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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a collaboration between farmers and their customers to create a sustainable, season-long produce partnership, where consumers pay farmers in advance for growing their food. The pre-season income helps the farm cover the upfront costs of the growing season (seeds, supplies, labor, etc.) before the harvest begins in early summer.

Your weekly box of our fresh-picked veggies will contain a delicious selection from Trim Pines Farm's gardens through the harvest season. The 20-week CSA share pick-ups begin, weather-dependent, mid-June and continue through mid-October.

Our shares come in full and half sizes. The share amounts may be smaller in the beginning of the season, while peak harvest will include a great variety and quantity of vegetables and fruit - at times plenty to share with friends, or preserve for post-season enjoyment.

Full share is $600. This share accommodates a family that enjoys vegetables with every meal; a couple whose diet is heavily reliant on veggies; or an individual juicing daily and eating only veggies. At peak season, this may be well over a bushel per week.

Half share is $325. This share accommodates an individual or couple who generously adds veggies to every meal, but doesn’t make them the meal itself, or the family maintaining nutrient diversity through assorted veggies in the weekly meal plan. Our goal is a half-bushel at peak season. In our first year we exceeded this several times!         

Pickup The pick-up location is at Trim Pines on Thursdays from 3pm to 7pm.

Ready to join? Check out our two signup options here!

Some of our goals for 2012:

We're excited at the prospect of expanding our greens selection as our membership grows. It's difficult to provide greens to our farm stand customers. But as a CSA crop, we can provide more fresh greens like kale, lettuce, spinach and more.

We want to make more information available to you, the members, about preserving and storing your produce. Some of the veggies in our program are very easy to freeze. At time of writing we're enjoying tomato sauces, bell peppers and squash puree from our harvests, among others.

Earlier harvests of some of our most popular crops, like bell peppers. The more our membership grows, the better prepared we can be with early planting of things that seem to take forever to mature, and crops that are best planted the previous autumn like garlic.

Coming soon: Online membership subscription.

A sampling of how the 2011 season progressed:

Week 2                               Week 8                                     Week 19