• Our Baskets
• Payment Plans
• Super Thursday
• Home Delivery

We are offering 20 weekly baskets of local, seasonal, organic or ecologically grown produce starting mid June 2010. The cost for 20 weeks is $600, with a minimum deposit of $100 to secure your spot. This works out to an average cost of $30 per week with some seasonal variability. A bi-weekly (every 2 weeks) option is also available with a minimum deposit of $50. Paying in full helps to facilitate spring seeding payments to farmers (we will pay 20% to farmers up front ASAP). A payment plan option is also available (see below).

We are also offering limited winter produce baskets. Winter produce will be available starting in November for a minimum of 3 months. Baskets will cost $50 each. A minimum deposit of $50 is due to secure your spot and facilitate planning.

Please click on the following link to get an idea of what to expect in your basket.

To subscribe to summer or winter baskets click on the "Purchase Form 2010" link below, fill in the form with your choices, then click the Submit by Email" button to send it off to By The Bushel. A member will contact you within 48 hours to follow up about payment and answer any questions you may have.

**Purchase form 2010**

The pick up location & timing will be Mark Street United Church (Hunter and Mark), Thursday afternoons 2-6 pm.

We will also offer additional items once a month until January on Super Thursday (see below).

We now have home delivery available. Choose to have every basket delivered to your home every week or only the weeks that you are not able to pick it up yourself. Just $6.00 per delivery.

We gladly accept post dated cheques and also welcome self directed payment plans should you wish to speed up your payment schedule.

For weekly summer baskets: $100 due on June 1st, and with your first July basket, first August basket, first September basket, and first October basket.For home delivery add an additional $24.00.

For biweekly summer baskets: $50 due June 1st, and with your first July basket, first August basket, first September basket, and first October basket. For home delivery add an additional $12.00.

For monthly winter baskets: $50 due with your November basket and your December basket. For home delivery an additional $9.00.

Super Thursday is on the third Thursday of the month from June through January. The next Super Thursday will be in June 2010. Orders must be placed in advance. If you are not a member please become a member before placing an order. Please give us a call or email if you have any questions.

For an idea of our Super Thursday offerings take a look at our January order form (below).

Super Thursday Products January

Some details about what our producer members are offering:

Tall Tree Farm Maple Syrup is produced the old fashioned way with buckets and wood fire, produced with all stainless steal equipment and cleaned with Ecological cleaners, Sustainable Maple forest management. We bottle all of our syrup in glass bottles.

Tall Tree Farm Honey is produced in Havelock. We treat our bees with methods allowed in the Organic standards, though our honey is not certified organic, the honey is made from mostly wildflowers. Honey is bottled in glass jars.

O'Brienview Organic Beef. O'Brienview farm is part of a group of farmers in the Kawartha Lakes Region who are working on setting up an organic beef co-op. O'Brienview Farm is offering this beef for sale to co-op members as a pilot project for the beef co-op. All beef is certified organic. (NB: The all beef sausages are made with this same certified organic beef but the actual sausage making process is not certified.)

Stoddart Family Farm Duck Eggs are fresh and certified organic. Duck eggs are very similar to a chicken egg - a little larger, a richer flavour and the whites are stiffer resulting in fluffier cakes.

Wholearth Farmstudio's Heritage Shropshire Sheep spend their summer days grazing the open fields & meadows of Ontario's rolling Northumberland County. They are handled with care & kindness, raised naturally on lush green pastures of native grasses, alfalfa-timothy hay and a vitamin mineral mix, with no antibiotics, synthetics or growth hormones of any kind. Shropshire lamb is savoured by food connoisseurs who appreciate their exceptional flavour. Choosing Wholearth Heritage Shropshire lamb ensures a future for this superb breed, whose long history of excellence dates back to the 18th century. Our lamb is government inspected and aged for six days, which allows the meat to mature to perfection, and then vacuum-sealed for freshness.

Also from Wholearth Farmstudio, Heritage Tamworth Pork all natural, pasture-raised Tamworth Heritage pork is juicer, more succulent, tender, richer, more marbled and fuller tasting... nothing like intensively raised, commercial supermarket pork. Our pigs are celebrating their recent induction onto the Slow Food Ark of Taste List. (See our website for a link to see why everybody is talking about their great taste.) Chops are 2 per pack, vacuum-sealed and SUPER SIZED at 1.25" thick for the BEST in barbecuing! Roasts average 3.5 to 5 pounds. Shoulder and Blade/Shoulder and Butt Roasts are perfect for popular for Pulled Pork recipes. The Ground Tamworth is quite lean and super tasty. In 1 lb packages...make your own Tamburgers.

Beavermeadow Farm is a local certified organic farm producing field crops, pastured poultry and honey. Flavoured Honeys are made with certified organic flavours, and they will be offering creamed honey soon! Do you know there is no cream in creamed honey? It is just a fine crystallization of the honey itself with no additives at all.