Keener Farm

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Description

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. In this relationship between consumer and farm, the consumer purchases a share of the current years livestock, becoming a shareholder of the herd. As a shareholder, the consumer secures a share of the farms annual meat production. As a shareholder, you are not buying packaged meat. You are buying a percentage of the herd.

In return Keene'rs Walnut Grove Farm will raise grass fed beef and pastured poultry. A neighboring farm will be raising hormone-free pork. Keener's Farm will have the meat processed and deliver your share of meat once a month. At Walnut Grove Farm, we guarantee to deliver responsibly and locally raised meat. We know you willl taste the difference.

Beef, pork and whole chickens will be available as part of the CSA share. For the first month, only beef and pork will be provided in the share. In subsequent months, we will be working to provide free range chickens as an option in the CSA program. 20 lb and 15 lb shares will receive chicken. 8 lb shares will only receive beef and pork.

20 lb shares cost $125 per month, 15 lb shares cost $100 per month and 8 lb shares cost $65 per month. As a shareholder in the farm, fees are due every three months. To sign up for a 20 lb share starting in April, the three-month fee would be $375.

In 1830, our farm was purchased by my great-great grandfather, John Keener, when the State of Ohio was only 27 years old. The 160-acre farm has 50 acres of old-growth forest and 100 acres of tillable farmland, that we are constantly converting into pasture for cattle. The farm house, the bank barn, tobacco shed, and ice house were all built before 1850 by my ancestors.

With the state of today's meat industry, I feel there is a cry from the educated consumer for local, responsibly raised meats. This CSA will provide grass fed beef, free range chicken, and sausage and bacon made from pigs farrowed in a wood lot. There is peace of mind knowing you're eating meat from a healthy hormone-free animal.

CSA Details:
Season:  Year round
Type: Multiple farm
Since: 2011
No of Shares: 45
Full Share: 20lb share is $125 a month
1/2 Share:
Work Req? No

Pick Up/Drop Off Points:

Keener Farm  (Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat)
Members who are unable to pick up their shares at our regular drop-off locations will be able to arrange pick-up at the farm.
Contact: Matthew Keener
Phone: 937-694-3424
Address: 555 N. Lutheran Ch. Rd.Dayton, OH 45417

Near University of Dayton  (Wed)
We will hand out shares to members the first Wednesday of every month between 4:00 and 6:00 pm.
Contact: Matthew Keener
Phone: 937-694-3424
Address: 20 Sawmill Rd.,Dayton, 45419

Yellow Springs Farmer's Market  (Sat)
Members pick up their shares on Saturdays between 9 and noon. Summer pickup will be in the Corner Cone parking lot.
Contact: Matthew Keener
Phone: 937-694-3424
Address: 101 South Walnut Street, Yellow Springs, OH 45387

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