Greenhearts @ the SF Underground Market

San Francisco Bay Area CSA, Community Supported Agriculture Fruit and Vegetable Delivery, Organic Agriculture, Pasture Raised Meat, Eggs, Sustainable Agriculture

San Francisco Bay Area's truly farm fresh to you CSA

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Standing In It



For a special Valentine’s Day I took Aurora out to see some pigs. And to walk through a field of cow pies. Not to mention wade through a flock of squawking omnivorous birds. Romantic? Well, the foray into the Panoche Valley to visit the Douglas Ranch and Our Family Farm, neighbors in remote and beautiful Paicines, was plenty dreamy. Luscious green pastures, emerald hills, blue skies, and happy, healthy animals, plus hay bale buildings, a donkey, frolicking children- what could be more romantic than such a bucolic scene, at least for two farmers striving for their own version of pastoral bliss? We are working on forging a lasting partnership with these two farms to supply you with the very best in pasture raised meats and eggs. Because they are neighbors and work together, we can streamline delivery of their products to our distribution center, thereby reducing carbon costs and expenses. And all the animals on these farms work in symbiosis with the ecosystem and each other, a perfect example of a sustainable farm operation.


If you are alarmed by feedlot beef, disgusted by cage grown animals, fearful of meat packing warehouses, this is the only realistic solution. Small scale organic family farmers raising beautiful, strong animals outdoors on natural green grass. Conveniently packaged, frozen fresh, these products are unlike anything in supermarkets, even their so-called organic meats. The difference is pasture!


Our plants are thriving right now, the wet weather and mild temperatures in Half Moon Bay, even in winter, dramatically improving our winter farming production. Greenhouses have really made a difference. With your support, Aurora and I are trying out exciting new seed varieties and relentlessly forging ahead with our dream of being organic farmers, in tune with nature, at peace with our surroundings. Sure, inspecting piles of animal poop may sound like we’re a couple of romantics on a pleasure cruise, but we’re willing to do it for you. We’ve got boots.


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Imagine walking out your back door and picking from your bountiful garden delicious, ripe fruits and vegetables, gathering fresh laid eggs and choosing the plumpest chicken for that night’s dinner.

What would it be like to have only the finest hand picked and most natural foods, as if you lived on an abundant and thriving organic farm?

If you can imagine what eating was like one hundred years ago, maybe in the French countryside or the American prairie, then you can come pretty close to the experience of joining the Greenhearts Family Farm CSA.

Only, we bring the experience right to your door.

The Greenhearts Family Farm delivery service, or "CSA" brings together local, pasture based and organic food and artisanal product providers for Bay Area families demanding the finest California has to offer.

Each week families receive a selection of the finest local seasonal food.

Greenhearts Family Farm puts the ecosystem and local environment before profit. Sustainably directed, we put our years of learning with the world’s foremost organic growers to work every day in the rejuvenation of our land and the protection of our sacred air and water.

Join Greenhearts Family Farm Bay Area CSA and begin to experience what food can be. We promise you’ll be amazed by our heirloom varieties of the finest seasonal greens, fruits and vegetables picked each morning, omega rich, blue, brown and white shelled eggs bursting with bright orange yolks and healthy vibrant organic chickens raised naturally on grass and fresh air.

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2009 CSA Season - April through November

Our large CSA box contains seasonal local offerings and is full of the organic fruits and vegetables you love delivered each week to your door! We also deliver our pastured organic chicken, eggs and grass fed beef.

Our service area includes the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, Salinas, San Jose and Hollister.

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A. Week to Week - $30 per box (paid each week)

B. Spring Package (16 boxes + 1 box free) = $475 (paid in advance)

C. Summer Package (16 boxes + 1 box free) = $475 (paid in advance)

D. Spring & Summer Package (32 boxes + 2 boxes free + 1 dozen free eggs + Gift Pack) = $900 (paid in advance)

About Our Farm Fresh Food

Greenhearts Family Farm's organic pastured eggs are rich in complex omega acids, the same found in salmon, and are much fresher than store bought. Our healthy free range organic pastured chicken is the highest quality anywhere in the world. Kinder to animals, better for the environment, the best for you.

We also have organic fresh flowers and local grass fed beef.

Purchasing a package now helps us maintain a thriving farm. Plus, it saves you money.

So join us in raising better tasting and healthier food. Come out to the farm with your family and see it happen. Be part of a greener environment and a stronger local economy.

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Starting the Seed

Friday, May 23, 2008

By Jessica Ablamsky

Paul Hamilton traveled around the world, but now the San Benito County native is back to debut his Aurora Brand Organics produce at this year's Farmer's Market, which opened May 21 in Downtown Hollister. "I've had a very privileged life," Hamilton said. "I've gotten to see a lot of things." Hamilton taught English in Hollister's sister city, Takino, Japan, and traveled across Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, China and Europe.
Hamilton and his partner Aurora Wilson spent nearly a year in New Zealand. "I worked for about a dozen farms through a program called Willing Workers on Organic Farms," Hamilton said. "It was just a good opportunity for me and Aurora to see what different people are doing." After returning to the United States, Hamilton worked as a gardener on George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in San Francisco. "It's kind of weird that I used my film degree to grow melons for Darth Vader," Hamilton said. Hamilton received a degree in film and digital media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Andrew Ihley, an organic farmer on Skywalker Ranch, taught him the morals and methods of organic farming. "Without his profound mentorship, I would not be able to farm on my own," Hamilton said, in an e-mail.


Hamilton wanted to pursue a simpler lifestyle. "I realized I was living a sort of carbon-intensive lifestyle," Hamilton said. "I think, maybe return home and sort of balance the equation." Hamilton grew up in San Benito County. "My dad moved us from Los Angeles to a little house right around here in Tres Pinos," Hamilton said. "A lot of people from my generation wanted to get the hell out, but I think there's opportunity here."

Hamilton and Wilson are growing on three acres at Paul Hain's ranch, Hain Ranch Organics. "In exchange for me helping him, he's giving me this land," Hamilton said. "This was sort of just a dead field here." Hamilton grows cut flowers and a variety of produce, including heirloom fingerling potatoes, carrots and corn. "I'm actually growing things that I like to eat, and seeing how it goes," Hamilton said. His first job was growing apricots on the ranch next door. "I think, at this scale, you can kind of balance things," Hamilton said. "I looked everywhere in California to find a situation." Hain Ranch Organics is nestled in the rolling hills that surround Tres Pinos. "I was on that bluff up there with my buddy," Hamilton said. "He pointed down here and he said, 'That's Paul Hain's ranch.'" Hamilton cornered Hain. "He did," Hain said. "He was lurking."

The ranch had everything Hamilton was looking for. Hain produces organic chicken, eggs and walnuts. The baby chicks live in a corrugated metal shed. The floor is lined with pine shavings. When composted, the chicken manure and pine shavings make a rich fertilizer, Hamilton said. He uses the compost to start seeds. He uses the brown paper bags from the organic chicken feed to line the furrows of his plot. The bags decompose naturally. "Literally everything you see over here has been recycled from other uses," Hamilton said. From a local gas station he retrieved cases from soda bottles. Hamilton uses those to start seeds. He constructed tables for his seed trays from old lumber. His irrigation system was salvaged from a farm that shut down. Purchased new, the drip tubes would have cost thousands. "All this hose, it was just lying in the fields," Hamilton said. "I was actually able to start a small scale farm with almost no money." One person can farm two or three acres by themselves, Hamilton said.
Hamilton does not rely on many of the standard practices of modern farming. "It's certainly a lot more physical work," Hamilton said, "But I think we rely a lot less on tractors and giant combines."Local organic farmer Paul Hamilton talks about his crops that will be sold at the Hollister Farmers' Market this year.

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