Windy Meadow Farms CSA

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Windy Meadow Farms is the best deal for produce in Rochester
By: Debra Ross (Apr 24, 2008)
We started getting a weekly delivery of produce from Windy Meadow Farms last year; it's from June through November. You have the option of picking up your 10-16 lbs of weekly fruits and vegetables from a close local distribution point, or, for $5 more per week, having it delivered to your door each Saturday. I opted for the pickup, because it's more fun to run into others who are as pleased each week as I was. You can, if you like, head over to the Windy Meadow web site before Thursday each week and select which items you want and don't want, and they will tailor your delivery to your needs. But I only chose to do that during eggplant season -- otherwise, each week it was a surprise, like Christmas, to see what I'd be cooking and preserving each week. I devised a lot of new recipes, and my kids got introduced to some new vegetables that we might not have purchased on our own from the grocery store. It was all much fresher, and at a much lower price, than you'd get from the grocery store. I was so pleased that I even wrote about Windy Meadow Farms in my blog. Here is what I wrote on August 17:

"Today, My $10 bought me a LARGE head of romaine lettuce, EIGHT beefsteak tomatoes (six ripe and two green, to ripen), eleven Roma tomatoes for sauce, a bag of 30 cherry tomatoes, six ears of corn, about 2.5 pounds of potatoes, a big eggplant, a summer squash, three cucumbers, four green peppers, a red pepper, and three sweet peppers. Better than a partridge in a pear tree!"

--Debra Ross, Publisher, KidsOutAndAbout.com

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Walter Whitney ( Sep 1, 2012 )

Like Debby, we've personally found the program at Windy Meadow Farms to be of good quality, abundance and value. We did research the CSA program and understood going into it, that there would be weeks where we would receive plenty of what grows well in Western NY. Namely, squash, cabbages, potatoes, etc. My family's eating habits have taken a turn for the better this year and we feel better knowing that the folks who are growing it are directly receiving the profits of their labor. Brenda and Tom, have ALWAYS responded to any questions or e-mails I have sent and are often found at the barn/receiving area. My children love going to pick up the produce, visiting with the chickens, cows and family dog. We're only half-way through our summer share for 2012 in what has been called the worst drought in 60 years. If this is as bad as it gets, we can't wait until next year! Thank you Brenda and Tom for a great experience.

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Bianca Guevara ( Mar 28, 2010 )

It seems totally fake. I joined this CSA and like the others did not receive any of the above mentioned items, just potatoes and onions and I joined it based on this false review. What a jip and it almost made me lose faith in the CSA movement as a whole due to this being my first one, but I found others that were way better.

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Kevin ( Oct 11, 2008 )

I've read the previous reviews and when I signed up for Windy Meadows this year I was anxiously awaiting the bounty of vegetables that were mentioned. I've never seen anywhere near what these reviewers describe. Mostly we get a lot of lettuce/spinach of some sort each week, and potatoes. We got 6 ears of corn most of the season, but only got 6 regular tomatoes (that went rotten fast) and 6 roma tomatoes all season. We got lots of cilantro, but no other herbs. A few eggplant, a few sweet peppers, lots of hot peppers. No fruit at all. a few of weeks of green beans. Not anywhere near the list of veggies and fruits they had described on their website as available. I am very disappointed overall and will not re-enroll for 2009.