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Savor Oregon's seasonal ambrosia and enrich your culinary experiences with our 2008 GSA - a unique weekly offering that features choice fruit and heirloom European vegetables from our farm, as well as artisan cheese, olive oil, and other epicurean delights. In addition to receiving farm-direct seasonal produce, you will help support small family farms further our collective agricultural heritage, by continuing to grow food for our community.


Sorry -- our 2008 GSA subscriptions are SOLD OUT.
If you would like to be on our waiting list, please send us an email.



What it includes

weekly selection of hand-harvested produce with a focus on fruit and exceptional varieties of vegetables > $25 value

invitations to two special farm events

private farm visits welcomed, to be scheduled in advance

wholesale pricing for additional bulk orders
(i.e. flat of berries or box of peaches)

optional accompaniments from select fellow farms/purveyors; see further details below

delivered to specific GSA drop site

vacation credits: choose between market stall credit or foodbank donation with tax deductible receipt. Maximum of two during the season; requires one week advance notice


Full season subscription: 20 weeks

Half season subscription: 10 weeks

 

Optional accompaniments from fellow farms
 

Our friends have put together some fantastic selections to accompany the produce we harvest for your GSA box. More information is available on our subscription form, but here's a little background of what's in store for you...

Fraga Farm Goat Cheese

fresh goat cheese full of vitality from Jan & Larry's majestic Alpine and Nubian herd. Fifty well-loved goats are milked to produce a wide assortment of goat cheese such as chevre with greek olive tapenade, farmhouse pepper blends, and goatzarella. fragafarm.com

Ancient Heritage Dairy - Sheep + Cow Cheese + Yogurt
fresh as well as aged cheese and yogurt crafted with a deep commitment to making authentic food with time-honored techniques.Paul and Kathy's East Friesian sheep and Ayshire cows produce a variety of cheeses such as Scio Heritage (pure sheep milk) and Adelle (sheep and cow milk, blended). ancientheritagedairy.com

Real Good Food
superb selections of extra virgin olive oil, fleur de sel, and vinegars imported directly from small producers in southern Europe. Jim's culinary zeal and firsthand knowledge of the producers have allowed him to bring the best (which is rarely exported) to Oregon -- for the gourmand in all of us. realgoodfood.com

NEW! Iliamna Fish Co.
fine wild sockeye salmon from the abundant waters of Bristol Bay. Open to current 2008 GSA members. More details available by clicking here...


la route du fromage + Sociedad Gastronómica
 

Can't decide on which accompaniments to add to your GSA subscription? Here are two new options for 2008:

la route du fromage
A full season of artisan cheese, reminiscent of la route in Pays Basque. Alternating weeks of cheese from our friends at Fraga Farm and Ancient Heritage Dairy. 20 weeks - 1 cheese selection per week.


Sociedad Gastrónomica
Indulge your culinary passions... Sociedad Gastronómica members get a full season of our GSA, la route du fromage, and a medley of epicurean items from Real Good Food (5 months, 1 item per month).

 

Pick up locations
 

Thursdays:
Grand Central Baking Co., 714 N. Fremont, Portland; 4pm-6pm grandcentralbakery.com

Saturdays:
Portland Farmers Market 1800 SW Broadway, Portland; South Park Blocks at PSU, (at the viridian farms booth). 9am - 1:30pm

 

Important dates
 

Full season subscription: 20 weeks, May 24 - October 4

Half season subscription: 10 weeks, May 24 - July 26

Half season subscription: 10 weeks, August 2 - October 4

Deadlines for payments
__Full season subscription: May 1
__Half season subscriptions: May 1, and July 1

Note: subscription reservations will only be held until payment deadlines.

 

 
   

 

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sample GSA box: summer

_elliott blueberries
_cascade delight raspberries
_harmony peaches
_marionberries
_Noir de Carmes melon
_baby chioggia and golden beets
_haricots verts
_roquefort yellow wax beans
_salad greens w/ edible flower medley
_sweet borettana onions
_summer squash blossoms
_farmhouse goat cheese - chipotle*
_scio heritage sheep milk cheese*
_necton flor de sal*

_radicchio treviso
_pimientos de padron
_arugula selvatica
_genovese basil
_gala apples
_glenora grapes
_bosc pears
_king richard leeks
_gobbo di nizza cardoon stalks
_blue hubbard winter squash
_spanish chestnuts
_heirloom tomatoes
_bouquet garni for autumn stews
_chef's blend chevre (garlic + herbs)*_
_odessa blue raw milk cheese*
_bettini extra virgin olive oil, umbria*

sample GSA box: autumn
Fraga Farm
Goat Cheese

 

 

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