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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. We enjoy making wonderful boxes for our special group and appreciate and depend on their support. CSA's vitalize small farms like ours and help assure the survival of the small farm in an often precarious economic environment.
 Registration & Share Cost
Registration is open this year until May 15. Shares will continue to be sold until we are full for the season. Please contact the farm to check for availability.
You may register:
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Online (click here to view our online registration form)
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By Mail
You may print out the online application or send us your name & mailing address so that we can send you a hard copy
93851 horton Rd.
Blachly, OR 97412
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By Phone:
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
925-3019
Debra or Bill
Allot about 5 minutes to answer registration questions
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By Email
horton@peak.org answer questions on registration form
*If payment is not sent with mail-in registration, you will be invoiced with payment due 30 days from signup.
Membership Cost:
Membership Cost:
$370/ season (21 weeks)
Payment Options:
Annually ($370), Monthly ($74/mo.) or twice ($185 X2)
Members also receive discounts on specific items at our farm stand at the Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Farmer’s Markets.
Note: Although financial savings should not be a primary motive for joining a CSA, historically, we’ve found the value of the contents of our boxes exceeding their Farmer’s Market value.
LIFE (Low Income Fund Edible): Each year we collect donations from members who are able to help off set the share cost for low income members. If you need financial assistance, please request aid when you register.
No Waste
In several ways, CSA's reduce the amount of waste that is inherent in our larger agricultural system. Empty Harvest Boxes are returned each week by our members for reuse the following week. In addition, if you are not able to pick up your box, members often make a gift of them to a friend or neighbor or just cancel for that week. Boxes that are forgotten after the allotted pickup hours are donated to people who can use or need the food. It is unlikely that members will like everything that's in the boxes, so on site we have a "Trade-In Box" where members are encouraged to leave items they don't use for other people and vice-versa.
Pickup
Harvest Boxes are put together for member pickup on Tuesdays or Thursdays and are available for retrieval during specific late afternoon hours only. The pickup locations are in Eugene or on-farm and are typically unattended cool garage spaces donated by members. There, CSA members pick up their boxes, read notes from their farmers on what's included, pick up monthly newsletters & recipes.
Looking for someone to share boxes with? Sharing boxes can be a good way to enter into CSA membership and make friends. About 20% of our subscribers share with other households. Arrangements must be made between parties as to how they wish to split up the boxes. Some folks decide to pick up every other week. There will be only one primary name on the share for purposes of billing and payment. Click here to find someone to share boxes with.
Education
There are frequent communications to our members. Each week we post timely messages about what's in the boxes, tips on cooking, unusual crop problems and successes and storage tips. Optional weekly email messages let you know ahead what's going to come in your box. A monthly newsletter informs you about what's happening out here at the farm. Occasionally individual recipes are distributed for members by a volunteer and everyone is encouraged to contribute. There is also a Q & A sheet on the bulletin boards for comments and Q's.
Farm Connection
Annual CSA Farm Day
Toward the end of the season each year, we host an Annual CSA Farm Day – a cozy gathering of members sharing food, company and touring the farm. Sometimes we have a work party, fresh ice cream making or the very popular strawberry and flower picking. Stay tuned for this year’s details. Friends and family are quite welcome.
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