Dear Fellow Grower,
Imagine that every week during your busy harvest season, two pre-formatted recipe pages magically appear in your InBox. Like these: Asparagus | Sugar Snap Peas.
The day your farm newsletter is supposed to be finished but you can't get to it until late evening because you're harvesting and packing and weeding all day long -- and presto! You just drop our recipes into your farm newsletter, and then you get a good night's sleep, knowing that your customers are taken care of. (Well, maybe not a good night of sleep, because you still have to write up some farm news, but you'll at least get some sleep!)
For many years, Farmer John has struggled with this same newsletter challenge due to the demands of the harvest season.
Mindful of this, Angelic Organics has distilled vegetable info from Farmer John's Cookbook into 38 pages of recipe PDFs, which we're making available to CSA farmers and market gardeners to include in your newsletters.
Farmer John's Cookbook was written by a true pioneer in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, Farmer John Peterson and his farm, Angelic Organics!
Angelic Organics is a leader in Community Supported Agriculture and Biodynamics, helping to connect people with their food, their farmers, and healthful living.
Farmer John's Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables is the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary "
The Real Dirt on Farmer John" which has won 30 awards at major film festivals worldwide, including award for best documentary from Slow Food International Film Festival.
- All 38 Recipe PDF's are posted below. You will find that they follow the growing season, so you can have recipes for whatever is popping up in your fields.
- The recipe pages are formatted to fit an 8 1/2" x 11" page.
- They are attractive whether printed in grayscale or color.
- If you find yourself using only one of our two pages per week, you are welcome to use the other page in your newsletter in 2008.
We hope that offering these pages will make your season a bit easier.
Remember that all the recipes offered here, and more, are available in Farmer John`s Cookbook. Angelic Organics gives each of our shareholders a cookbook, providing our members with ways to work with all the vegetables of the season, starting with the very first delivery. The book builds shareholder community by providing new ways to think about food and farms -- ushering the reader from field to feast. It takes a lot of pressure off of our weekly newsletter, as we just refer our shareholders to recipes in the cookbook for featured vegetables that week. We regard it as sort of a "user's manual" for our shareholders; we have been most happy with how it has served our members.
Farmer John`s Cookbook is available in quantity discounts for $19.50 per book with free shipping (in the continental U.S.), and your farm can either pass these savings on to your shareholders or make some profit on each book sold.
Read what CSA shareholders say about our cookbook
With your purchase of a copy of our cookbook, we’ll include a complementary DVD of episode #111 of the hit PBS cooking show, The Hippy Gourmet, which features Farmer John's Cookbook, Farmer John, and singer-songwriter Lesley Littlefield. This DVD is valued at $15 and we will include it for free, with your purchase of our cookbook.
Quantity discounts are also available.
Warm regards,
Farmer John
Read what others are saying about our book!
This is a delicious book, equal parts food for the mind and belly. Relish it. 
~Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma~
It's Whole Earth Catalog-style authenticity for the 21st century...
~ Newsweek ~
This is such a good book, every market farmer should have one.
~ Lynn Byczynski, Growing for Market ~
For full Growing for Market review…
Our compliments on the most entertaining cookbook ever!!
~ Marsha Gravesen, Biodynamic Association ~
More Cookbook Raves
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS
Receive quantity discounts on Farmer John's Cookbook (by the case of 12 books), just $19.50 per book (or less) with free shipping (in the continental U.S.). Pass on the savings to your customers or make some extra money for your farm. The cookbook retails for $29.95.
Discounts on The Real Dirt on Farmer John film DVD also, by the case of 12 and 30 DVDs.
VISIT OUR STORE for quantity purchases.
READ what CSA shareholders say about the cookbook.
Hippy Gourmet DVDs not included with bulk cookbook purchases.
*All books in a quantity purchase must go to a single address.
LEARN MORE about Farmer John's Cookbook.
LEARN MORE about The Real Dirt on Farmer John.
Here's what CSA Farmers say about our Recipe Service!
"I just want to say THANK YOU! Our family as well as the other 100 families that are members of our CSA are really enjoying the weekly veggie tips and recipes."
~ Jen, Take Root Farm -- Buckley, WA
"Thanks for the recipes – it really does save us quite a bit of time every week."
~ Acorn Creek Farm CSA -- Tomah, WI
"This is so wonderful!!!! Keep up the with the great ideas. Sending good vibes your way."
~ Sharon, Firefly Farm -- Cananadaigua, NY
"The recipes are great, and several members have already bought the book!
~ Chubby Bunny Farm -- Falls Village, CT
"I received your newsletter today and it is wonderfully done. I know my CSA customers are going to enjoy all the information and good recipes you pack in."
~ Otter Creek Farm -- Elk, WA
"This is a wonderful thing you're doing!!! My 240-member distribution starts in an hour and I just copied your recipes for the newsletter...THANK YOU. Now I have time to eat lunch first. YEAH!!!!!"
~ Kate, Huguenot Street Farm -- New Paltz, NY
"Thanks for this service. My husband and I started deliveries for our first season a few weeks ago--Little Truck Farm--and its very helpful."
~ Heidi, Little Truck Farm -- Belgium, WI
"I just love getting the emails each week. Thanks for your time and the inspiration your farm brings to the farmers and for the knowledge you have put out there about CSA's. May you always have soil under your fingernails and veggies in your belly!"BR>
~ Linda, Winter Green Farm -- Noti, OR
"I have the cookbook and I absolutely love it, and Farmer John's humor too:) Our CSA is small, only 73 members, this is our first summer. I appreciate having help with the CSA, the recipes are a wonderful help to me. My husband is 69 and I am 65, so this is a real labor of love for us."
Thank you very much,
~ Doe Run Farm
Lifelong farmer John Peterson runs Angelic Organics, one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United States. More than 1,300 families in the Chicago area receive a weekly delivery of vegetables and herbs from Angelic Organics. John is the subject of Taggart Siegel s award-winning feature documentary film, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, which has been seen in theaters and on television throughout the world.
