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 will entitled to either 2 quarts (small share) or 4 quarts (large share) of free strawberries (Free strawberries not offered every year).

All CSA members who sign up by April 1, will qualify for free strawberries in addition to 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 sixteen seasons of Winter Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) programs. Our Winter CSA offers 11 shares in 10 weekly pick-ups. Pick ups 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 one of the following share sizes: half pint share, small share, or 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, brussel sprouts, braising mix, shallots, butternut squash.  You can choose to pick up your weekly share at one of the below locations:

• 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 are not able to 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, bok 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.

In the winter, we offer two months of CSA pick ups, our "Deep Winter CSA", as part of the Clear Brook Farm CSA Program, offered in January and February. Space is limited and is first come, first serve. We offer 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 the yearly calendar. We reserve Sundays as a snow day pick up option. 

Cost: Cost $195 for the 4 pick-ups. 

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