Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Photography on this page by Will Elwell
Shares are sold out for the 2010 season.
CSA 2010
Join by January 20th, 2010, pay in full by check, and receive $10 discount. (sorry doesn't apply to those using PayPal due to PayPal fees, or those using payment plans - only on medium & large shares).
Join Our CSA
New for 2010, we are offering 3 share sizes: Small, Medium & Large.
Small: Ideal for 1 person who’s a light veggie eater. Approx. $11 worth of produce each week. Price of share: $220 (share does not include a tote bag,herb bunches, nor is it free choice like our larger size shares; shares are packaged for pick-up)
Medium: Ideal for 2-3 people or to supplement what you grow in your own garden. Approx. $15 worth of produce each week. Similiar to 1/2 share of past seasons. Price of share: $300 (includes a tote bag & free choice of harvest each week)
Large: Feeds a family of 4, or 2 heavy veggie eaters. Approx. $24 worth of produce each week. Similar to full share of seasons past. Price of share: $480 (includes tote bag & free choice of harvest each week)
Examples of possible early season shares (June)
Cooking greens consist of 3 types of kale, swiss chard, beet greens
Small:1 bag lettuce mix: $3.751 bunch carrots: $2.50 1 bunch cooking greens: $2.50 1 bunch beets: $2.50 Total: $11.25 |
Medium:1 bag lettuce mix: $3.751 bunch carrots: $2.50 1 bunch cooking greens: $2.50 1 bunch beets: $2.50 1 bag spinach: $4.00 Total: $15.25 |
Large:2 bags lettuce mix: $7.501 bunch carrots: $2.50 2 bunches cooking greens: $5.00 1 bunch beets: $2.50 1 bag spinach: $4.00 1 bunch turnips: $2.50 Total: $24.00 |
In addition to above when available Med shares receive 2 bunches of herbs weekly, Large shares receive 4 bunches of herbs. retail value of herb bunches $1.50 each. adds an extra $3 & $6 to share for that week.
Click here for more membership information and to sign up!
Our 2009 season ended Oct 24th. While the growing season wasn't the best, we were still able to make our commitment, and while there wasn't an overabundance of crops such as tomatoes, summer squash, cucumbers, eggplant and cauliflower (we still had some but not as much as in years past), shareholders still received $550 worth of produce for full shares, and 1/2 shares received $325 worth of produce.
What is a C.S.A.??
C.S.A. or Community Supported Agriculture is a mutual commitment between a farmer and consumer, where the consumer buys a 'share' in the farm pre-season. In return, the farmer supplies the shareholder with fresh produce grown by the farmer throughout the growing season (20 weeks). The 2010 season begins the first week of June (3rd, 5th) and ends the second week of October (13th, 16th).
There are many benefits to belonging to a C.S.A. Not only are you receiving food grown locally without the use of harmful herbicides, pesticides or chemicals, but fossil fuels are also conserved, since your food isn't traveling thousands of miles to reach you. As you enjoy the bounties of summer, you can also place a face to who grew it and maybe even the location where it grew in the field. There is also an opportunity to build community through the association with others interested in a healthy, safe environment. The commitment between the farmer and shareholder ensures the survival of local agriculture today and for future generations.
By becoming a shareholder, you are directly impacting and supporting life-sustaining agriculture practices.
To produce healthy food, you must have healthy soil, rich in nutrients and microbial life. The present agriculture business in our country is chemical-intensive and industrialized on a large scale, depleting the soil and robbing food of its nutrients. Sangha Farm uses age-old methods of crop rotation, composting, and cover cropping, along with biodynamic preparations to enrich our soil. The health of our soil is just as important to us as the health of our food and bodies.
We invite our C.S.A. members to visit the farm often. While we don't require members to work time, we certainly wouldn’t refuse the help.
We invite you to become a member of our C.S.A. and experience the benefits of eating locally grown produce "grown the way nature intended."
2010 shares are available now! Click here for ordering information.
Harvest Plan
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This is a general list of crops we grow. With some of the crops, we grow a few varieties of each. For example, onions—we grow three varieties: walla-walla, which is an early sweet onion, a yellow storage, and a red storage, which tend to be slightly later than the walla-walla. We reserve the right to limit amounts on vegetables when necessary. Shareholders receive between 5-10lbs of potatoes a season depending on harvest and share size.
Tomatoes: Due to the late blight experienced in 2009, we are working on methods to avoid it this year, the first being use of biodynamic preparations, the second hoop houses in the field.
Summer squash: Yellow and green zucchini and patty pan, crookneck
Winter Squash: Delicata, Acorn, Spaghetti,Butternut
Onions: Sweet, Yellow, Red & Cipollini
