Sign up for weekly helpings
of GARDEN OF EVE ORGANIC PRODUCE!
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Imagine… a weekly selection of the freshest, just-picked organic vegetables, straight from our farm to your table!
2012 Summer Share signups are now OPEN for most sites!
CLICK HERE to see Pricing and SIGN UP for sites with open signups!
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CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT SHARE TYPES: Vegetable, Fruit, Flower & Eggs
WHAT WILL I GET EACH WEEK IN A TYPICAL SHARE? CLICK HERE to see the items we gave in ACTUAL SHARES each year since we started doing CSA, how the types of vegetables you get change through the season, and the annual value!
WHERE IS THE CSA CLOSEST TO ME? CLICK HERE
WHAT TYPES OF VEGETABLES DO YOU GROW?
CLICK HERE to see pictures
CLICK HERE for our harvest chart
WHAT TYPES OF FLOWERS DO YOU GROW?
CLICK HERE to see pictures
HOW DOES IT WORK?
CSA is like a subscription, or a vegetable-of-the-week club. You pay in full for your share before the distributions begin in early June, and in return for your committment to our farm we provide you with just-picked organic produce at a good value, as well as farm trips, news, recipes, and a community of like-minded people to get to know!
CLICK HERE TO READ OUR MEMBER AGREEMENT
2012 SEASON DETAILS
Shares are 24 weeks, except flower shares which will be 20 weeks (ends week of Oct 20).
Wednesday pickups: begin Wed June 6, ends Wed Nov 14 (week before Thanksgiving)
Saturday pickups: begin Sat June 9, ends Sat Nov 17 (weekend before Thanksgiving)
Half-shares will get assigned A or B week and come for a "full" pickup, every other week (instead of getting half the amount, every week).
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2011 A/B WEEK SCHEDULE - 2012 A/B schedule will be posted soon.
If you are not able to make your share pick-up, you are welcome to have a friend pick up your share. No prior notice is required, just tell them to check in under your name.
Full Harvest Vegetable Share
June-Thanksgiving, 24 weeks, includes 7-9 items per week, which is enough vegetables for two large vegetarian meals per week, for a family - or sides for the whole week.
See harvest chart for approximate schedule of vegetables.
The season includes a wide variety of vegetables, however they DO NOT COME ALL AT ONE TIME. It is likely that you will not get tomatoes until August (two months into the CSA!) when they naturally ripen in the Northeast, and no potatoes until around that time as well.
EARLY SUMMER (June-July)
June and July include copious amounts of cooking greens and lettuces, including spinach, bok choi, mizuna, mustard greens, tatsoi, Swiss Chard, kale, and others. Remember the ground is still warming up from the winter till late May; the last frost date in our area is May 5 (this is the date before which nearly ALL PLANTS can be KILLED when planted outside). Other early summer delicacies include snap and snow peas, garlic scapes, scallions, and in late July zucchini, sweet corn, summer squash, and cucumbers,
MID SUMMER (August-Sept)
This is the time that those of us who are seasonal eaters, live for. Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, squashes, potatoes, sweet corn, melons, herbs, basil, onions. We grow dozens of types of tomatoes and 5 kinds of peppers, 3 kinds of eggplant, so the diversity is amazing. The CSA share at this time of the year is bounteous.
FALL (Oct-Nov)
In the fall we have time to focus on harvesting the massive amount of crops we have planted for you, our CSA member! We are bringing in and handing out thousands of pounds of potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, (in a good year) onions, cabbage, garlic, etc. We see a return to the cold-hardy greens as the weather chills, including the kales, and our old friends Swiss Chard and Bok Choi. We try to make the last two pre-Thanksgiving shares everything you'll need for that special dinner, including butternut and other sweet winter squashes, sweet potatoes, potatoes, garlic, collards, and more.
Fruit Share
June - Thanksgiving,24 weeks – Starts out in June with strawberries, then cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, peaches, apricots, plums and pears in July and August, and mainly pears and apples September through November. Fruits are very fresh and flavorful, not organic but grown on our next-door neighbor’s farm using lots of compost and low-spray techniques.
Egg Share
June - Thanksgiving, 24 weeks – Receive a HALF-dozen farm-fresh eggs from our own pastured, free-range hens, fed organic feed and no hormones or antibiotics. If you want a FULL dozen each week, get TWO Egg shares (price is the same, but doubled).
Flower Shares
June - October, 20 weeks – A gorgeous weekly bouquet of fresh-picked flowers, grown organically, different every week. Includes zinnias, snapdragons, sunflowers, black-eyed susans, and much more. CLICK HERE to see some of the different flowers we grow.
"Full Share Combo" is one of all shares every week, at $40 off the total price of the shares if purchased separately.
"Half Share Combo" responds for POPULAR DEMAND for a little bit of everything at a reasonable price. It includes a HALF share of everything (which means one full share, picked up every OTHER week) at $15 off the total price of the shares if purchased separately
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Cook
healthier, more delicious dishes
The share includes more than 40 varieties of vegetables which will challenge you to eat
more fresh foods
Help
the environment
We do not use any
toxic pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers
Support
your local farmers and the local economy
Enjoy farm visits and tours, CSA member potlucks, and a relationship with your farm
