Our Farm Share season runs from the beginning of June through mid-October, with all deliveries on Thursdays. Subscribing to our membership program provides you with 20 weeks of a well balanced assortment of seasonal vegetables and herbs. Our focus is on seasonal eating, cooking, and getting to know your farm.

Seasonal eating is always the focus of farm shares - June and July the focus is on greens and salad fixings. July - September we see peak summer veggies like summer squash & tomatoes and September - October we roll into fall crops like winter squash and roots.

We’ve added the flexibility of customization to our shares. This means each week you can login to see the farmers choice share and make adjustments. You can deselect items and swap or just get fewer items that week.

 

Full Season Pricing

Medium Share - $640

Petite Share - $420

Flex Share - $200

Market Share - $250

Scroll through this page for information, pictures of shares to help you decide which share option is right for you. List of locations are on the next page.

About the Share Types

Medium Share Our main share, generally 8 vegetable items per share. About a small/medium grocery bag of vegetables. Great for 1 to 2 people or a family that cooks frequently but still wants to go to the farmers market.

Petite Share With an average of 5 items per box, this gives you fresh vegetables weekly but with less pressure to cook every night.

Flex Share - Sign up for this option by clicking this link. This option is for those that need a little more flexibility week to week. Enjoy ordering and supporting your local farm without the weekly share commitment. Flex shares pre-pay for ordering through out the season. With no pre-set share, if you chose not to order there’s no box delivery. To be able to place orders you do need to pre-load your account. We suggest $100 - $200 so you have a rolling balance through the season.

Market Share For Spring Green farmers market shoppers. Great for those who enjoy their weekly farm produce but want the flexibly of choosing their vegetables or can’t make it every week. This is a free choice share of our weekly offerings at market. By investing in the farm in the early season you are helping your local farmers! While the market share acts as a “credit” at market it is your responsibility to utilize your market share. Balances left at the end of the year are not refunded. Note market share can not be used towards Flower purchases. Sign up through this link

Exchange Share We have opportunities for members to volunteer their time on the farm in exchange for a Farm Share. It’s a great way to be directly involved in the farm, and really get to know your farmers. Your time on the farm is really important to us. Steven and Elisabeth do all the farm labor and during the week we need an extra set of hands to make the work go faster! Learn more at steadfast-acres.com/exchange-shares

Looking for a Biweekly option? We suggest the Flex Share - there is no preset share like the Medium & Petite so you are in complete control of which week you order, and items you get.

Winter Share - We no longer offer a typical Winter Share, instead we go to more of a typical online store system. Allowing folks to pick and choose their favorite seasonal vegetables. In the early fall and winter we have a nice variety of freshly harvested greens and classic storage crops.

Apple Share - New for this year - we are linking up with Blue Roof Orchard to offer pick up of their apples in tandem at select pick up sites. Their CSA share provides unique varieties of delicious, local, organic apples from August through October.  They offer a variety of delivery schedules and share sizes to suit your needs.  Their CSA program is distinct from ours, so you'll need to enroll separately with them to receive apples. (Blue Roof Orchard is formerly Two Onion Farm)

It’s not just about the vegetables.

We work hard to make eating healthy as accessible as possible. You share includes a weekly newsletter with important information about your share. We work hard to create content for our members that's not just clogging up their inbox. News about the farm, recipes, and information about your share help you to get the most out of your experience. Each share comes with a list and description of the items in the share each week. The better we can communicate with you the more you will understand and enjoy your food, & farm.

Tell me more about Customizing!

We added this feature to farm to better serve our members. We’ve been farming for 9+ years and have been honing our farmers choice shares to balance the farms season and our members eating habits. But we know that everyone is different!

Members still enjoy what is seasonally available but with the added flexibility to swap items, receive fewer items, or skip a week. You can also purchase additional produce above your weekly share value. Or use any farm credit from skipping a week or a vegetable you skipped. You’ll get weekly reminder to login Saturday AM and check the share offerings, and finish adjustments by Sunday evening. We communicate 99.9% by email so be sure to have your account associated with a email you see during weekends & week.

Quick explanation of jargon:

Farm Credit = Make up share. In the past we offered up to 2 make up shares for missed weeks during the season. These were sent as doubled shares and its a lot of food in one go. Farm Credit simplifies the make up share. Instead of having to take on double the produce you can use up credit over a couple of weeks with extra veggies. Reminder that this is still a CSA share and the commitment to the farm. There are no refunds for skip week credit not used nor can it be used towards previous purchases.

Farm credit & Share value: each week our goal is to offer a share that meets or exceeds the averaged (over the 20 weeks) value of the price you paid at sign up. It varies a little week-to-week, season to season but we are pretty consistent. If you choose to skip a week or remove a vegetable item you are credited some of the price of the share value for use the next week. Don’t get too hung up on general value of items or if you have some credit left over. Keep in mind typically over the course of the season your vegetable share value exceeds what you paid in the beginning and this is equal to vegetables that didn’t go to waste in your fridge. It is your responsibility to use that farm credit on a rolling basis. This is still a CSA share, we do not refund un-used credit.

Share additions - Over the season you may want to add more to your share than we are offering. From week to week you can purchase extra vegetables, but this is separate from farm credit. Typically you are billed on a rolling basis or you can pay through your account per purchase.

Medium Share examples from seasons past.

Is a Farm Share subscription right for me?

Thats a great question! Farm shares are Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). And CSA is based on relationship of mutual support and commitment between farmers and members. In return for an annual membership fee to cover the production costs of the farm, CSA members receive a weekly share highlighting the best the farm has to offer each week.  

We find that those who enjoy being part of a CSA tend to:

  • Be passionate about where their food comes from

  • Want fresh high quality produce

  • Enjoy cooking

  • Are flexible

  • Interested in learning about different vegetables

  • Want to learn new recipes

  • Adventurous cooks & eaters

  • Schedule that allows them to pick up shares weekly

  • Want their family to eat organic produce

  • Comfortable with using the computer & internet

CSA is a commitment! We work hard to produce delicious produce that's accessible with information to help you. On your end its your responsibility to use the resources available to you to use your share. And it requires some of your time. Not just to pick up your share, but willingness to cook or even freeze some of the farms bounty.

Frequently Asked Questions:

  • The most common question we get! You can opt for a “skip week” and you will be credited that weeks share value to your account. It is then your responsibility to use that farm credit. You can also send a friend/co-worker/spouse to pick up your share. You do need to give them a quick rundown on how to pick up the share to avoid confusion at pick up (GRAB THE BOX WITH THE RIGHT NAME). Finally if you don’t like any of those options you can request that your produce be donated that week - who it is donated to will be at the farmers discretion.

  • We realize that from week to week or season to season your veggie needs will change. That’s why you can carry over a balance of up to $50. If you need a vacation or skip week you’ll be credited to you account. It is the members responsibility to use that balance on a rolling basis.

  • Nope! You can opt to have the farmer choice box all season. It’s up to you.

  • Pick up your shares in the allotted pick up window and day. Most sites have limited to no space to hold shares over night. Most shares not claimed are donated by Friday. If something comes up please contact us or your site ASAP so we can make arrangements.

    Read your emails. We send reminder emails on Thursdays as shares are delivered and a newsletter on Saturday. Both contain pertinent information about the share, farm and pick up reminders.

    Email filters - make sure you are receiving our emails in your inbox and not your spam box.

    The green boxes stay on site, we have a tutorial on how to open them carefully and not damage the boxes.

    Review your bounty list that comes in the box and your newsletter. We include information about the vegetables that week and how to store.

    Enjoy your veggies!

  • As a FairShare Coalition farm we are able to participate in Partner Shares, Some Health Insurance Rebates, as well as processing of SNAP benefits. Please visit https://www.csacoalition.org/partner-shares/ for more information

    Partner share members sign up, for weekly box shares, sign up via same sign up page. There will be a generated email that you can use for partner shares. If you have more questions send us an email. (farmers@steadfast-acres.com)

    Also consider our exchange shares - exchange of your time weekly helping at the farm in exchange for a share. More details https://www.steadfast-acres.com/exchange-share

    Payment options: For weekly box shares when you sign up there are several options. Pay in full, 3 payment plan, and online bank pay (bank generated check), send an initial deposit.

  • The Farm share typically starts the first week full week of June and runs through the third week of October. These dates adjust every year depending how the calendar falls.

  • We no longer offer a traditional Winter (Nov. & Dec.) share. We now offer a winter online store that’s loaded with a great variety of storage crops and winter greens. We have found this gives folks more of what they want from winter veggies and less waste.

Shared Risk & Reward - Community Supported Agriculture

It’s a relationship between our farm and you as our customer. Rather than simply purchasing food from grocery stores or multiple farms, our customers become “members” of the farm.

It is also creates a direct link between the community and local farmers. The payment in the early season helps your farmers directly with the bulk of the seasonal expenses, ex. Seed purchase. And reduce the need for time consuming marketing that takes farmer off farm during the all important harvest season. This allows the farmer more time on farm, growing high quality food. In return the farmers deliver fresh organic produce grown on the farm.  

CSA & Shared Risk:  Members share in the risks of production during the season as your farmers and farm crew work to create food from the soil. As with all years, it will be a banner year for certain crops and terrible for others. As farmers we try to create a balance between the unknowns of what nature throws at us and the science, knowledge, and resources that are available to us as organic farmers. Through diversity of crops and good planning our aim is to provide you with a beautiful sampling of the seasons