Full Plate Farm Collective

The Full Plate Farm Collective is a unique collective model CSA. Together we are committed to building up community, farming with integrity, and growing high quality food with fair prices and living wages for all involved. Your membership helps us make this vision a reality. Stick and Stone Farm & Remembrance Farm, two of the Ithaca area’s largest organic farms. Each farm maintains their own independent business, wholesale, unique specialty crops and more, coming together to create shares and community as the Full Plate Farm Collective! Each farm contributes about half of our weekly CSA shares, together they Nathaniel and Emily Thompson’s Remembrance Farmis a 100-acre Organic, Biodynamic vegetable farm located in Trumansburg, NY, in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes . The farm is certified organic and uses Biodynamic practices. They specialize in baby salad greens. Theirorganic, biodynamic dairyopened in 2020. Beginning in 2021 they also offer fresh, organic yogurt, cheese and pasteurized milk shares for pickup alongside your CSA! And there’s a raw milk CSA too! Beyond the CSA, you can find their dairy products and vegetables at Green Star, T-burg Main Street Market, the T-burg Shur Save, and served at many restaurants in the Ithaca area and regionally. Remembrance Farm — Biodynamic Produce To Nourish The Community for wholesale or donation requests, contact our farmers directly:remembrancefarm@gmail.com Stick and Stone Farmis owned and operated by Chaw Chang & Lucy Garrison-Clauson’ is just 4.5 miles from downtown Ithaca towards Jacksonville. They grow a wide range of vegetables, including many specialty varieties of asian vegetables that pop up in the share. Lucy and Chaw grow a beautiful U-Pick garden that is always open to CSA members. It includes perennials, herbs, hot peppers, tomatoes, and much more. Stick and Stone grows nearly 50 acres of certified organic food. They also host the Wednesday Pack-your-own Pickup. Their veggies can also be found at their booth at the Ithaca Farmers Market, Green Star, T-burg Main St Market, local restaurants and on the Seneca & Cayuga Wine Trail Stick And Stone Farm: Growing Unique Organic Veggie Varieties for wholesale or donation requests, contact our farmers directly:stickandstonefarm@gmail.com The collective model allows us to work with and support many more great fellow-producers in the Ithaca area! We commit to buying crops early in the year, much like our members do for us. Their contributions enrich share variety and support crop security, backing each other up when yields are down. About 10% of our share is made up of food from more local growers and producers… …because we are stronger together! Full Plate is a full embrace of the principles of Community Supported Agriculture, supported both by members and by every farm who contributes. By feeding a shared member community, each of our farms can focus on a specific set of crops, rather than produce all the crops themselves. And, sometimes, to back each other up when mother nature interferes. Our farms also share resources like equipment, storage space, and the risks that come with a changing climate and invasive pests. Our wonderful coordinator, Molly, oversees distribution logistics, membership communication and our regular farmers' meetings, allowing the farms to focus on what they do best—growing good food for you! As a part of this you benefit from the variety and abundance the farms grow together, broader connections to our local foodshed, and from having a CSA Coordinator to support a great CSA experience. When CSA Partnership Scales, Molly Flerlage of the Full Plate Farm Collective, Collaborative Farming Podcast, 2022 CSA Bridges Gaps Between Farms and Community,Tompkins Weekly, 2019 What’s on Your Plate? Full Plate Farm CSA Feeds & Serves Community,Get Your Green Back Tompkins, 2019 Full Plate Farm Collective, Local First Ithaca, 2019 Myth Busting: You Can Eat Local in the Winter,Edible Finger L