COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
‘CSA’ FARMSHARE PROGRAM
We are planning to offer a CSA program at Glen Cove Child Day Care Center this year! Please read below to learn more about what the program entails, and then fill out the form if you are interested in learning more, signing up, or potentially getting a subsidized share in the program.
24 WEEK PROGRAM | June 4th - NOV 12th
FULL & PARTIAL VEGGIE SHARES | ADD ON SHARES
PAYMENT PLANS WITH SIGNUP BEFORE MARCH 1st!
HOW A CSA WORKS
BENEFITS FOR YOU
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Signing up for the CSA is an investment in your health for the whole year ahead. The decision has been made and you will eat more fresh healthy meals because of it.
Vegetables grown closer to you will be fresher and higher nutrient density since they haven’t been shipped across the county.
We teach you how to prep/store and cook healthy simple recipes featuring the seasonal produce each week. You will start to cook with the seasons which is the healthiest way to eat!
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The CSA takes the middle man out, so you save $ by purchasing direct from the farm. You will save around 20-30% (greater savings for full share) off retail pricing on the veggies you recieve. It is even less expensive than the grocery store organic veggies from California.
Members enjoy 10% off additional purchases at the farm stand or markets.
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Forge a real connection with your food and your farmer by getting it directly from the source!
Visit the farm for our annual CSA farm tour and tasting day in May ! Learn about the farm and see it first hand.
Connect with your community at the pickup sites, share recipes and tips. Share extra food with your neighbor.
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CSA’s are notorious for having new and different items that you must learn about and figure out what to do with! Through the guidance of our newsletters and resources (instagram story cooking tutorials) you will learn new veggies and LOVE them. Most people wonder how they went so long without knowing certain veggies exist!
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Convenient pickup locations at your workplace, community centers and in your local Long Island region. Pickup all your veggies and add on shares in one place to avoid going to the grocery store so frequently
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Partial & Full sized shares to accommodate household size & veggie consumption.
Add on shares Fruit & Cheese from our partner farms.
Payment plans to break up the payment so you don’t have to invest a large amount of $ at one time.
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When you sign up for your CSA in the winter, you are putting money directly into growing your food via seeds, fertilizer, soil, labor, and overhead to run the business when we are not growing / selling. This is a game changer for us, as it reduced our need to take out high interest loans.
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When we know the number of CSA members by May, we can then plan how much to grow for you! There is little waste this way, and the risk of growing and not selling the veggies is lessened = less food waste. This is extremely helpful for farmers.
Being able to give what is in season and what we have allows us to work around crop failures and weather events that might create a shortage. Every year you get different items, but the seasonality of certain veggies remains consistent.
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The CSA at its core, removes the middle man so that the FARMER sells directly and delivers direct to YOU. This is radical and rare, and is why the program puts more $ in the farmer’s pocket while keeping the cost below retail for you! Makes you realize how much of the $ you spend in the store goes to the distributors / vegetable brokers.
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The CSA allows us to deliver and serve many more communities on Long Island and in Brooklyn beyond just our local North Fork. This gives more people on the island a chance to support local farms and have access to fresh organic produce. We can feed more people without having to go to a market in every town.
BENEFITS FOR FARMER
A CSA is a relationship. Between you, your food and your farmer. The commitment is strong and the connection is real. In the landscape of today’s corporate food system that is failing you and your farmers, the CSA model is a radical act of food sovereignty. Being a part of the CSA program puts your hard earned dollars back into the local long island economy and community, ensuring that small family run farms here with restorative agriculture principles survive and continue into future generations.
VEGETABLE AND ADD ON SHARES OFFERED THIS YEAR
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PARTIAL SHARE
$690 for 24 week season
6-7 TEMS PER WEEK
You pay equivalent of $28.75 per week for $35-45 per week in retail value (~25% savings)
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FULL SHARE
$925 for 24 week season
9-10 items per week
You pay equivalent of $38.50 per week for $48-60 per week in retail value (~30% savings)
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FRUIT SHARE
$180 for 18 week program
3lbs of stone fruit (apples, peaches, pears, plums)
You pay equivalent of $10 per week for $12 in fruit (~20% savings)
