Community Supported Agriculture - Sign Up Time!
Here are a few of the area farms that are offering CSA sign ups right now. If you are a farm and would like us to add your information to this list, please contact us.
Apple Creek Farm (Bowdoinham)
Market Share CSA - The program is modeled after a traditional CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program where the farmers receive payment upfront in return for a share of the harvest throughout the season. Designed to share the risks of farming with our local community, your purchase of a share helps to offset the up front costs of raising the healthy, organic animals destined to feed you and your family. It’s easy to join and to start using your pre-loaded card to purchase farm products. You can refill your card as needed, the share can be used for any of our products and your only obligation is to use up your balance by December 31st.
Dandelion Spring Farm (Bowdoinham)
Dandelion Debit Card: Have us create a debit card for you! We'll hold it on file and you are welcome to use it any time at the farmers' market or where ever we've popped up! Purchase in increments of $100 (simply order multiple of this item to get to the value that works for your family.) Card is good for all future purchases (it is available starting the week following purchase). Card is good for all farm products offered at our farm stands. Card does not expire. Food Donation: One of the most rewarding and challenging moments of my Saturday is delivering food to Preble St. in Portland. I want to continue to do this, and bring them more food every week. Please help us do so by adding value (which we translate into product) to our deliveries. October CSA: Embracing the fall bounty, change of seasons, and preparing for winter ahead, we're offering a 5 week mini - CSA share. Winter CSA: This winter of 2020-2021 we are focusing our vegetables on direct sale to you through pre-purchased community supported agriculture (CSA) shares. We do not plan to attend any winter farmers' markets. Dates: 17 weeks, December 1 - April 1,With the week off between Dec. 27- Jan 2. Pickups in Bowdoinham, Portland, and Rockland.
Emily’s Oysters (Bath)
Buy a farm share and participate in Emily's Oysters' fun and unique "community supported aquaculture" (CSA) program! Enjoy the freshest local oysters year round, available delivered right to your home or fresh from any of our local farmer's market locations. Friday oyster deliveries within 25 miles of Freeport or pick up in Bath. Sign up for a CSA or just buy some oysters. CSA runs for 1 year or until you eat up all your oysters.
Goranson Farm (Dresden)
Winter CSA - Once-a-month pick-up of crops that are available November through April. Includes winter storage vegetables (potatoes, beets, carrots, leeks, garlic, onions, parsnips, celeriac, herbs, squash, cabbage, rutabagas and turnips) and fall greens are packed for pick-up once a month, either at the farm or at a location in Boothbay or Portland markets. We feature different potato and squash varieties each month. Also included each month are recipes, storage tips, and a letter from Jan about what’s happening on the farm. *Total share is $300 and runs Nov-Apr. Pricing is prorated for late joiners.
Harvest Tide Organics (Bowdoinham)
Currently Servicing the Following Towns! Contact us for delivery to your workplace or community space along our route! Auburn, Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Lewiston, North Yarmouth, Portland, South Portland, Topsham, and Westbrook. Autumn Vegetable Share - Enjoy the best of fresh autumn vegetables, delivered to your workplace or community location. The fall share consists of four deliveries, delivered bi-weekly from early October to the week before Thanksgiving (Oct 4 - Nov 21) and include all the veggies that thrive in Maine's fall, including late summer veggies, storage veggies, and hardy leafy greens. Cost is $36.00 per delivery which includes enough veggies to last a family about 2 weeks. The last share delivery, just before Thanksgiving is a holiday oriented share, with many of the veggies you need for the holiday.
Little Ridge Farm (Lisbon Falls)
Thanksgiving, December and Winter Shares available. Learn more. This list will provide an idea of when and what items are available. Recipes and preservation tips are provided each week via the Happy Farmer Farm Blog and Facebook.
Milkweed Farm (Brunswick)
Three 6 week Late Fall-Early Winter options: Farmstead Share, Vegan Farmstead Share, and Medicinal Herb Share. Farmstead Share Application. Vegan Share Application. Medicinal Herb Share Application. The Farmstead share include: fall greens, storage vegetables, (carrots, onions, shallots, beets, winter squash, and potatoes), apples, pasture raised eggs, pasture raised chicken, a selection of cheeses from local Maine creameries, yogurt, farmstead granola, seeds saved from our own crops, and medicinal herb preparations for immune support such as Elderberry Syrup, Thyme Tincture, Fire Tonic, and Sacred Basil Honey. The Vegan Share is similar to the Farmstead share but excludes chicken, eggs and dairy. The Medicinal Share includes: one medicinal preparations each week for 6 weeks. For more information about each share see the link in the farm name and contact milkweedfarm.@gmail.com.
Scratch Farm (Bowdoin)
Farm Boxes - We offer a different Full Plate Farm Box every month from August through February. Each has it’s own name (e.g. the Summer Picnic Box). They are jam-packed full of fresh organic produce, eggs, whole wheat pita bread and an assortment of pickles, jam, sauerkraut, hot sauce, applesauce, frozen vegetables, cornmeal, tea mixes and much more! We prepare everything from scratch and we grow the majority of the food. All of our veggies, herbs and fruit are certified organic. We also offer à la carte options for those who want less, or more, than a full farm box. Commit to six monthly farm boxes now for a discount! Click here for details. SNAP accepted and Maine Harvest Bucks Program offered.
Stonecipher Farm (Bowdoin)
Fall CSA: Late Oct- Late December. A full share has from 12 to 14 items of varying value, and the half share has 6 to 9 items, depending on value. You will see over 30 different items in your share over the course of the CSA. We work hard to keep it interesting… but not too interesting! A "full share" is $30 value per week, with 20% savings from retail. A "half share" is $20 value per week, with 20% savings from retail. Portland, Bowdoinham and Rockport pick up sites. Email for more information and to sign up.
Tender Soles Farm (Richmond)
Veggie and Fruit Shares - Sign up now for 9 weeks of organic local food! Runs October 21st - December 16th. Receive $25 of our organic produce every week for 9 weeks. Curb Side style pick ups at all locations. Pick-ups are every week at 3 locations: Our Farm Stand in Richmond (Wednesdays 4-6 pm) $225; Topsham (Tuesdays 4-6 pm) $250 (includes *$25 delivery fee); Bath (Tuesdays 4-7 pm) $250 (includes *$25 delivery fee). * Richmond School and Town Staff receive $10 off shares! *Customers with SNAP benefits qualify for 1/2 priced shares! Call or email us to learn more! (207) 620-0030; tendersolesfarm@gmail.com.
Two Coves Farm (Harpswell)
A meat CSA includes pasture raised beef, lamb, pork and poultry. Animals are sold by the whole, half, quarter as well as various assortment packages. We have an ordering page on our website as well as an online order form. Both of these options allow customers to place a deposit on the meat they would like us to produce for them in the season. In the fall we process orders, get cut instructions from customers, and then offer delivery or pick up when the order is complete. At that point we figure and collect a final balance.
Whatley Farm (Topsham)
1) Market-Debit CSA - A flexible CSA program which you can customize to suit your needs. Sign up online any time, get a bonus based on the dollar amount you sign up for, use your CSA account until you run out of money, and then sign up again. Everything that we sell is eligible for purchase with your CSA balance, and you can check your balance at any time in our ledger at market.
2) SNAP CSA - An option for customers who want to use their SNAP benefits to shop with us. We sell certified organic vegetables, seedlings, edible flowers, duck eggs, and pork. DOUBLE YOUR DOLLARS with Maine Harvest Bucks in our flexible CSA program! It’s really simple: sign up by visiting us at any of our farmers markets, or emailing. Each time you shop with us at market using SNAP/EBT, you will only be charged half of the cost of your fruits and vegetables from our stand. The other half is covered by grant funding from the Maine Harvest Bucks program. You can sign up by sending us your name and phone number, or come to any of our markets. Please email us for a sign-up form!