CSA: Community Supported Agriculture

Your share includes over 30 different vegetables including beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, corn, Swiss chard, eggplant, cucumbers, garlic, kale, lettuce, melons, onions, peppers, spinach, squash, tomatoes, and more. In addition your share will often include fresh herbs and cut flowers. The first season of the year is our Winter season which runs from the first of January to mid-March. The Spring/Summer season runs from mid-March to mid-July, and our Fall season finishes the year running from mid-September to mid-December. During the harvest season, you will receive your share in a large reusable basket which, depending on the time of year contains enough vegetables for two serious vegetable eaters or four to six lighter vegetable eaters. If you think a share may be too much food for your household, we encourage you to split a share with a friend, or preserve some of the produce for use later. Along with each basket you will receive a newsletter that will let you know what is happening on the farm, what's in your basket, and a recipe or two. In addition to the vegetables, we also offer farm fresh eggs, raw honey, pastured chicken and heirloom turkeys for sale.

We encourage members to take part in farm activities, from helping with the weeding, planting and harvesting, to participating in special farm events. In the spring bring your family and enjoy a hot breakfast cooked on the farm. Summer time offers an abundance of flavorful heirloom tomatoes that you will want to come enjoy at our annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting and Salsa Contest. In the fall, come and pick the perfect pumpkin and enjoy a potluck dinner around the campfire while we are treated by a local Blue Grass band. You may also enjoy attending our annual Seed Exchange event in December to share your open-pollinated seeds or purchase from local growers for your own flower or vegetable garden.

There are risks inherent in a CSA membership. We all share in the ups and downs of the farming experience. We plant successive plantings of the most important crops so there is rarely a complete lack of any item. There is always an abundance of other crops which we will offer as extras at the drop-off sites or have u-pick days out on the farm where members can come out and pick from the abundance to freeze or can.

Factored into the cost of a CSA share are the things which have no value in the industrial agricultural model. Things like air and water quality, sustainable farming practices, working with nature rather than against it, and sustainability for farm families and rural communities. By joining with a local farmer with a desire to produce responsible food for your family you are helping to move us in the direction of a sustainable food system.