Raising quality grassfed & grass finished beef since 1968.
Join Our Green Beef CSA
We are dedicated to helping our community learn about
the importance of eating green. We believe that adding
grassfed & grass finished Green Beef to your diet
is one of the best and tastiest ways of doing so!
Read more below to find out the specifics of joining our CSA.
Our herd of cattle is well cared for on our family
farm in Missouri. Our family has raised beef for years and we are now
sharing it with our San Diego family, friends and neighbors who encouraged
us
to make
it available
to the rest of the San Diego community.
San Diego is the only venue where we sell our Green Beef. We are Southern California
natives, born and raised, from preschool to college. Will was born and raised
in San Marcos, Cait grew up from Del Mar to Laguna Niguel and graduated from
USD in 2008. San Diego is our home and this is why we sell our beef here.
What Does CSA Stand For?
It stands for Community Supported Agriculture.
It stands for the tight knit relationship directly
between the farmer and the consumer. It stands
for providing high quality, healthy & fresh foods
to our local community.
Green Beef CSA Details
We operate our local San Diego CSA to provide a specialty venue for Green Beef. How is works is you sign up for a three month membership, which consists of 8 lbs per month for three months. That means you will get a total of 24 lbs of Green Beef over three months, and the cost is $195. That comes out to $8.12 per pound. Not bad for grassfed beef! See our cut list to the right to get a better idea of the cuts you will see in your membership shares.
When we have a steer butchered, we take inventory and split up the 8 lb CSA shares evenly with ground beef, all beef brats, steaks, roasts, etc. Don't worry, we make sure that everyone will get some of the prime steaks during their membership! Other than that though, we normally do not have the ability to take requests for certain cuts. We would hate to give one member filet mignon every time for their steak, and another member flank steak every time for their steak. We try to be fair to everyone. One thing you should know is that when a steer is butchered, approximately 55% of the beef is ground beef. We have half of the ground beef packaged in 1 lb packages, and the other half we turn into our all beef brats. This explains why in your CSA bag approximately half of the total weight is ground beef and brats.
Memberships run for three months, with pickup once per month in either San Marcos or San Diego. If you have a large family, or just eat a lot of beef you can always sign up for more than one membership; for example you could sign up for two memberships and pick up two shares each month for three months. If you are worried about being able to come to all of the pickups, you also have the option to pick up all three of your shares at one time. Just give us advance notice before your first pickup to make sure we can accomodate you at this time. If your family does not eat a lot of beef and are worried that 8 lbs per month might be too much for you, you can sign up for a three month membership and e-mail us requesting to pick up your share every other month.
Similar to other CSAs, the membership for the quarter is due at the beginning of your membership period. The cost for one share per month, for the three month membership is $195 total. You will receive 24 lbs during your three month membership, which comes out to $8.12 per pound of beef. For further pricing questions, see our Pricing Guide to the right. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Green Beef CSA, please sign up as soon as you can to reserve your spot. We can only accept so many members.
How do I become a member of Green Beef CSA?
You can sign up using our New Member Form
by clicking the link just to the right. The form lists available pickup options and times.
A note to our existing members:
If you would like to renew your membership for the next quarter simply send us an e-mail letting us know. If you would like to pay by credit card you may do so online at that time. We have PayPal and Google Checkout available to our members to pay online by credit card. See the links below.
Thank you for your continued support of Green Beef and 7 Springs Farm.
We are now offering payment by credit card, as well as cash or check. If paying by cash, you can bring your full payment to your first pickup. If paying by check, please mail a check made out to Green Beef for the amount of your full membership. Our mailing address is listed at the bottom right corner of this page. We accept credit card payments through your choice of Paypal or Google Checkout. Credit card payments must be received before your first pickup to avoid any delays.
Pickup Options:
Regular Memberships run for three months, with pickup once per month. You have the option to pick up all of your shares at one time if you have adequate freezer space. You also can choose to sign up for more than one share of Green Beef if you have a large family or just love eating our beef!
Pickup Locations:
San Marcos Pickups:
Closest major cross streets are El Norte and Woodland Pkwy
You will get complete directions in your sign up e-mail.
Tuesday Mornings from 10am - noon
Thursday Evenings from 4pm - 6pm
We are also discussing starting a Saturday morning pickup here. E-mail us and let us know if you might be interested in that.
San Diego Pickup:
Saturday from 9:30am to 1:00pm on the first Saturday of every month.
Golden Hill Farmers Market on B Street between 27th and 28th Street.
To look up the exact location you can use this address:
2740 B Street, San Diego, CA 92102
Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions.
New laws were just passed that require all meat for sale to list nutrition facts at the point of sale.
Here are the links to the nutrition facts for beef and lamb.
Beef Nutrition Facts
Lamb Nutrition Facts
Please note that these are generic nutrition facts given to us by the USDA,
and that these values were derived from meat where the animals were probably finished on corn. We are in the process of having our
beef and lamb analyzed so we can provide you with the accurate nutritional facts for our 100% grassfed and grass finished meat.
Please excuse us as our website is under construction. Not all of the links are working at this time.
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Green Beef
P.O. Box 2078
Temecula, CA 92593
(888)524-1484
info@EatGreenBeef.com