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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking into buying a side of beef, myself. How has your experience with the farm share been?[/quote]

Excellent. I'm signed up with GroundWorks Farm - they do weekly pickups in Alexandria, Arlington, Annapolis and on their farm out in the boonies in MD. I get their weekly produce & eggs and their monthly meat & cheese. Meats are frozen - I find the ground beef defrosts well, doesn't get rubbery like when I try to freeze the fresh stuff from the grocery isle. Produce is good too - more than we can use most weeks. They do a points system for meat so you get 17 points each month - a pound of ground beef, bacon, or sausage is 1 point, a steak is 3-7 points depending on size, a big roast is 6+ points. We walk away with 12-15 lbs of meat each month because we mostly eat ground beef and bacon. If you want mostly steaks, you'll get fewer pounds of meat each month, understandably. They also do stew & soup pieces for a point each.

We still do $50/week at the grocery store for milk, yogurt, coconut milk, beans, nuts, etc but we have a toddler who drinks a freakish amount of milk so if you're just taking a splash in your morning coffee, you'd probably make due with an every other week grocery run for whatever you want that's not in the share. [/quote]

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