What is a CSA, and is Cider Hill Farm involved with any?
CSA is short for Community Supported Agriculture and is certainly a very popular concept these days. Basically, you prepay for a season’s share of fruits and vegetables (usually about $600) and take your share of the harvest from a weekly pickup at the farm for 20 to 25 weeks. This gives the farmer starting capital, and brings you into a relationship of risk when it is a true model CSA. There a many variations to the original model, and many local farms are developing CSA’s of their own. Cider Hill Farm supports 3 CSA’s at this time, but we do not host one. We just don’t know why this would make sense for customer when you can be part of our community by coming in any day of the week and buying exactly what you need. They do work well for smaller start up farms.
