What is a CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a way for you to create a direct relationship with a farm and to receive a regular supply of fresh produce throughout the seasons. There are many positive benefits to joining our CSA Farm Share program. We work hard to grow the best vegetables we can on our farm and deliver them directly into your hands. Great tasting healthy produce, harvested just for you, is something that you just can't get from the supermarket. The CSA model of paying for the share ahead allows us to focus on farming because we know we are growing it for you. We are able to price the CSA Share reasonably compared to buying the same amount of produce pound for pound because of the efficiency of not having to "sell" it to you every week. Healthy fresh food at a fair price is the foundation of Lucky Field Organics.
What does it mean to become a member?
As a CSA member you know where and how your food is grown. You can get to know the farmers who grow your food and as members of the CSA you and your family have the opportunity to visit the farm and try your hand at farming if it suits you.
What is in a CSA share?
Each CSA share size we offer provides a good weekly supply of fresh vegetables, greens, and herbs over the course of the twenty week season. A single share averages 3 1/2 pounds weekly, ideal for one person. A medium share averages 5 1/2 pounds weekly, the perfect amount for a couple or a vegetarian. A large share averages 7 1/2 pounds weekly, an amount well suited for a family.
The weight of food per share is a little less than the average in the beginning of the season when leafy greens such as pea greens, spinach, kales, chards, Asian greens, mustards, and lettuces are more abundant. Then the weight increases as the variety increases over the weeks when your early spring crops such as snap peas, radishes, turnips, beets, kohlrabi, broccoli, and cauliflower are harvested. In this early time the produce offered is divided into five or six categories with two or more selections in each to choose from. Of course we are always willing to consider swapping when something simply does not appeal to you.
For a detailed list of what we grow, visit our Crop List page
The poundage of food given per share meets and often exceeds the average in mid season. During this time the restriction of categories will slowly decrease and the choices increase as we begin to harvest a variety of crops including cucumbers, scallions, cabbages, carrots, beans, summer squash, eggplant, and the always anticipated tomatoes.
The poundage of food given per share in the later part of the season tips the scales to heavier side as we begin to harvest such vegetables as peppers, potatoes, onions, parsnips, rutabagas, sweet potatoes, celeriac, and a selection of winter squashes. We also sometimes bring in treats for our members from other local farms such as apples, peaches, and corn.
We work hard on our farm to offer an abundance of choices throughout the season. We grow beautiful greens and most all of the familiar vegetables we all love and at the same time we offer recipes and practical tidbits to help you explore eating a wider variety of less common vegetables not often available to help raise the bar on the repertoire of vegetables you enjoy.
What is so important about eating locally?
"Eat local" is not just a catchy phrase. It's being aware that eating food grown where you live is what the world has always done, with the exception of the last 40 years or so. The efficiencies found by growing food far away and shipping it in have come at the price of quality, variety and safety. The volatility of the world today gives pause for thought. The value of eating fresh, local, and sustainably grown food is not only in the quality, taste, and health benefits; it is also found in the truth that if we support and help create a vibrant local agricultural economy, we are adding to the local and regional economy as well. Where change is now often dramatic and very fast, the old adage "think globally, act locally" has a new found resonance. With so many aspects of our lives relegated off to someone somewhere else, a CSA Farm Share is an opportunity to participate in the most basic of our needs, the food our families eat. Wouldn't you rather eat fresh healthy food grown locally by farmers you know?