Sauchuk farm is a 100acre diversified vegetable and berry farm located in plympton, massachusetts. Every farm is different and every csa is reflection of that farm and its supporting community. Our csa program creates a community between our farm and people, like you, who supplement the farms budget by purchasing shares of the upcoming harvest. May 18, 2019 peak season offers four convenient pick up locations. Syf is pausing on production farming for csa purposes and will not be offering a csa in 2020. In simplest terms, csa is a partnership between agricultural producers and consumers. How farm farm csa works our farm is not usda certified organic, but we follow all of their guidelines. Csa membership is a unique partnership between the farm and csa members, sharing both the bounty of the farms harvest and some of the risks involved with regional agriculture.
Therefore, by becoming a member of our csa you are supporting the core values and programs of our nonprofit farm and helping to change the way we think about, purchase and eat food. Community supported agriculture, or csa, is a direct mar. Join our community of curious and successful csa farmers. By handling the marketing, packing, selling and delivery efforts, farmers fresh csa puts the farmer back on the farm. Scott sauchuk established the farm in 2002 on the site of the samson homestead that had been farmed since the early eighteenth century. Unlike a simple retail transaction, a csa is a partnership that shares not only the bounty but also the challenges the farmer may experience related to weather, pests and disease. Oct 20, 2019 our family has been a csa member at sauchuk for a couple of years.
A farmers guide to marketing through community supported agriculture csas megan l. Your share is a prepaid card to sauchuk farm, which you can use to purchase anything at the farmstand, pyo strawberries, and pyo blueberries corn maze excluded. Csa subscribers purchase a share in the farm s growing season, in exchange for produce over a set number of weeks of the season. Best freight forwarding software solutions csa software. In exchange for your payment, you will receive a variety box of super fresh and chemicalfree produce once a week for 19 weeks in the main season, with the option to join a 6 week winter extension program. In past years, we have included cookbooks, jams, salsas, and artisan bread. Choice csa is web based software that allows customers of csa farms to choose what will be in their csa box each week. Farm fresh produce our farm fresh produce is available to the public in a variety of ways. Csas offer local residents access to high quality, locally grown fresh product andor meat from local or regional farmers. Shared roots farm is a certified organic vegetable farm serving the greater binghamton and cortland areas with summer and winter csas, farmers market, and sales to local restaurants, stores, and more. Farm stand share is a customizable on demand share an excellent option if you only want apples this year we are pleased to present a full season june november monthly csa program.
The full farm csa is a personally crafted, full diet csa program serving portland, eugene, and corvallis, where members choose how much to contribute as well as which products they get each week to create a wellrounded, seasonal diet all yearround. Before harvest, the software aggregates a harvest list for the farmer as well as prints out order labels for the csa boxes. Oklahoma raised fruit raised as chemical free as possible. Community supported agriculture csa is part of a growing social movement that encourages urban and rural citizens to share responsibility for the land where their food is grown as well as for how their food is produced. Brief history sauchuk farm, llc is a 200acre diversified vegetable and berry farm located in plympton, massachusetts. Harvesthand is a website software platform dedicated to helping farmers grow and manage their community supported agriculture csa memberships. The uk community supported agriculture csa project is a part of the uk college of agriculture, department of horticulture, and is an integral component of the sustainable agriculture sag undergraduate curriculum. Click here for sauchuk s corn maze and pumpkin patch. This is the predominant type of csa and the focus of this publication.
Sylvia dasilva jul, 2009 ive been going to sauchuk farms for a couple of years now, and most recently for fruit. Community supported agriculture csa directory the csa directory lists farm or networkassociation of multiple farms that offer consumers regular usually weekly deliveries of locallygrown farm products during one or more harvest seasons on a subscription or membership basis. Csa payments must be made by electronic check or regular paper check. Dec 01, 2015 download choice csa farm subscription for free. The produce is fresh from the garden usually from that morning. We want to share with you, so you can get better at what you do. Our farm futures csa program solves these problems, while maintaining your connection to the farm and local produce. Sign up for deep harvests farm share program also known as community supported agriculture or csa and receive. Apples, peaches, and cranberries from local farmers.
At the same time, our users also share with us their incredible knowledge on how things work that further enhanced the softwares user friendliness and practicality. Our csa began in 2009 when the organization itself was merely a seed. Farmers can deliver to us in the middle of the week, thus supplementing their saturday markets with a midweek harvest and reducing the amount of wasted produce. Jun 10, 20 stoneledge farm in the foothills of the catskills in new york was an early adopter of the csa trend.
Use our map to locate farmers markets, family farms, farm stands, and upick produce in your neighborhood. A variation on the subscription csa is the multi farm subscription csa, in which farmers from more than one farm provide products to fill the shares. This is a great opportunity for the fruit lover who wants to ensure reliable and economical access to local organic fruit. Communitysupported agriculture shares, commonly called csas, are a way for farmers and consumers to partner to help farms match production to their markets. About us in 2007, scott sauchuk grew the first largescale corn maze in the eastern massachusetts region. The sauchuk farm corn maze is a great place to visit with a group of any kind. We do not take credit cards due to the additional fee to the farm. A diverse farm that offers raw milk, grassfed beef, and pastureraised pork. Our family has been a csa member at sauchuk for a couple of years. In addition to farmfresh produce, all csa shareholders receive a weekly enewsletter with crop updates from our farmers, recipes, produce tips, and. If a formal or informal partnership with another farm is.
This estimate is based upon 4 state farm csa salary reports provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. Deep harvest community supported agriculture csa program are you interested in enjoying 100% organiccertified vegetables, learning how to cook and eat with the seasons, and supporting local farmers. Csa subscribers purchase a share in the farms growing season, in exchange for produce over a set number of weeks of the season. Community supported agriculture csa is a direct market relationship of mutual support and commitment between a local farm and its members in the community. All produce currently grown at our farms will be used. Growing washington is a diversified organic farm located in the heart of the nooksack valley. As farmers ourselves, were passionate about supporting farms with csas to become more profitable using harvesthand csa software, helping communities eat better through the harvesthand community, creating good jobs in rural communities. Communitysupported agriculture csa is a food production and distribution system that directly connects farmers and consumers. All shares are preboxed for quick and convenient pickup and with pickup windows of at least 3 hours, a warner farm csa truly is the easiest way to get the healthiest, farm fresh produce for your family and better yet, at a reasonable price. Our first maze celebrated the tercentennial of plympton, massachusetts, the home of the farm. Each week, well set up a market style display of whats fresh and in season on the farm. To visit the farm outside of these hours, please email to book a tour, service project, retreatevent or to inquire about our intern program or ongoing farm health and wellness workshops.
Start a community supported agriculture share program. In 2007, we started our csa community supported agriculture operation with 100 members, and are currently growing for 350 summer shares and 100 winter shares. Find community supported agriculture csa farms serving middleboro, ma. Sauchuk farm grows 150 acres of vegetables and fruit in plympton, massachusetts. Signup and pay online, increase weekly sales with online shopping, automate to build your farm business harvesthand csa software was built by farmers for farmers. In exchange for your payment, you will receive a variety box of super fresh and chemicalfree produce once a week for 19 weeks in the main season, with the option to. Csa community supported agriculture programs are a relatively new movement in the united states and they strive to create a closer relationship between local farmers and consumers. Sauchuk farm is a 200acre diversified vegetable and berry farm located on route 58. We showcase the best of our fields at over 15 farmers markets in the puget sound. In addition to farm fresh produce, all csa shareholders receive a weekly enewsletter with crop updates from our farmers, recipes, produce tips, and more. Start a group in your neighborhood, community, church or office. Powered by member assembler csa farm member management software. By purchasing a share at powisset farm, csa members support the farm, create community, and have access to fresh, local, and healthy produce.
Please contact us if you would like to be our csa coordinator. Sauchuk farm consists of several different locations open seasonally to the public. Our farmstand is located at 53 palmer road route 58 in plympton, ma. If you use windows vista, windows 7, or windows 8, you may need to open and run csa as an administrator. The csa solutions hub is everything we know about csa farming.
Also, we intend to include our own popcorn and discounted corn maze tickets. Table of contents tips and ideas to build better csa farms. Were a community of 45 farms and we have a 97% retention rate. Use cs connect to download and apply any available software updates for the csa programs for which your firm is licensed. In addition to a full selection of produce, we have jams, jellies, salsas, kettle corn, freshbaked muffins and pies, eggs, maple syrup, and chicken pies. Csa members receive a weekly share of the best our farm has to offer, at a discount over farmers market prices. Harvesthand building local food communities csa software.
Csa community supported agriculture we are currently planning out our crop details for 2020 and will post more details when we have them. School groups preschool, home school, and elementary school students, scout troops, sports teams, church groups, corporate groups and many more seem to flock to us each year. Students help with csa share distribution on campus and at the farm beekeeping is one of the farm classes for the sag apprentices. Csaware is the cream of the crop in csa management software. Scott plants a wide variety of vegetables, some unfamiliar, but that has encouraged us to experiment with cooking and eating. The term csa is also used to refer to an individual farms csa program. Stoneledge farm in the foothills of the catskills in new york was an early adopter of the csa trend. Here, we salute to our csa, cpanywhere and company123 users who have contributed so much to make the software so user friendly, and yet so powerful.
Csa membership commitment i wish to strengthen the local food system in boulder county by becoming a member of the red wagon farm csa. Drumlin farm offers spring, summer, and fall csa programs, each with optional pickyourown pyo addon shares. At the same time, our users also share with us their incredible knowledge on how things work that further enhanced the software s user friendliness and practicality. Across new york city and connecticut, for almost 18 years, the face that many families have associated with their food is deb kavakos, who runs the farm with her husband. Shared roots farm is a certified organic vegetable farm serving the greater binghamton and cortland areas with summer and winter csa s, farmers market, and sales to local restaurants, stores, and more. New this year to our csa is the option of customizable shares. Peak season offers four convenient pick up locations. To do so, rightclick the csa icon and choose run as administrator. A share is purchased by members who visit the farm or local pick up to pick up their share of for their season. The csa directory lists farm or networkassociation of multiple farms that offer consumers regular usually weekly deliveries of locallygrown farm products during one or more harvest seasons on a. Our mission to teach kids how to grow nutritious food that goes from their schoolyard farm to their plate is made possible by the financial support of our csa members.
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