Posts Tagged: shared harvest csa


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Oct 09

Winter CSAs: It’s a buyer’s market

Sort of.

It seems like kind of a huge and extraordinary situation that we mindful eaters in the Boston area have found ourselves in. As all the color and life and fresh local veggies are siphoned from the world, a handful of regional farms have announced new ventures to keep us eating well through the winter. There are now four, at least by our count, ways to extend your CSAs until early spring 2010.

We’ve mentioned Shared Harvest CSA before: the multi-farm CSA that drops off once a month for three months or two, depending on which size you choose. We’ve also written about Enterprise Farm’s year-round operations.

But here’s the news: Red Fire Farm and Stillman’s are also offering shares. Some details:

Stillman’s: Three Saturday pickups, two in November, one in December. Cost: $150, limited to 100 members. Jamaica Plain pickup only.

Red Fire: Dropoffs every two weeks in January, February and March, all at the Metro Pedal Power headquarters in Union Square. (You can also pay a little extra and the bike peeps will deliver it straight to your place.) Cost: $240. Egg shares available too: $35 per dozen/each distribution.

We know for certain there are still a couple of slots available for Shared Harvest. We got our first load from that share over the weekend — 60 lbs of food. Plus we got a dozen eggs and some cheese from Fiore di Nonno. And Enterprise’s enrollment is seemingly infinite and open: You can sign up now or in the middle of February; whenever, and they’ll pro-rate your order.

Are we missing any other shares? Do tell us. We’re trying to build out a whole Winter CSA page.