HighCross Farm

HighCross Farm was our choice for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription this summer. By subscribing to a CSA, we paid up front for 20 weekly shipments of organic produce. The food goes straight from the ground to my table with no middlemen or processing or storage. And our money goes straight to the family growing my food and I get the freshest produce of anyone I know. It’s totally a win-​win situation.
The farm is just an hour North from Milwaukee near Kettle Moraine State Park. Every Thursday they harvest and ship whichever crops are ripe and ready. These are sent to 23 designated pick-​up locations (half in Milwaukee, half rural sites). For all the details of the 2011 share check here: www​.high​cross​farm​.com/​c​s​a​-​2​0​1​1​.html
After reading all this you might think we’re some sort of foodie fanatics. There has to be some sort of catch, right? Clearly we must be paying an arm and a leg by wastefully supporting some kind of hippie farmer charity cult. WRONG. We went in with a neighboring family to split a full share of weekly groceries. Our out-​of-​pocket cost is less than $ 16 per week. Way cheaper than buying this stuff at Pick-​n-​Save. But it’s organic. Oh, and it’s locally sourced.
It turns out that another subscriber has even started a cooking web diary, so we should see some of the CSA produce appearing in recipes at
as the summer wears on.
I waited for our first delivery to write this review, but as expected the contents of our bushel box looked and tasted amazing. Already we are staring at baby bok choy, a tomato plant, scallions, Swiss chard, fresh strawberries, mizuna, two (!) kinds of kale, lettuce, oregano, arugula, sage and more.
I urge you to sign up for this CSA or one like it. You’ll be doing good works with little effort by voting with your pocketbook. And also Thursdays will suddenly become the best day of the week!