Community Supported Agriculture :: CSA

SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY WINTER CSA!

Fresh Greens All Winter!

As a member of a Community Supported Agriculture program you boost the heath of the community while nourishing yourself.  You are directly connected to your food source, and help provide a fair wage for a local farmer.  You share the risks and joys of the farming season with the farm. 

We are a woman-owned business committed to:
  • The freshest possible produce you can buy.
  • Growing nutrient dense foods in healthy soils.
  • Growing on a human-scaled, carbon-conscious farm (minimal use of large, fossil-fuel-driven equipment).
  • Growing less common fruits high in antioxidants and minerals.
  • Growing open-pollinated crops and preserving our seed heritage.
  • Raising rare breed livestock.
  • Fruits and vegetables grown without synthetic herbicides, insecticides, fungicides or fertilizers.
  • Biodiversity, including pollinators.
  • Supporting the next generation of farmers through our internship program.
  • Supporting local sustainable economic development.

Eat Well
Each week you’ll enjoy six to ten different crops picked and stored at the height of flavor and freshness:
  • Greens: You’ll get a bag of salad mix,  sprouts, and/or a bouquet of braising greens every week, cut fresh from our winter greenhouse
  • Fruit: Dried apples, fruit preserves, and frozen cider make up our winter fruit offerings.
  • Storage Veggies: You’ll get a rotation of beets, carrots, daikons, garlic, onions, potatoes, squash, and a few other goodies we grow for the winter
  • Other Treats: You can also relish cheese from Happy Hollow Creamery, fresh and dried herbs, flavored vinegar, sprouts, eggs, and occasional pickled products.


How will I get my weekly produce?
We’ll arrange a convenient pick-up site near you in Ashland, Bayfield, Herbster, Iron River, and Washburn.  NEW FOR 2017: We also deliver to Superior/Duluth!  Current pick-up sites include Beaner's Central, Pelican Coffee, Burrito Union, and Park Point.  Every Wednesday your box of fresh produce will be there by 3 p.m. (4:30 in Superior/Duluth) for pick-up.  We’ll provide all the details to you in a pre-season email, after we have finalized our membership.


How It Works

In order to participate in the Winter CSA, you’ll need two coolers (about 38 qts each; please, no jumbo coolers.  We have to get everything into a Toyota Corolla!) labeled with your name.  You’ll return your empty cooler after you pick up your weekly delivery, and we’ll pick it up to fill for the next week.
 
Coolers are important because the produce will be moving in and out of a car and other staging areas in all sorts of winter weather…. We want to avoid frozen greens!
 
The CSA will run from the first week in December, 2017 through the last week of March, 2018.  Seventeen weeks of fresh local produce in the heart of winter!  Deliveries will be on Wednesday every week; we’ll confirm details in late November.
 
We’ll email a short newsletter every week that gives some recipe suggestions, general farm and food news, and CSA logistical announcements, so please provide your email on the sign-up form.

Members share in the rewards of a bountiful harvest but also share in the risk of farming. If harvests are low due to extreme bad weather, for example, there are generally no refunds to members. This concept is called "Shared Risk."  That said, we have never missed shipping a box, and box contents are carefully tracked over the winter so that harvest differences from week to week even out over the season so that shareholders receive an overall abundance of awesome food.

We’ll email a short newsletter every week that gives some recipe suggestions, general farm and food news, and CSA logistical announcements, so please provide your email when you sign up. 

The price for a winter CSA share is $560.00.  (That’s $33 per week.)  Sign up before September 15th!  Available shares are limited.

Make the check payable to Clare Hintz and mail to the address at the top of the screen or you can use the PayPal option below (there is an added $20 fee for processing with this option.)  You are also welcome to send a deposit of $50; the remainder is due by October 15th.
Winter CSA
$580.00 with PayPal fees
Summer CSA 2018
$635.00 with PayPal fees; subtract $20 if you mail a check
Full Year CSA 2017-2018
$1145.00