Community Supported Agriculture
WHY JOIN A CSA? 1. To eat healthy fresh seasonal produce straight from the farm at a discounted price.
2. To support a local farm and buy directly from the farmer.
3. To spice up your food experience by trying new vegetables and tastes.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT IN YOUR BOX? Our goal is to provide you with a minimum diversity of 5 different products in your box each week. We prioritize our CSA members as our most important customers and give them our best and our most limited products. Thus, some products that our CSA members get will never make it to market. Every year we listen to our customers comments so that we can provide a diversity of produce that is appealing and exciting. We cannot guarantee what will be in your weekly box as the weather and other growth factors challenge the success of each crop differently each season, however this is what we have had in our boxes in the past (this list is just a example of what we may have): Spring (May through end of June): lots of salad greens and brazing greens (including kale, lettuce, mizuna, arugula, spinach, spicy mustard, pac choy leaves), radishes (french breakfast), fresh cut herbs (parsley, chives, cilantro, dill, and others by choice oregano, thyme), beets and beet greens, leeks, fennel, peas, bunching onions, rhubarb, strawberries Summer (July through September): salad greens and brazing greens (including chard, kale, lettuce, mizuna, arugula, spinach, spicy mustard, pac choy leaves), broccolini, cauliflower, cabbage (green, red, savoy, napa), green beans, bulb onions, cucumbers, zucchini, garlic, fennel, kohlrabi, basil, radishes (french breakfast, icycle), fresh cut herbs (parsley, celery greens chives, cilantro, dill, and others by choice oregano, thyme), beets and beet greens, carrot bunches, fennel, peas, bunching onions, rhubarb, eggplant, green bell peppers, shishito frying peppers, parsnip, tomatoes, potatoes, plums Fall (September through November): lettuce, chard, spinach, beets, carrots, parsnips, garlic, potatoes, green beans, purple and red bell peppers, sweet frying peppers, jalopeno peppers, tomatoes (opportunity for canning tomatoes), eggplant, cuccumbers, onions, leeks, winter squash (kabocha, delicata, hubbard, butternut), jerusalem artichokes, apples WHERE DO YOU PICK UP YOUR WEEKLY BOX? WHEN DOES IT START? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? For 2023 our CSA will be organized by location, please look for details here below. So far we have 3 locations where we will organize share pick-ups. Check out our bi-weekly pick up option at the Farm if you feel like every week would be too much. Locations:
Farm Pick up CSA Preseason: number of pick-up days = 7 Main Season: 22 weeks
Camas Pick up CSA Preseason: no preseason Main Season: duration 18 weeks, falls exactly in line with the number of Camas Farmer's Markets. The last pick up during the last market will include a bonus package of winter storage crops. In the case of market cancellation special arrangements will be made.
You should sign up at least 2 weeks before the CSA season starts, however, we do expect our CSA to fill up as we only have a limited number of shares available, so we suggest signing up early to reserve a share. You can choose the market value of your weekly box by choosing between a small or a large share. The size of the share does not change the diversity in the box, but does change the quantity of produce in the box. You can send a check to Yacolt Mountain Farm and Nursery, LLC 20217 NE Yacolt Mountain Road Yacolt Wa 98675 GET ON OUR E-MAIL LIST |