CSA ADD-ON OPTIONS
More great add-ons to come: we’ll be offering local honey and goat meat à la carte in the barn later this CSA season!
Grass-fed beef
from HANAPPE RANCH
The fabulous farmers (and Spring Wind CSA members) Kerry Hanifl and Gregg Rappe at Hanappe Ranch raise 100% grass-fed beef just up the road on Hwy 3. We admire their farming practices--certified organic land and animals, rotational grazing, attentive care to animal welfare--plus we can attest to the quality of their delicious beef!
This year they are offering only American Wagyu and Wagyu packages (they are sold out of Black Angus). Their 2025 CSA options can be found here on their website!
Please call or email Kerry to reserve your beef or with questions. 651-341-5995, hanapperanch@gmail.com.
SHEEP CHEESE SHARE
from SHEPHERD’S WAY FARMS
Jodi Ohlsen Read and Steven Read are the farmers and cheesemakers at Shepherd's Way Farms in Nerstrand. For more than 20 years they have been leaders in our local farming community: shepherding, stewarding their land, making award-winning cheeses, and advocating for family farms. We're delighted to offer their delicious artisan sheep cheese as a monthly CSA again this year; each share includes three different cheeses, for pickup once a month with your vegetables.
See below for a letter from the farmers with details and sign-up info.
Hello Spring Wind CSA Members!
We are excited to offer a sheep cheese add-on from Shepherd's Way Farms again this year!
A sheep cheese CSA add-on is a fun way to try a variety of locally-made farmstead sheep cheeses.
With our cheese CSA add-on, once a month you receive a selection three Shepherd’s Way Farms farmstead sheep cheeses. Ranging from ricotta, to fresh sheep cheese, tomme style, Manchego style, blue to bloomy rinds, and specialty cheese spreads, cheeses are selected to best pair with the seasonal produce.
We also include tips on pairings, recipes focused on seasonal vegetables, and all around cheese and farm info.
If you haven't tried our award-winning cheeses yet, we'd love to introduce them! Sheep cheese is harder to find because there are few sheep dairies in this country and sheep produce less milk than goats or cows. Sheep milk is highly valued because it is exceptionally nutritious, with more calcium, protein and many other nutrients than cow or goat milk. And it makes delicious cheese!
Our family has been raising sheep and making cheese just outside Northfield for more than 20 years. We love caring for the land, our animals and making cheese for our community. There are not many farmstead (made by the farmer, on the farm, with the farm's milk) sheep cheese makers in the country. Your CSA helps keep the farm rolling, preserving the cheesemaking art and making sure you have access to real local foods. You can see more about our farm in the PBS Off90 video here.
The Shepherd's Way Farms cheese add-on is $150 for the season. Cheese share pick-up begins in July and runs through November, with a pick-up once a month with your usual CSA veggie pick-up.
To sign up, email us at Jodi@shepherdswayfarms.com with SPRINGWIND CSA in the subject heading. Please include your name and phone number. Payment can be made by check or by card over the phone or by Venmo to Steven-Read-5. Our mailing address is 8626 160th Street East, Nerstrand Mn 55053.
We're looking forward to the season!
Warmly, Jodi & Steven