How It Works
Winter Share is a 20 week long season, beginning in mid-late November and wrapping up by the end of April. Pickup times are flexible – Members can come pick up 10 times during the season. We break up the season into 2 week long pick-up windows, and encourage members to set a schedule for themselves ahead of time, coming every other week. However, you can come any time on any day during each bi-weekly pick up window as your schedule and driving conditions permit.
The share will be distributed out of the walk-in cooler attached to our CSA barn, which keeps storage veggies snug and cozy through the winter. The winter squash, sweet potatoes and some garlic will come as a one-time initial distribution in early November, for you to store in your own home (they do better in a cool closet than in a high humidity cooler) and the rest will be available here at your convienence throughout the season.
The WINTER share is comprised of our own storage vegetables as well as storage crops from other local organic farms.
These distributions will genereally be comprised of:
Potatoes (variety of types)
Onions (yellow and red when available)
Beets
Carrots
Parsnips
Rutabaga
Watermelon Radish
Daikon Radish
Turnips
Celeriac
Cabbage
Garlic
Kale or other cooking green
Salad greens
Because we are not exclusively relying on our own crops, we will not have to cap our membership size - hooray! We know so many of you have wished to get a winter share in the past, only to discover we had already sold out of spots.
You asked and we listened - More GREENS!
LARGE & SMALL shares ALL receive the following at EACH of their 10 pickups:
1 big bag of salad greens, 2 bunches of cooking greens, and garlic
Large Winter Share :
12 pounds each pick-up (120 pounds total) of storage vegetables, plus salad greens and bunched greens.
Initial 30 pound mix of winter squash / sweet potatoes (1 bushel box) and 1.5 pounds of garlic, to be stored st home.
Sustainer, $625 - Standard, $500 - Low Income, $440
Half Winter Share:
6 pounds each pick up (60 pounds total) of storage vegetables, plus salad greens and bunched greens.
15 pound mix of winter squash and sweet potatoes (1/2 bushel box) and 3/4 pounds of garlic, to be stored at home.
Sustainer, $410 - Standard, $340 - Low Income, $290
Pricing
We are to committed to providing transparency to our members, and work towards pricing that reliably covers our costs each year. In considering ways to sustainably address our budget challenges, we use a tiered model of CSA share pricing, which we explain in more detail here. A initial $100 deposit is required to reserve a share (unless you plan to pay with SNAP/HIP) and payments in full are appreciated.
Please head to our CSA Membership Agreement page before signing up, and check out our Winter Share Instructions page for more information on how the share works!