Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

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While most CSA's give you a pre-selected box of produce once a week (similar to our Winter CSA), our Summer Share program is a "free choice" share which allows you the freedom and flexibility to visit our farm stand any time you choose, and purchase anything we sell at the farm stand during the season, be it plants, Clear Brook Farm organic produce, local cheese, baked goods, fruit, syrup, or anything else you choose. Plus you never need to worry about being away on vacation and missing a pick-up! We will have a "gift card" at the counter with your name and balance on it, and every time you make a purchase it will be deducted from your balance.  By pre-purchasing a summer share you help Clear Brook Farm with spring startup costs including, seed, labor, fuel, and soils. In appreciation for your support of our farm by purchasing a CSA share the value of your purchase will be more than just the monetary value that you have paid. Depending on the size share you purchase and your signup date you will earn extra monetary credit on your card and also you will entitled to either 2 quarts(small share) or 4 quarts (large share) of free  strawberries (Hopefully Pick-your-own if the Covid situation allows for safe picking)

All CSA members who sign up by April 1, will qualify for some free strawberries. Plus extra credit on your CSA card.

• Large Share  Pay By March 10 Your Cost $450 Starting Credit $475 + free 4 quarts of strawberries Pay by April 1, Your Cost $450 Starting Credit $460 + 4 free quarts of strawberries  

• Small Share Pay By March 10 Your Cost $250 Starting Credit $260 + 2 Free quarts of strawberries Pay by April 1, $250 Starting Credit  $255 + Free 2 qts of  Strawberries

We have offered more than fifteen season offering shares in the Clear Brook Farm Winter Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) program. Our Winter CSA offers 11 shares in 10 weekly pick-ups. Pick up starts in early October and end the week before Christmas. We offer three different shares for you to choose from. When signing up you choose on of the following shares to choose from: a half pint share, small share, and a large share. Each share gets a certain amount of produce throughout the winter. A Half Pint share for example could contain: potatoes, spinach, carrots, and shallots. A Small Share: potatoes, spinach, kale, carrots, beets, butternut squash, shallots. The Large (family) Share: potatoes,  spinach, carrots, kale, beets, lettuce, brussels sprouts, braising mix, shallots, butternut squash.  You can also pick up your weekly share at the choice of your location:

• Clear Brook Farm, Shaftsbury, VT: Thursdays 3-5:30pm, Saturdays 10-12pm.
• First Congregational Church, Manchester, VT: Saturdays 10-12pm.
• Battenkill Books, Cambridge, NY: Thursdays 3-5:30pm.

Other Notes:

• If you will miss a pick-up, please let us know by Tuesday of that week so we can plan accordingly. You must fill out the required "Unable to Pick Up This Week" form to let us know when you can not pick up your share. 
• Weekly emails are sent out with the week's veggie list, plus recipes and general info so you stay connected to what is going on around the farm. 
• We offer weekly add-ons such as bread, meats, and dairy for online pre-purchases. More details as we get closer/when you sign up.
• Vegetables we are growing for the Fall/Winter shares: broccoli, cauliflower, fennel, brussel sprouts, collards, kale, pok choi, napa cabbage, green and red cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, garlic, leeks, shallots, onions, spinach, arugula, lettuce, swiss chard, beets, carrots, parsnips, rutabagas, storage radishes, daikon, colored peppers (weather permitting), winter squash,  cilantro and kohlrabi.

We offer two months of CSA pick ups called our"Deep Winter CSA" as part of the Clear Brook Farm CSA Program. Certain years we have produce still in storage that we have decided to offer a limited amount of CSA shares for January and February. Space is limited. First come, first serve. Some of what we will offer will be Spinach, carrots, beets, kale, lettuce, potatoes, onions, cabbage, napa cabbage, garlic, parsnips, winter squash, sweet potatoes and more! We also plan to offer bread, eggs, some cheeses and other meats through our online store.

Other Notes:

This CSA will have pick ups every other Saturday starting at the beginning of January, continuing until the end of February. Dates change based on yearly calendar. We reserve Sundays as a snow day pick up option. 

Cost: Cost $170 for the 4 pick-ups. 

Location: Pickup is at the farm. No satellite locations.
Time: Pick up time is Saturday 10:30AM-12:30PM.