What is a CSA? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a collaboration between farmers and their customers to provide the year-round cash flow required to plant the fields each spring, and to create an intimate, season-long relationship between the farm and its customers. In this model of farming the consumer enters into a direct and mutually beneficial relationship with the farmer and other members of the CSA. Members pay in advance (at a rate below our stand prices) for a season's worth of fresh, sustainably grown produce. Your preseason investment as a CSA member helps cover all of the upfront costs of the growing season (seeds, supplies, labor, etc.) before the harvest of fresh, home-grown produce begins in early summer. The farmers, having identified a market before the season even begins, can focus on growing great crops without having to scramble to find places to sell them during the busy season.
Drumlin Farm offers two distinct CSA programs, one in the summer and one in the winter. Members who purchase a share receive a variety of naturally-grown Drumlin Farm vegetables on scheduled pick-up dates.
Our 2008-09 Winter CSA is currently full and underway. If you are interested in signing up for 2009-10, please email Matt Celona at mcelona@massaudubon.org in September 2009. We will place you on our waitlist and contact you when spaces open up. Shares are offered to last year's Winter CSA members first, then to Summer CSA members and then to our waitlist.
Summer Share Updates
- February 9, 2009
Our 2009 Summer CSA is full. To be put on our waitlist for Summer 2010, please email Matt Celona at mcelona@massaudubon.org.
