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Be an active part in the endeavor to keep agriculture vibrant and sustaining; join a CSA!

What's Community Supported Agriculture at Horton Road?

Horton Road’s CSA is back!

Our CSA program is a partnership where local community members and farmers share the agricultural risks and their benefits in support of sustainable land stewardship. Our CSA  provides fresh organically grown vegetables, education and seasonal celebration for its members in order to create a closer relationship to our food, nature, the farm and its seasons. 

We have filled the CSA for the 2010 season!  Box delivery will be weekly, on Thursdays in Eugene from June 10 through October 28.  There are four drop spots available: downtown, Fairgrounds, Westmoreland, and South/U of O.  Click here for the registration form.

Our CSA Goals and Strategies:

Sustainable Land Stewardship

• Using Certified Organic Practices including Rotations, Cover Cropping, Soil Fertility  Monitoring and Care, Plant Diversity
• Active Research, Development and Implementation of New Practices that further a healthy sustainable agricultural system

Healthy Food Production for Community

• Food is Accessible
• Affordable
• Offering is Diverse
• Nutritious

Farmers and Staff Well Being

• Providing Fair Wages
• Benefits including Health Care and Food
• Retirement Security
• Keeping Work Enjoyable/ Fulfilling

Community Development and Education

• Establish Core Group
• Seasonal On Farm Events
• Farm Slide Show
• Providing Recipes
• Cooking Classes
• Newsletters communicate sense of seasonal rhythms, respect and appreciation for nature

Financial Viability

• Members commit to entire season sharing some of the risk of production
• Cost of membership reflects the cost of production
• Farm managed efficiently
• Business reinvests in Infrastructure
• Business has adequate cash flow
• Business has access to emergency funds

Why Join a CSA?

• Enrich Your Life
  Feed yourself and your family delicious exceptional fresh vegetables carefully arranged and grown organically with love and care.
   
• Connect with the Land
  Know exactly how your food is grown and by whom. Become intimate with the season’s ebb and flow, stories of life on a farm and the ever changing natural elements on which our lives depend.
   
• Support Wholesome Change
  Revitalize the essential link of interdependence between our farms, farmers and communities threatened by societies reliance on supermarkets and corporate agribusiness
   
• Educate Yourself and the Next Generation
  Learn how your food is grown , how to eat with the seasons, and cook wholesome meals. Support our work to train new farmers in sustainable agriculture.
   
• Create a Lasting Sanctuary
  Help sustain this small local farm as it continues to be a nourishing place for people to live, work and visit.
   

CSA Philosophy

CSA farms represent an innovative new partnership between community members and farmers where members share the agricultural risks and benefits in support of sustainable land stewardship. In exchange for their financial and sometimes moral support, our CSA provides members with fresh organic vegetables weekly for five months of the growing season as well as education about local agriculture and access to the farm. Belonging to a farm is a commitment designed to create a deeper relationship to your food, the seasons of nature and those that are directly involved with caring for the land.

By belonging to a CSA, you share some of the risks of organic agriculture by investing in the farm as a whole and not necessarily each crop whose performance is largely dependent on mother nature. Some years will be good for some crops and not others and you experience the joys and losses through your meals. CSA's vitalize small farms and help assure the survival of the small farm in an often precarious economic environment.