CSA information
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What is a CSA (community supported agriculture)?
CSA is a food system model that allows the customers (community) to more directly support their local farmers (agriculture). You, the customer, buy a "share" at the beginning of the season, purchasing in advance all your veggies for the year. This gives us, as farmers, peace of mind that our veggies will have a home every week and a boost of capital at a time when we’re normally running low on cash. Over the past five seasons we have come to truly love this relationship between the farm and the CSA members. The members get a more intimate relationship in eating locally as they learn to use all their veggies in a given week. As farmers, we’ve learned to share more about how/why/what we do in a way that we just can’t at a farmers market or farmstand. Our CSA is also small allowing us to get to know our different members easily and often.
How does it work?
Every week we harvest and pack up 7 different veggies and fruits for each share. You, as a member of the CSA, will come pick up your box of veggies from our onsite walk in cooler. You will receive a newsletter the day before reminding you to pick up as well as musings from the farm, veggies to expect in your share and recipe ideas. The share is comprised of the best of what’s in season that week and you will have the ability to swap out an item if necessary every week. You pay $35/week for a box that’s true value is between $40-$50 depending on the time of year and exact veggies in it every week.
CSA options
This is our pre-pre season share- you’ll receive 2 boxes of microgreens a week starting the weekend of April 5th, until the weekend of April 26th- 4 weeks total.
May mostly salad fixings share: Starting the weekend of May 3rd and going to the weekend of the May 24th (4 weeks total), this is our early season option and will be full of microgreens, salad mixes, kale/collards, radishes, turnips, and asian greens. $140 for the full four weeks.
Full season all the good stuff share: Starting the weekend of May 31st and ending the weekend of October 11th (20 weeks total), this is the full beautiful season CSA where you will get to enjoy sugar snap peas, carrots, beets, garlic, broccolini, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, green beans, cucumbers, melons, greens, winter squash and more. It’s a great experience to see the full offerings that a season provides. 7 items a week, $700 for the full 20 weeks.
We offer a six week end to the season CSA that will start the weekend of Oct 18th and end the weekend of November 22nd (weekend before Thanksgiving). This share is full of our sweet potatoes, microgreens, radicchio, winter squash, salad greens, and root veggies. 7 items a week, $210 for the full 6 weeks.
The full monty 30 week CSA: All the options described above so that you have 30 weeks of continuous veggies. May 3rd to November 22nd. 7 veggies every week.
Finally, we would love to be able to offer as much of our shares as there’s need for on a sliding scale basis, unfortunately at this point we have a bottom line too, so we are offering a few spots this season sliding scale. If you, however, are passionate about as many members of your community getting the good produce we grow we would love to have you sponsor part or all of someone else’s CSA, obviously only if this is within your means. If this resonates with you or you would like to have a more in depth conversation, drop us a line! If you want to donate a different amount than $20 (any amount is legit) send us an email: graciesgreensvashon@gmail.com
What you might expect in a given week:
We grow anything from sweet potatoes to heirloom french cantaloupes to artichokes. Don’t worry though, we also grow all the usual suspects as well: cucumbers, heirloom tomatoes, sugar snap peas, and winter squash. Below is an idea of what you can expect in a weekly share.
early May share: komatsuna, salad mix, hakurei turnips, radishes, double pac choi, and microgreens
late June share: cucumbers, cauliflower, beets, pointed cabbage, pac choi, and double snap peas
late July share: carrots, salad mix, zucchini, blueberries, cucumbers, tomatoes, and eggplant
early September share: beans, melon, beets, pears, tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, and sweet peppers
