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Farm Happenings at Cooper's CSA Farm
Week 11 Aug 21-26 Cooper's CSA Farm CHICKEN Share
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It's chicken time again. We have lots of 1/2's and 1/4's available this month so we'll have lots for everyone.
Hot weather isn't great for chickens, we noticed the birds were a little lighter this time. Our chicken huts on pasture are designed to keep the birds as cool as possible, open air1 read more »
Week 11 Aug 21-26 Cooper's CSA Farm BEEF Share
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Lots of cuts and items to choose from this month, but we are a little short on ground and stew beef. That will be rectified next month.
A big change with our beef herd, 2 weeks ago we purchased 17 cows with young calves at their side so we now have full birth to finish on our farm. Before1 read more »
Week 11 Aug 21-26 Cooper's CSA Farm Pork Share
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Its pork share week. lots of good choices for you.
When its hot like this the pigs spend a lot time heading for shade like in the pic. They also wallow in a water/ mud hole that we provide. Pigs don't sweat so they pant, stay in the shade, or roll around in a wet hole.
It's pretty hot. If1 read more »
Week 11 Aug 21-26 Cooper's CSA Farm Happenings -Let The field tomatoes begin!!
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Our first field tomatoes are ready! Heirloom cherry tomatoes called Bumble Bee are available. We also have jalapeno peppers new this week and salanova lettuce is back. We just started into a new patch of yellow beans and they look great and of course we have melons and much more.1 read more »
Week 10 Aug 14-19 Cooper's CSA Farm Happenings - MELONS!!!!
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Holy smokes its week 10!! We're 1/2 way through our CSA season.
Heading toward mid August and we've had lots of heat means we have lots of melons!!! Cantaloupe and French Charentais melon are available. Strawberries, green and yellow beans, tomatillos, and some good size red bunchin1 read more »
week 9 Aug 7-12 The Farm Box - Strawberries are back!!
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Savoy cabbage, and tomatillos are new items this week. Sweet corn, green beans and green onions are looking good. Strawberries are back too! With this heat we will start picking melons later in the week and maybe even watermelon.
Abbi is excited for the return of strawberry1 read more »
Week 8 July 31- Aug 5 Farm Happenings - The Farm Box - Sweet Corn!!!
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Sweet corn, beans, and green onions, sweet banana peppers. and some eggplant are on the list of items this week.
Sweet corn is an anchor crop for us. Its the first veggie crop that we ever grew, Steve was 11 way back in the early 80's when he started growing sweet corn with his brother1 read more »
Week 7 July 24-29 Farm Happenings - Chicken Share
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Its chicken week!!
The chickens have been doing awesome this year. Knock on wood, but no issues at all. They came through the heat extremely well, and you'll see from the weights we have some good sized birds.
The picture is our outdoor pasture huts. We move these everyday to give the bird1 read more »
Week 7 July 24-29 Farm Happenings - PORK SHARE
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It's Pork share time!
In the pic is what we call "bacon bits" or newborn piglets. that's from a litter born a few weeks ago. The mom of these guys is 1/2 large black breed and 1/2 unknown...????...We got her from another farm and she is an awesome mom. She was bred to our boar "Chuck" who1 read more »
About the farm
The GTA's best option for homegrown veggies and fruit, pasture raised / grass fed beef, pork and chicken. Cooper's CSA Farm is a family operation that brings the best farming practises along with top notch customer service to provide local customers with top quality - right from our farm - produce and meats. Home delivery across most of the GTA plus access to the farm and farm store.
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