CSA Information & Signup

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This is a relationship between you the consumer (or eater) and the farmer (us) who grow your vegetables. You support your farmer in his or her farming efforts and enjoy the benefits of eating freshest and most nutritious produce available. Your vegetables and fruit are picked only hours before delivery. Placed side by side our produce will rate higher than anything you can find in a grocery store! If you're looking for our meat order form, click here to download.

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At Growing Things Farm our CSA program is broken up into three sessions:

Our spring/summer session begins with early greens such as tender baby salad mix, baby spinach and a many variety of Asian greens. As the weeks progress your bags of produce transition into tasty peas, beans, carrots, beets, broccoli, onions, summer squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and much more. We also offer a fruit share with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums, apples, cherries, and we secure soft fruit (like apricots, peaches and nectarines) from our friends east of the mountains. Pick up is every week.

The fall/winter session continues through September and October with much of the same vegetables and fruit you get during the spring/summer session. We are blessed with a long growing season and succession planting insures us with a steady supply of the usual and the unusual vegetables There are new vegetables that appear that are the once a year ones like sweet corn, winter squash and shelling beans. Fall fruit comes in with crisp fall apples, juicy sweet pears, Asian pears, grapes, blueberries and nectarines. During this session vegetables will last longer and you have the option of picking up every week, or bi-monthly.

Winter/spring session begins in January and although the days are very short now, that doesn't mean all the fresh vegetables are gone! You don't have to go back to the grocery store and suffer. Not all of our vegetables come from our fields during this time, but a good many still do. We can still pull carrots, beets, salad mix, braising mix, spinach, hardy bunching greens, leeks, green onions, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower from the field. To give you a good variety we supplement vegetables from other farmers to put into your bag. As with the previous session you have the option of picking up every week, or bi-monthly.

Fruit share
Our fruit share is still available and we have contacts with our eastern Washington friends for apples and pears. We have frozen berries we add occasionally and when we can find a sustainable grower we will purchase fruit from out of state. Fruit such as bananas, tangerines, grapefruit and oranges are real popular during these cold dark days.

Eggs
Along with our vegetable and fruit shares we also offer egg shares. Our eggs come from a wonderful laying breed. They are gentle and sweet and terrific layers.

They are also great foragers and besides eating their daily meal of organic grains they are out the rest of the day eating in their pastures, snacking on the great greens growing as well as hunting out the tasty worms and insects, except when they are laying of course. They do that in the egg house. During certain times of the day it is impossible to go in without covering your ears it is so loud with the proud exclamations of their contributions to the cause.

Egg shares will not be available until later in the 2010 season.

Our CSA program is created around customer satisfaction. Members who pick up at a farmers market have the opportunity to trade a vegetable they do not want for a preferred one. Those picking up at the farm or at a drop off location can let us know your preferences and we will accommodate you.

In addition to the farm fresh high quality produce you may also sign up for our newsletter which is full of recipes, storage information, news of the farm and what’s going on in the world of sustainable farming.

Sign up for our CSA!