Joining the CSA -2009 Already Full for the Season-thank you. Sign up begins in early February. Check on space in our CSA by contacting garden@communityhomestead.org

When you become a CSA customer you are supporting a beautiful healthy garden, orchard, bakery and farm that developmentally challenged people have pride in tending with friends, a place that is therapeutic for body and soul. And you get wonderful, fresh delicious produce, Good deal!

To register contact garden@communityhomestead.org and ask for a registration form to be sent to your mailing address.

Community Supported Agriculture is a locally based, food distribution approach that creates a relationship between people growing healthy fresh food and people wanting to eat it.

The customer registers for the season and then receives a box of vegetables and herbs every week from early June (aprox!) until end of October (aprox!). Customers pick up from a site near them. We offer a choice of box sizes:

Couples box (feeds 2 adults 1 small child) $420

or Family box (feeds 2 adults 2-4 children) $520

You can share a box by signing up together, splitting the payment and the box  contents yourselves.

Online customers: if you do not want the vegetables but only want the supplemental items, register for an annual membership of $15. Your items will be delivered to a site of your choice below.

Add to your box

We also have beef, pork, chicken, raspberries, cookies, muffins, bread, coffee, eggs, cards and jam seasonally. We also have selection of dairy free, wheat free, gluten free, baked goods. When you sign up you receive automatic access to our weekly shopping page. We remind you weekly by email and you visit us online to order any amount you want (subject to availability). We deliver right along with your weekly box.

Deliveries

We deliver to the following sites on Wednesdays:

Shoreview,

Humboldt Ave and Nicollet Ave in Minneapolis,

Lincoln Ave in St Paul,

Minnesota Waldorf School on Co Rd B in Maplewood

Stillwater,

and here at the farm in Osceola

Pick up your produce as early as you can to ensure freshness. Most sites allow you to pick up through the evening.

A word about organics:

Our garden and orchard is certified organic by MOSA (Midwest Organic Services) This is a rigorous standard and we pay for ensuring this quality for you. Our bakery uses organic ingredients wherever possible and these are clearly listed on the product label. Jams use organically certified fruit and sugar. Our meat is not certified although it is raised with plenty of grazing, no antibiotics or hormones (of course) and organic feed. Our meat is simply too small an operation to pay for a certified organic butcher. Chickens are kept in large rotational runs with access to a barn but they do not "run free".Our problem is that the fox and raccoons do run free. By the way, the eggs are terrific!