown in the ground by real farmers; and a vote with your dollars that you believe local and organic are important to your community and economy.

Why Join a CSA?

Buy Local

Your support helps small local farms stay afloat.
Connects you with the food you eat, the farmers who raise it and the land.
Easy pick up options and locations.

Eat Well

  • Buy the freshest food for your family.
  • Explore new foods and learn to cook with them.

Be Healthy

  • Eat more fresh vegetables and fruit.
  • Share healthy eating habits with your kids, exposing them earlyto a variety of regional foods.

Protect the Environment

  • Support farmers who take care of their land by growing food in ways that take care of the soil.
  • Cut down on the number of miles your food travels from the farm to your plate.

Why CSA Matters

There are a number of ways you can get your daily food needs. Grocery stores, coops, farmers markets, delis, restaurants and the list continues.  But CSA is different.  CSA is about making a political and economic statement all while eating really well.  It’s about voting with your food dollars, that you want to eat food that is produced locally and organically by farmers you know and trust.  It’s about adding a real face and real lives to your daily meals.  It’s about keeping your food dollars in your own community, county and state.  It’s about money that multiplies through local stores, banks and schools instead of fleeing the state to reside far off places.

When you become a CSA member, you are making a commitment to feeding yourself and your family better.  You are making a commitment paying a fair price for the labor of the farmers who feed you.  You are chosing clean water, less toxic soil along with healthier lives for those who grow your food and everyone who lives downstream.  Joining JenEhr’s organic CSA is about making a choice to live better, healthier and more sustainably.  Congratulations..

Why Choose JenEhr Family Farm

There are some great CSA farmers serving the Madison and Milwaukee areas. And while each offers a box of vegetables, there are differences that make for a better fit between farm and you.
1. Grow everything you get – Farmers Paul and Kay made a decision early on that the JenEhr CSA is about what our local farm can produce. It’s about a true relationship between the farm and you, the CSA member. We don’t buy in fruit or nuts or other items we don’t or can’t grow in this area, on this piece of land. If one particular fruit or vegetable fails (and it will, just like there are years when the tomatoes don’t pollinate or the winter squash floods away), then you’ll hear about the bounty and shortfalls in the newsletter. We
believe that CSA is about a partnership between you and the farmers, not simply a grocery store in a box.
2. Staffed Pick Up Locations – Pick up location is one of the first criteria in deciding which CSA farm to join. If a pick up location is inconvenient you’ll have a tougher time getting your scheduled share. But instead of more pick up locations, we’ve limited our locations so that there is always a farmer or farm staff person on site when you pick up your share. We know you have questions about what’s in the share, how to make something or why something is missing.  We know you want to actually talk to someone who is
working on the farm, who understands the big farm picture as well as the daily work and weather. We think that being a CSA member is about connecting to the farm in ways that go beyond simply the box of produce. We want to help you connect with the farm in a more personal way.
3. Strawberry U-Pick – We at JenEhr love growing strawberries. With more than four acres of organic berries, you’ll not only have a nice supply during the season, but your share includes coming out to the farm to pick additional strawberries as a part of your share (no additional charge).
4. More Information – A CSA membership can be a leap of faith, but we’re there to hold your hand with lots of information. First, our pickups are staffed, so someone who knows about the farm, the items in your share and food is available to answer your questions and help you get your food. Next is an outstanding four page newsletter emailed to you before you pick up your CSA share. Even if you pick up your share every other week (half share) you still get a weekly newsletter, loaded with recipes, preserving techniques and what’s happening on the farm. Plus video/slide show is uploaded to the JenEhr website each week, giving you a picture for
identifying each item in your share that week. It’s about making CSA easy.
5. Lots of payment Options – We know that paying a lump sum for your CSA share can be daunting or a budget constraint. So JenEhr offers several payment options, from monthly payments, to credit card payments, three-pay option and of course one time check, credit card, electronic withdraws. Many ways to make payment easy, convenient and fit your budget.

Health Insurance Rebate

Finally, health insurance companies get the link between eating organic food and good health – So many are offering a healthy eating CAS rebate. MACSAC offers an up-to-date list of insurance companies. It’s very probable that yours is offering $50 to $200 when you join JenEhr CSA

Unlike many area CSA’s, JenEhr does not offer neighborhood pick up locations.  We believe strongly that you as a CSA member wants to visit the farm, talk with someone directly related to the farm intimately.  So JenEhr pick up locations are based around where our knowledgeable staff can answer your questions, provide cooking direction and converse about the weather, the season and the items in your CSA share.  Pick up becomes an opportunity to become more intimately involved with your CSA farm.

Lots of Pick Up Locations

Unlike many area CSA’s, JenEhr does not offer neighborhood pick up locations.  We believe strongly that you as a CSA member wants to visit the farm, talk with someone directly related to the farm intimately.  So JenEhr pick up locations are based around where our knowledgeable staff can answer your questions, provide cooking direction and converse about the weather, the season and the items in your CSA share.  Pick up becomes an opportunity to become more intimately involved with your CSA farm.

Madison Area Pick Ups include:

JenEhr Family Farm Directions
6837 Elder Lane, Sun Prairie
Tuesdays or Thursdays, 3PM to 7PM

Westside Community Market
Corner Segoe and University in the Hill Farms neighborhood
Saturdays, 7AM to 10:30AM

Ground Zero Coffee Shop
744 Williamson Street
Tuesdays, 5PM to 7PM

Westside Community Market
Corner Segoe and University in the Hill Farms neighborhood
Saturdays, 7AM to 10:30AM

Crema Cafe
4124 Monona Drive
Sundays, 1PM to 3PM

Milwaukee Area Pick Ups include:

Good Harvest Market Directions
Hwy T and Silvernail Road in Pewaukee
Thursdays, 3PM to 7PM

West Allis Farmers Market Directions
National and 64th in West Allis
Thursdays or Saturdays, noon to 5PM

What to Expect Each Pick Up

Click here for a listing of produce to expect with each season.

  • 5/9 bushel box (6-20lbs) of fresh picked organic fruits and vegetables grown by your local Sun Prairie farm family.
  • Produce picked when it’s freshest, tastiest and most nutritious.
  • No hassles with parking, long cashier lines, carts to maneuver, kids to corral. Pull up and pick up your share of fruits and vegetables.
  • Great newsletter each week with recipes for produce in the box, storage tips and fun banter about the farm – emailed Wednesday before pick up.
  • U-Pick strawberries and tomatoes are part of your paid half or full share.
  • Certified organic produce grown by your neighborhood Sun Prairie farm.
  • Buying direct allows you to directly support your local community and be involved in improving your local environment – helping to keep southern Wisconsin green.

The Share Options

Early Season Greens
May 2 – June 12
The earliest salad and sauté greens possible from the hoophouse. Boxes include salad mix, arugula head lettuce, baby bok choi, rainbow chard, spinach, radishes, salad turnips, herbs asparagus, rhubarb, the first of the strawberries and more. This new 6-week season gives you all the early hoophouse and field produce.
Cost: $290

Regular Season Share
June 15 – November 13
Each week’s 5/9-bushel box contains the bounty of the garden from that week.  Last year, it took at least two grocery/tote bags to carry the items in your share home.  The ½ share is an every-other-week pick up.
Cost: $640

½ share  (Regular Share just every other week)                                    $360

Market Share CSA
June – October
Five $80 punch cards, labeled by month, which can only be used within that month (not the day before, or the day after, sorry no exceptions). You use the punch cards at any of our farmers market stands (Madison Capitol Square, Madison’s Westside Market and the West Allis Market) when you want.
Cost: $400

Fall Storage Share
November 20 Pick Up
Beets, turnips, carrots, rutabagas, winter squash, fresh greens and more make up this box of vegetables that will help feed your family through the holidays and cold of winter. Cost: $120

Pastured Poultry
May – November
Don’t forget the meat.  Four to six pound roasting chickens, raised without anti-biotics, on JenEhr organic pasture and with a neighbor’s corn and soybean feed.  Chickens are processed at an organic USDA inspected facility and fresh frozen for monthly pick up.  You must be a vegetable share member to purchase the chicken shares.
2 chickens per month – $35

Sign Up Today!

Ready to sign up? Click here JenEhr CSA 2011 enrollment form to download our printable sign up form (pdf)