What Is A Community Supported Agriculture Program (CSA)?
Community Supported Agriculture is a local community supporting local agriculture. A local farm offers prepaid subscriptions or shares for food produced on the farm. For us, that means chemical free vegetables, organic meat and eggs. From our farm, you can purchase a share of vegetables, meat, and/or eggs. The community wins because you receive high quality food grown closer to home. The food is fresh and ripe and not transported long distances to reach your table. This means higher quality food for you and less fuel spent getting it to you. The farm wins because prepaid subscriptions help reduce the risk of farming. The farm AND the share holder ride out the season together instead of the farmer carrying all the risk. In ideal growing years, your vegetable box will be fuller but when the weather doesn’t cooperate, crops can be damaged and your box may not receive as much of that particular food. No money is refunded in leaner years and no additional money is paid by the shareholder wh
