Know Your Farmer:

We started Flying S Farms in 2003, with a strong desire to produce clean, healthy food through good stewardship of the land.
 
Our name Flying S Farms came from a family history of flying and reaching for the highest standards we can to provide you with the best we can grow or raise.

We believe that a healthy soil produces healthy plants, which produces healthy people. We use cover crops to build soil productivity and practice integrated pest management control.

The CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) concept includes a sharing of risk. We cannot control the weather. However, we will do our best to provide what we have planned, but if we have a natural disaster that ruins our crops, we thank you for supporting us and sharing the risk.

More Questions? Contact us by phone at 615-542-1078 or email us at bakingfarmer@hotmail.com

Our 2012 CSA Subcriptions will consist of an
seventeen-week season starting first week in
June and continues through the last week in September. Additional 4 week "Fall Option" is available for the month of October.

Members may pick up their share at our Farm by appointment. We will also deliver to the Franklin Farmers' Market, Rutherford County Farmers' Market, East Nashville Farmers' Market and Stones River Locally Grown Market Pick up Location. Other delivery locations may be scheduled as we receive sufficient request.

A weekly Full Share is a half-bushel basket containing enough produce for approximately 4 people, depending on your eating and cooking habits. Half Shares are also available. We also have Semi-Half Shares available delivered every other week, great for single households or if you just want a smaller portion, this would also work great if you want alittle extra every other week.

Along with your produce, when available, you may occasionally receive value-added items, a newsletter with recipes, farm news and tips on how to use and store your produce. 

Reasons to Eat Local Food:

Eating local means more for the local economy. A dollar spent locally generates twice as much income for the local economy. When businesses are not owned locally, money leaves the community at every transaction. 

Locally grown produce is fresher. Most produce has been in transit or cold-stored for days or weeks. Freshness affects both the taste of your food and the nutritional value.

Locally grown fruits & vegetables have longer to ripen & taste better. Locally grown fruit does not have to be shipped thousands of miles and is allowed to ripen until the last possible minute on the vine.

Buying local food keeps us in touch with the seasons. By eating with the seasons, we can eat foods when they are at their peak flavor and nutrition, are most abundant - and the least expensive.

Buying locally grown food is fodder for a wonderful story. Knowing part of the story about your food is part of enjoying a meal.

Eating local means greater food security. Food with less distance to travel from farm to plate has less susceptibility to harmful contamination.

Local food translates to more variety. Farmers can try small crops of unusual or heirloom varieties that would probably never make it to a large market.