CSA Shares

What is CSA?

CSA is a method of purchasing your produce on a pre-pay basis.  You sign up at the beginning of the growing season, and receive a weekly load of veggies for your family.  The quantity and variety varies throughout the season, giving you a full spectrum of seasonal produce that is grown at the farm.

What comes in a share? How does it work?

Well, the short answer is: Most vegetables you can think of will be part of the share one week or another!  The favorites (tomatoes, carrots, lettuce, corn, broccoli, etc.) will be distributed multiple times, up to about 8 times per season.

Each week, we’ll harvest about 10 different items and distribute them evenly to all CSA members.   Every week will be different, and the varieties will change with the seasons.

Where you can pick up:

• Cambridge: The Democracy Center in Harvard Square

45 Mt. Auburn St
Wednesdays, 4:30-6 pm

• Boston: The NonProfit Center

89 South St Boston
Wednesdays, 3:30 – 5:30 pm

• Northampton/Florence: Cooley Dickinson Hospital

30 Locust St (in the hospital cafeteria)
Thursdays 3:30-5:30

• Clover, please click here to sign up for Clover shares in the Boston area directly with Clover

Share Options:

• Summer Share:  $400

Feeds 2-5 people
20 pickups
June-October

Our full share has the complete spread of veggies and plenty of them!  A typical share includes about 8 different varieties of veggies, herbs, and sometimes fruit or other garden goods. Each week will include about 6-10 pounds of seasonal produce.

• Summer Egg Share: $60 per share

1/2 Dozen eggs per week
Our own heritage breed chickens, free range, organic, cage free, and loving life!
20 pickups
June-October

• Winter Share: $400

Feeds 2-5 people
14 pickups
November-May

Stored crops include winter squash, onions, carrots, beets, garlic, potatoes, and others.
Cooking and salad greens from our greenhouse include lettuce, spinach, kale, swiss chard, herbs
Dried chilies, herbs, and teas
Each week will have a locally sourced treat.  We like to put these in to round out the shares, and shine light on some of the other cool local foods being made, such as jam (Beaumont’s Berries), canned tomatoes (Simple Gifts Farm, Amherst), honey, maple syrup, cheese, butter, bread, or fruit.
We will distribute winter shares every other week. It will typically contain 5-7 varieties and weigh 10-15lbs.
Click here for the 2013-2014 winter share schedule

• Winter Egg Share: $85 per share

1 Dozen Eggs every other week (same schedule as winter veggie share)
Our own heritage breed chickens, free range, organic, cage free, and loving life!
14 pickups
November-May

• Fruit Share: $160

pickups each week June-October

We will be offering a deluxe option of locally grown fruit with your shares. Expect strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, apples, pears, peaches, grapes, and more!  These will come alongside the veggie shares each week, much like the egg share option.  Please note, the fruit will be mostly grown by other nearby farms, not Stone Soup.  We will source organic fruit when it is available, but we will buy conventionally grown if suitable organic options are not available.