
Frequently Asked
Questions
Q: What is Community
Supported Agriculture?
A: The concept of CSA membership began more than thirty years
ago as organic family-run farms realized
that a new local delivery system was necessary. This new system of operation would greatly
enhance the
consumer understanding and appreciation for the process of growing
and harvesting high quality organic
foods. The immediate
concern was always price, which was hard to overcome when marketed through
other distributors. As a
result, some courageous and bright farmers decided to eliminate the costly
middle-man and bring the savings direct to the consumer.
This Community Supported Agriculture concept has enabled many locally operated farms throughout
the U.S. to stay in operation in order to provide the highest quality local, sustainable, and certified
organic produce for the discriminating consumer. The model that we have embraced involves a
set fee for the growing season in exchange for a weekly delivery of organic vegetables and small fruit.
Q: What are the benefits?!
A:
For You:
·
Eating
high nutritional density Organic food fuels your body best
·
Reduces
stress and helps to detoxify all those competing poisons from our air, water,
& our general
environment
·
A
healthy body wards off the normal ailments common to our high paced culture
resulting in more
productivity
and a heightened sense of well-being
·
Exchanges
poor food choices & lifestyle habits for life long great behavioral choices
regarding
caring
for our most important asset: our health. Physical, emotional, psycho-spiritual
For Us:
·
Enables
conscientious producers of food to continue to grow excellent quality produce
of all kinds
in a manner that is in harmony with the
cycles of natural intent; pure & driven by quality and what
is
best
·
Provides
for local and sustainable work for residents who need not only a job but a
purpose in
providing good towards their fellow man
·
Discourages
factory-like production of food driven only by price and expediency which leads
to
long term ill-health of body, mind, soul and the earth created for our benefit
Q: What size shares are
there?
A: -Full share $575
-Half
share $375
-Single share $225 (please, no sharing)
Q: How many people does
each share feed?
A: Full share serves 3 or more
adults/older children
Half share serves 2 or fewer adults
& small children
1st time trial –single share
serves 1 individual
Q: Can I split a share?
A: Shares are designed to be used normally for people within
the same household. That is why we
have a full, half and our new urban individual share (which is
designed for one person use).
Q: What do I get in a
share?
A: Full share – bushel box containing
10-14 seasonal items
Half share – ½ bushel box containing 8-11 seasonal items.
Individual share- same # of items as a half share but less amounts
View the 2008 newsletters for exact weekly produce lists!