Why CSA?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and is a way for consumers to support local farms by purchasing a share of products before the season starts to help fund early season costs. In return, the consumer often gets a discount on their purchase. Signing up for a CSA helps us fund and plan our season by giving us up-front capital to purchase chicks, pay employees, make improvements or repairs to existing infrastructure, and purchase necessary supplies. In return, you get a discount & guaranteed availability on your meat for the season.
Over the years, our CSAs have been integral to our farm’s ability to weather the slower season and be able to fund the expenses we incur during that time. This year, we need to replace a lot of our electric poultry nets as they’ve seen their fair share of use and abuse over the last 7 years. We also have payroll expenses, pork and lamb processing expenses, packaging for chickens, chicks and feed ingredients to buy, and more. This is our most expense-intensive time of year and also our slowest time of year sales-wise. CSAs help us bridge the gap and continue operating during this time. If you are planning to shop with us in 2024, please consider buying a CSA soon! Thank you so much for supporting our farm!
Scroll down to read about each of our CSA options & to sign up.
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2024 Whole Chicken CSA
The details:
Our tried-and-true pick-up-throughout-the-season Whole Chicken CSA is back for its 7th year! Designed for people without extra freezer space or who don’t want to buy a bunch of chicken at once, our Whole Chicken CSA allows you to get your chickens at a discount and when you want them. Purchase 50# or 100# of bulk chickens and pick them up at your leisure at the farm or at the Bozeman farmers markets on Saturdays or Tuesdays. Our Whole Chicken CSA and bulk preorders are essential to our meat chicken production! They allows us to purchase chicks and supplies, pay our employees, and get the first chickens processed — all costs we incur before we have a single chicken to sell. This is the only time during the year that we offer our Whole Chicken CSA.
Please note: in order to avoid absorbing thousands in credit card fees, we prefer you pay via check or venmo. If you would like to pay with a credit or debit card and check out on the website, you can do so and pay the credit card fee.
2024 Chicken csa options:
50# whole chicken CSA: approximately 12 whole chickens for $350 (save $25)
100# whole chicken CSA: approximately 25 whole chickens for $695 (save $55)
When are chickens available?
Chickens are available starting in July and you need to have all of your chickens picked up by the end of October.
How to get your chickens:
Pick up at the farmers markets in Bozeman between July and the end of October.
We can accommodate 4 chickens per person per market as we have limited cooler space. This means you need to come to at least 3 markets to pick up your 50# of chicken and at least 6 markets to pick up 100# of chicken,
Tuesday evenings at Lindley Park from July-September
Saturday mornings at the fairgrounds from July-end of October
Pick up at the farm in Livingston
Send us an email and we’ll have chickens ready for you to pick up.
We cannot deliver CSA chickens to your home.
new! 2024 chicken bulk purchase options
New for 2024, we have 3 different options for purchasing chicken at a discount, 2 of which include chicken pieces! These options require you to pick up your entire order at once on the farm in Livingston and likely requires additional freezer space. You will choose a pick up week when you place your order, and we will contact you the week prior to arrange a day & time for pick up. The farm is located approximately 35 minutes from Bozeman and 3 miles outside downtown Livingston.
Whole chickens: 50# or 100#
This is the same as our Whole Chicken CSA, but you are picking up your entire order at one time on the farm in Livingston rather than throughout the season at the markets.
50# whole chickens: approximately 12 chickens for $350 ($375 value)
100# whole chickens: approximately 25 chickens for $695 ($750 value)
chicken variety box: 2 sizes
Two sizes available, both include whole chickens, spatchcock (butterfly) chickens, chicken pieces, and broth. Pick up your entire order at one time on the farm in Livingston.
small chicken variety box:$625 ($683 value)
5 whole chickens
5 spatchcock (butterflied) chickens — our favorite way to cook a chicken
5 packages of breasts (2 per pkg)
5 packages of thighs (2 per pkg)
5 packages of drumsticks (4 per pkg)
5 packages of wings (1# each)
5 bone broth (1 quart/4 cups each)
large chicken variety box: $1,225 ($1,366 value)
10 whole chickens
10 spatchcock chickens
10 packages of breasts (2 per pkg)
10 packages of thighs (2 per pkg)
10 packages of drumsticks (4 per pkg)
10 packages of wings (1# each)
10 bone broth (1 quart/4 cups each)
2024 Whole Farm CSA
chicken, duck, lamb, pork, eggs, honey, bone broth, lard
Our most varied and comprehensive CSA to date, the 2024 Whole Farm CSA will give you a complete sampling of everything we produce on the farm! Designed around 2 pick ups, one in the spring and one in the fall, the Whole Farm CSA requires some extra freezer storage. All items will be delivered frozen, and can be stored frozen, except for the eggs. The eggs will last months in the refrigerator.
Included in the Whole Farm CSA is:
Spring Pick UP (May 2024):
40# assorted pork cuts
Will be made up of about 12# ground pork sausage (plain ground, Italian, breakfast, chorizo), 13-15# roasts and chops, and 13-15# other cuts like bacon, ham hocks, bratwurst, ribs, etc. This is an estimate of what your box will be made up of.
You will have some choices such as whether you’d like some cured cuts or all fresh cuts, and whether you’d like seasoned sausages (breakfast, Italian, chorizo, various bratwurst) or all plain ground pork. We are not able to further customize each box.
8 whole chickens
4 spatchcock (butterflied) chickens
5 bone broth (1 quart/4 cups each)
2 lard (1 pint each)
4 dozen eggs
FALL PICK UP (November 2024):
5 whole ducks
15# assorted lamb cuts
Will include an assortment of ground lamb, loin chops, riblets, shanks, stew meat, and leg of lamb
Assorted chicken cuts:
5 packages each of of breasts (2 per pkg), thighs (2 per pkg), wings (1# each), and drumsticks (4 per pkg)
1 pound honey
4 dozen eggs
Cost: $1,725 ($1,929 value) due at sign up
Additional details:
There are two pick ups: one in May and one in November.
You can choose to come to the farm to pick up, or we will schedule a meet up in Bozeman for each of the 2 pick ups. The meet up will likely be on a Saturday or Sunday at Bogert Park.
As a reference, 40# of pork cuts takes up 2-3 cubic feet and will fit in a standard above-fridge freezer.