2024 Loyalty Farm Membership INFO & F.A.Q.

The Field To Fork Farm Membership is a opportunity to invest in your local food system and feed your family and friends great healthy produce and cook with tasty and beautiful organic fruits, vegetables and meat. Memberships are preserving and securing a local food system in our community making Mesa County a more sustainable place to live..

You do not need to be a farm member to enjoy our weekly harvested fresh organically raised products or any of our special offerings.

Not a member? Not a problem, come visit us!

3526 Front Street Palisade Co 81526

2024 Farm Card Membership

Annual Farm Card Membership: $100.00

*10% off all farm store purchases during the 2023 year (Feb-Dec)

*10% off all Farm Events

*10% off Pizza Club Purchases

*10% off Dinner Club Events

*10% of Spring Garden Plant Sale Purchases and Early Access to The Garden Center Plant Sale May 17th

*Member Prices on bulk items/Bumper Crops

*Invitation to Farm Tour and annual Pizza Party Potluck BYOB June 16th

You will be given a membership card to use when shopping.

Farm Cards are not intended to be shared with friends or other households one card per household. Please encourage your friends to purchase their own.

You must Pickup your Farm Card Physically at the Farm during our regular Farm Store Hours.

Purchase your farm card at the farm to avoid the internet service fees.

**The 100.00 purchase price goes directly to supporting the farm, farmers, supplies and costs of running and operating the farm. It is not a credit to spend at the farm. In return of your membership support you receive a 10% discount at check out through the current growing season.

What to Expect? What do we grow? How do we grow?

We raise seasonal organic produce of all types we have a diverse fruit orchard, 8 greenhouses, 2.5 acre market garden, pastured poultry and hog production. We support other local growers who have unique products we don’t raise or in the event of a crop loss due to harsh weather or un-foreseen human error we will source products as needed.

Here are the details: We raise Cherries, Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Apples, Pears, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Radish, Carrots, Garlic, Onions, Beets, Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, Sweet Corn, Swiss Chard, Kale, Cabbage, Broccoli, Herbs, free range pastured egg layer hens, pastured poultry meat birds pasture raised hogs and honey bees. This is very rewarding work for us. Members support help support labor costs, seed costs, greenhouse costs and general operation of this farm.

Seasonally we source hard to find seasonal specialty pantry staples available at our farm stand. We grow many different gourmet crops and spring, summer, fall and winter are all wonderful. Paired with our pantry items and naturally raised proteins you will be so satisfied every week. Our weekly harvests are very special and our offering is like no other.

We are Certified Organic and our farm practice is beyond organic. We practice a style of agriculture that has been long forgotten. We use the French Intensive Biodynamic farm practices. 90% of all our inputs and amendments are created on farm and we implement the biodynamic systems in all aspects of our farm from seeding to harvest. We pay close attention to the biodynamic calendar and apply all the biodynamic preparations annually.

Field To Fork strives to be a closed loop farming system creating our own fertility. Our garden beds are permanent no/low till beds 100’ long by 30” wide we use intensive plant spacing and companion planting through out our farm.

We are dedicated to growing the best produce for our community as well as nurturing nature and caring for our pollinators, birds, insects, reptiles and amphibians. 20% of our farm land is dedicated to undisturbed wildlife habitat and cover crops. Perennial flowering hedgerows, fruit trees and diverse flowering cover crops. The annual vegetables are raised in a No-Till market garden and greenhouse/hoop house protection. We raise all crops in the preferred time for optimal nutrition and flavor.

Our systems are tried and true. We use old world techniques with modern small scale farming technology this allows us to grow a large variety of crops earlier and later then any other farm in Mesa County. We mange over 20,000 square feet of greenhouses and a 200+ permanent no/low till garden bed system. We have a small fruit orchard of Cherries, Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Apples and Pears. When we have a good fruit year we all enjoy the diverse bounty. We raise egg layer hens annually, hogs, Bees & Broiler Meat Chickens.

We harvest and grow nutrient dense produce during all four seasons. Our focus is simple and based on healthy soil. We spend most of our time balancing and adding proper nutrition to our soil before we plant our crops if the soil is balanced and healthy it will simply grow healthy plants. We never use any synthetic petrol based fertilizers, herbicides or fungicides every plant control system at Field To Fork are plant, animal or mineral based controls derived from nature.

We have seasonal shifts between Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer sometimes we need to close to plant and prepare for the seasons ahead. We close for all major holidays. These announcements are made through emails as well as on our social media pages.

Many seasons have unplanned surprises and we do have issues with weather most recently smoke pollution from wildfires. We can not hurt the health of our staff or our selves by working in unhealthy conditions caused by natural causes out of our control. We do sometimes close due to severe climate conditions.

Disclaimer:

**Being a member allows you to develop a relationship with the farmers that grow your food and with the soil, air and water with which it’s grown. You are also developing a more intimate relationship with the peculiarities of the farm’s unique growing conditions — which are affected by altitude, weather, climate, etc. Together we are taking a risk at farming and any risks take responsibility for any losses. Farm Card Membership is renewed annually.

2021-22 CSA farm Card Memberships have 12 months from last purchase to use any remainder farm credits. If credits are not used in the 12 month time frame farm credits will expire.