About Us
The CSA Model - How it works
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For over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.
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Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of "shares" to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Interested consumers purchase a share (aka a "membership" or a "subscription") and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season.
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This arrangement creates several rewards for both the farmer and the consumer. In brief: The farmer has secured funds prior to the growing season and can crop plan accordingly and gets to know its members. The members get fresh, seasonal access to a wide variety of popular and not-so-popular veggies, get to know how and where their food is being grown and become an active part of a local, sustainable food system.
Food Justice
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"Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate, and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers, and animals. People practicing food justice leads to a strong local food system, self-reliant communities, and a healthy environment." -justfood.org
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As small-scale organic farmers we know too well that access to healthy, local food ends up being a privilege that many cannot afford. Food-insecure families must sometimes decide between rent and car payments or healthy food. Getting real food to everyone is crucial if we are to make food produced ecologically, in restorative ways and distributed locally, a viable alternative to our current food system.
We believe fresh, nutrient-dense food that fosters local community, should be accessible to all.
Worker Cooperative
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A worker cooperative is a cooperative owned and
self-managed by its workers. The benefits of organizing our enterprise in this manner is that, at a structural level, it promotes egalitarianism and inclusive-decision-making.
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It inspires us to practice important skills in this regard and offers a tangible way for members to earn equity into the cooperative to promote long-term planning and foresight. In other words we are committed to working in a non-hierarchical and egalitarian environment.