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Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative

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5.0 (2 reviews)

Piedmont Agrarian Collaborative is a new collaboration of small family farmers in North Carolina's central Piedmont, centered around a cluster of farms near Saxapahaw, who are joining acres together to provide you with the highest quality produce, pastured meats, and value-added products. We currently have weekly online sales available at a downtown Durham drop point on Thursday afternoons (3-5pm), developed in collaboration with American Underground, and for on-farm pickup at Pont Reading Farm in Oaks, near Saxapahaw, on Friday morning (10am-Noon). Please place your weekly orders online here before midnight Wednesday night, and be sure to specify your preferred drop point using the dropdown menu at the top-right hand of your shopping basket's page. There are no seasonal commitments; order precisely what you'd like a la carte each week. At our farms -- which include Pont Reading Farm, the Henry Farm, Eat Dirt Farm, Farmbelly, Machaven Farm, Dinner Bell Farm, Braeburn Farm, and Red Tail Grains -- we believe healthy soils produce delicious, nutritionally dense, healthy food. To build soil health, we follow no-till, regenerative, agroecological principles. Although not certified organic, all our produce is grown without synthetical chemical inputs or sprays. We use cover crops between plantings, rotate livestock through growing areas, and diversify the crops we are growing -- and our farms are situated in woodland settings, creating vibrant "agroforestry" landscapes teeming with pollinators and biodiversity. Our animals all have access to the great outdoors, on pasture and in woodlands. We also grow all year round, including through the winter. This means that the food you are buying is fresh, local, and of the highest quality. Our focus is not only on growing quality food and regenerating soils and landscapes but also on building community together while we're at it. We will be opening our farmer-led food hub in Burlington in summer 2024, in collaboration with our hosts at TS Designs, whose naturally dyed Black Walnut t-shirts, produced "dirt to shirt" all within the Carolinas, we are also pleased to sell. Please join us for a launch party on Friday, June 7, from 4 to 7pm, at 2053 Willow Springs Lane, Burlington, NC 27215 -- to learn more. This will be the first of many in-person farm-to-feast events the collaborative will be regularly doing. Please contact us with any questions or to get more deeply involved, via farm@pontreading.com.

All Products

Organic Fed Pasture Raised Brown Eggs

$7.49/unit

A dozen ungraded brown eggs from small flocks that are fed from regionally sourced and locally milled organic feed.

Beet Greens

$3.00/unit

Half pound bag (8 oz.) of trimmed beet greens. Beet greens are in the same family as spinach and Swiss chard and have similar characteristics but with a sweet earthiness and a hardiness that those others lack when temps get high.

Beets (1lb, topped)

$3.00/lb

Carrots

$4.00/lb

Pont Reading Farm

Collards

$4.00/unit

Unique Southern Heirloom Collards that trace their origins to a diverse array of growers across the South. These varieties have been selected for striking purple traits in their stems, veins, and leaves by Pont Reading Farm from an heirloom "ultracross" developed by the Heirloom Collard Project of the Utopian Seed Project and Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.

Curly Kale

$4.00/unit

Bouncy curly kale is great for rubbed kale salads, in soups or sautéed. Great for chips too!

Green Onions

$3.00/unit

Lettuce Mix

$4.00/oz

Light, crunchy, and simple-- have a salad or top your sammich.

Sweet Salad Turnips (topped)

$4.00/lb

Tokyo Market turnips are sweet and juicy. Slice fresh or roast. Sometimes known as a ground apple because you can bite right in!

4.25lb - 5lb Pasture-Raised Whole Chicken

$29.00/unit

Final weight is 4.25 to 5 lbs. The final price will be between $29.99 and $34.99 Dinner Bell Farm chickens live in shelters in the fresh grass on the pasture and are moved daily. Chickens are raised seasonally (March – October) so that they can spend their lives outdoors. Dinner Bell broods, raises, and processes their chickens themselves, on the farm, to ensure the highest quality of life and the best food for your table.

5lb - 6lb Pasture-Raised Whole Chicken

$34.99/unit

Final weight is 5 to 6 lbs. The final price will be between $34.99 and $39.99. Dinner Bell Farm chickens live in shelters in the fresh grass on the pasture and are moved daily. Chickens are raised seasonally (March – October) so that they can spend their lives outdoors. Dinner Bell broods, raises, and processes their chickens themselves, on the farm, to ensure the highest quality of life and the best food for your table.

3/4lb- 1.2lbPastured Pork Chops, Bone-In

$9.99/lb

Final weight 3/4lb- 1.2lb for $9.99- $15.99 bone-in pork chops from heirloom hogs raised in an agroforestry setting with access to fields, forest, and a non-GMO locally milled feed.

Pastured Pork Picnic Shoulder Roast

$47.50/lb

Final weight 3.9lb | 4.9lb | 5.8lb from $47.50- $63.80 pastured pork Boston Butt roast from heirloom hogs raised in an agroforestry setting with access to fields, forest, and a non-GMO locally milled feed.