Stillman’s, best known in the Boston area for its popular produce CSA boxes, also offers a meat CSA with chicken, beef, lamb, and pork from its animal farms. Members can purchase quarter, half, or full shares, receiving anywhere from 5–20 pounds of meat a month, with cuts mixed up festively. Now Stillman’s is adding a new pick-up spot in Quincy for its meat CSA customers, joining other pick-up locations in Jamaica Plain, Brookline, Lunenburg, and Cambridge.
“I love the meat I’ve gotten. I’ve gotten lamb (chops, ground); pork (belly, sliced bacon, chops, sausage); beef (ground, stew, steak); chicken (whole),” says keencook1, while TheScribe says: “It seems to me a great way to get grass-fed meat easily. As you know, it’s catch as catch can at supermarkets.” Right, says pasta, who notes: “Many farms finish their animals on grain, which diminishes the health benefits of grass-fed meat.”
The price of meat in a half share averages out to be about $7 a pound.
Stillman’s [MetroWest]
1205 Barre Road, New Braintree
508-867-7193
Board Link: Stillman’s Meat CSA: New Pick-up Location/Quincy, MA
I totally second your love of Stillman Farm’s meat! We recently signed up for their meat CSA and it’s absolutely wonderful. We had our first pick up last Sunday at Clear Flour Bakery in Boston. They pull up their truck and voila, you have your meat! We only signed up for the 1/4 share, which is 5lbs for 6 months for $275. We thought we’d go on the smaller side to try it out. Not a bad deal at all. About 3/4 of our share were high quality meats and the other 1/4 was ground beef, stew type meat, etc. There are only 2 of us, so the 5lbs is pretty good, but I think next time, we might do the 1/2 share or 10lbs as we heard you get even more variety of meat and even some larger cuts like roasts. If we don’t eat it all, we can just freeze some of it. Anyway we JUST posted an entry in our own blog, discussing all of the goodies in our first installment. There are a bunch of pictures of all our yummy meat selections. Check it out if you want, there should be a link in my profile.