Description
The 2023 Program is now full! We are taking deposits for the 2024 season. Full 2024 share details and options won’t be available until the winter, but you can expect it to be similar to 2023, which is outlined below.
We are now accepting signups for the 2023 CSA season! Whether you are a veteran veggie fanatic or looking to try CSA for the first time, you can sign up or renew your membership by adding this item to your cart, here on our online store. $25 reserves your spot, with full details and options now live on the CSA Details Page.
The 2023 CSA program includes 25 shares from May 3– October 25, with 1 week of vacation in the middle (Aug. 2). Pickup is either in Forest (Wednesdays 3-6PM), the Boonsboro Rd Farm Truck (Wednesdays 4:30-5:30PM), Scratch Pasta Co. on Bedford Ave (Wednesdays 4-5PM) or the Lynchburg Community Market (Thursdays 7AM-12PM).
Before joining the CSA, please make sure you understand the program by reading the CSA Information Page.
In 2022 our CSA filled up, so make sure to reserve your spot! Prices below do not include Virginia sales tax.
Vegetable Share
Designed to provide a good variety of produce to a family of 4-5, though 2 vegetable enthusiasts could eat it up on their own. Includes 6-12 seasonal vegetables. You can expect to receive lots of greens in the spring and fall, and lots of tomatoes, peppers, and squash in the summer. Salad greens will be very consistent the entire season. Most shares include: an herb bunch, a salad green, a cooking green, a storage crop (i.e. onions, potatoes, winter squash), a root vegetable (i.e. radishes, carrots, beets, turnips), and variety of summer fruits (i.e. tomatoes, squash, beans, peas, okra, eggplant). We often will have a choice between two items (ex: parsley OR cilantro, kale OR Swiss chard), though this is on a first-come-first-serve basis and we cannot guarantee your first pick. Though you will not ever receive the exact same bag of vegetables in two consecutive weeks, we try to have some consistency so that members know what to expect and aren’t stuck with just unusual items they don’t know how to cook. $28 per week.
Bread Share
Members receive one loaf of bread (or bread item like packs of pita, bagels, pizza crust etc.) each week, baker’s choice. Our bread is made by hand using sourdough and a wood-fired oven. We source flour exclusively from Deep Roots Milling, who use a water-powered stone mill to grind regionally-grown grains.
Other ingredients are organic, locally sourced, or home-grown whenever possible. To give you an idea of what to expect, check out the “Bread” section of our online store. The bread share offering will rotate through almost the entire list at $8 per week, significantly lower than our retail price!
Flower Share
We are raising the bar on our flowers this year and hope you will consider bringing natural beauty into your home or business each week. We love growing flowers for their beauty but also to add diversity, habitat, soil carbon, and most importantly pollinator food to our farm ecosystem. We make Farm Bouquets, which are rustic yet bright and elegant! See bouquet photos here. Cost: $12/week.
Restoration Acres Farm Pastured Meat Share
We love connecting with this farm which does a wonderful job producing healthy and delicious pasture-raised animal products. We have eaten for an entire week from one of their chickens, which are full of flavor and nutrients and make a delicious broth. This will be their third year as part of the CSA, check out their website for more information. NEW this year is a rotation in your share between chicken and one of their sausage products! We hope this change will provide your family with more diversity in their diet. Chickens and pigs are raised on pasture and fed non-GMO feed and moved daily to fresh grass. Cost: $475 for a total of 13 whole chickens averaging around 4.5 lbs as well as 24 links and bulk sausage (bundled together). The meat share will alternate weekly between chicken and sausage.
Egg Share
These eggs are laid by chickens raised on rich pasture and fed a non-GMO feed in addition to their foraged food. You can learn more about them here. Cost: $175 for one dozen eggs per week.
