2026 has been a tumultuous time for food. You and your household may be searching for ways to reliably source produce that allow you to vet where it came from and how it was farmed.
CSA – Community Supported Agriculture – has long been beloved as the best way to get your food directly from your farmer. It’s a reliable weekly delivery of your choice of produce, harvested to order, that can be traced back to the very field it was planted in and the farmer who planted it.
It’s understandable, though, that a CSA share would be intimidating to someone who’s never had one. It may look like a lot of produce to work through. It may feel like a big commitment. (If you’re just now stumbling across the concept of CSA, see our introduction to CSA).
For the CSA-curious: if you’re looking for the best time to try out your very first CSA Share, the time is here. Fall is your season.
Why Should You Start Your First CSA in the Fall?
For one, the harvest season is shorter.
It may help you get started if the number of weeks you’ll receive a weekly share is only half the number of weeks in the Summer season.
Our Summer CSA runs for an entire 20 weeks. Our Fall CSA runs for just 10.
The shorter duration makes for a smaller up-front financial commitment, and fewer overall weekly shares, while still taking home a large and diverse selection of produce! Bonus: the 10-week duration is much more forgiving if you discover that CSA isn’t for you.
The flavors are some of the best of the year.
While Summer takes home the gold for sheer variety, Fall offers truly iconic flavors that are sure to please a crowd. Think sweet potatoes, gold potatoes, fall squashes, spinach, cabbage, garlic, onions, carrots, salad lettuces, along with some end-of-summer crops like green beans, sweet peppers, and more.
Eating seasonally is a really valuable way to connect with the land and its time of year. Doing so via a CSA gets you plenty of high-quality, local foods for creating meaningful fall meals, entertaining guests, and cooking for the holidays.
It’s easier to access certified-organic products.
You’ll receive home delivery or local pickup of your choice of USDA-certified organic products. This can include more than just vegetables! Each week, you’ll have the option to browse and add items from our organic eggs, organic & pasture-raised meats, locally baked breads, fair trade coffees, and other pantry items! You can trust in the traceability of each product because… well, you know us already!
We love to speak on our organic practices, our annual third-party inspections (certified each year, consecutively since 2000), and our commitment to proper food handling practices and animal welfare. Should you ever have a question, our phone line and email inbox are open to you.
Save yourself the trip to the supermarket, comparing organic products that might not even mention the farm they’re from.
Discover eating locally (if you haven’t already).
Prioritize your intake of healthy, wholesome foods grown within a 1.5-hour drive of where you live. That difference in flavor? It’s the taste of nutrients being preserved, instead of lost in hundreds of miles of transit.
Our CSA service area extends to ~70 miles at its farthest point. Comparatively, it’s not unusual for produce at most grocery stores to have traveled more than 1,500 miles to reach its final point of sale.
Feel good about your decision.
If you already shop at the farmers market because you believe in local businesses and want to see them thrive, a CSA is an extra effective way to do that. The CSA model allows farms (small businesses that need support and investment) to connect with customers who want to eat food that makes them feel good. Those customers then have the opportunity to invest directly into their farm. Just like that, both needs are met via the CSA model.
And as we head into colder seasons, a CSA subscription will do more to support your local family farm than you might realize. Production naturally scales back with freeze, frost, and even snow that come around in the late Fall of the year. While our small business still grows produce year-round, we plant certain crops are just for our CSA membership, so we need those members to invest in the costs of their own food production. It’s a win for everyone!
Sound like a good time?
Our Fall season officially kicks off the week of October 5th. Sign up by then to get all 10 weeks. If you have to join later for some reason, you’ll only pay for the remaining weeks you participate.
We would genuinely love to have you.