You’d be hard pressed to find a better food investment than a CSA. I’m proud to support local organic farms and agriculture and can’t wait to cook with all the summer goodness!”- Jess, Vegetable CSA customer

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, a concerted effort between grower and consumer to make local food and farm products more sustainable for all involved. By purchasing a share at the beginning of the season, before crops are even planted, you are making an investment in future harvests of healthy fresh vegetables, and beautiful fresh flowers.

CSA Offerings for 2024 are now on sale! When you click any of the links below, be sure you are logged into your member account in order to see all the shares that are available.

2024 CSAs

Spring Flower CSA

NCOF’s seasonal, certified-organic florist-quality cut flowers can’t be beat for freshness or beauty.
5 weeks of fresh bouquets is a perfect gift for yourself or a friend.

  • Cost: $125
  • Duration: 5 weeks, beginning in mid-spring. Pickups will be every Wednesday.
  • Participants will be notified one week prior to when shares begin.
  • Contains seasonal unique, florist varieties not found elsewhere!
  • Weekly pick ups from the NCOF root cellar.
  • Farmer membership ($50) or above required
  • Proceeds support NCOF’s mission of providing productive open space, farm products, and hands-on education to all ages, year-round.
Summer Flower CSA

NCOF’s seasonal, certified-organic florist-quality cut flowers can’t be beat for freshness or beauty.

  • Cost: $320 for the 16 week share.
  • Choose Tuesdays or Thursdays, pick up anytime after 3 pm.
  • Beginning around Memorial Day, weather depending.
  • Participants will be notified one week prior to when shares begin.
  • Contains seasonal unique, florist varieties not found elsewhere!
  • Weekly pick ups from the NCOF root cellar.
  • Farmer membership ($50) or above required
  • Proceeds support NCOF’s mission of providing productive open space, farm products, and hands-on education to all ages, year-round.
Summer Small Vegetable CSA

Eat well and spend wisely on our local, fresh, seasonal, certified-organic vegetables from Natick Community Organic Farm

  • Cost: $390 for a small share (feeds 1-2), $580 for a large share (feeds 3-4)
  • Pick up: after 3PM at the root cellar on your designated day.
  • Duration: 16 weeks.
  • Start date: around Memorial Day, but weather-dependent. (We will confirm our start date one-week prior.)
  • BYOTB–Bring Your Own Tote Bags.
  • Shares will begin modestly in size with cool season greens, then grow in size as season progresses.
  • Our weekly CSA e-newsletter provides recipes, storage tips, and more.
  • NEW THIS SEASON: Pick your own herbs from our herb garden
Summer Large Vegetable CSA

Eat well and spend wisely on our local, fresh, seasonal, certified-organic vegetables
from Natick Community Organic Farm

  • Cost: $390 for a small share (feeds 1-2), $580 for a large share (feeds 3-4).
  • Pick up: after 3PM at the root cellar on Mondays.
  • Duration: 16 weeks.
  • Start date: around Memorial Day, but weather-dependent. (We will confirm our start date one-week prior.)
  • BYOTB–Bring Your Own Tote Bags.
  • Shares will begin modestly in size with cool season greens, then grow in size as season progresses.
  • Our weekly CSA e-newsletter provides recipes, storage tips, and more.
  • NEW IN 2024: Pick your own herbs from our herb garden.
Summer Meat Add-On CSA

We are very excited to offer a small meat add on to your Veggie and Flower CSA shares in 2024. This add on allows you to select your choice of 1 package of meat each week when you come to pick up your Veggie or Flower CSA.

  • Cost: $195
  • Duration: 16 weeks, beginning when Vegetable and Flower CSAs begin, around the start of June.
  • Participants will be notified one week prior to when shares begin.
  • Weekly pick ups from the NCOF root cellar.
  • Farmer membership ($50) or above required

What will we have to choose from?

We promise to provide everyone with at least 2 options each week; we will always have ground beef as an option but you might also find: Stew beef, Sweet Italian sausage, Breakfast Sausage, Smoked bacon, Goat kabobs, Ground lamb, Ground Goat, Small steaks, or Pork chops. There will also be at least once chance this summer to pick up a whole fresh chicken.

Summer Farmers Choice Meat CSA

Farmers Choice Meat CSA 

  • Cost: Small Share $150, Medium Share $300, Large Share $600
  • Pick up: any time between Monday and Friday afternoon on pickup weeks.
  • Duration: 8 pickups over 16 weeks.
  • Start date: June 3, then every other week thereafter (see exact dates in the listing)
  • Our weekly CSA e-newsletter provides recipes and more.
  • There will be opportunities to pick up fresh chicken as part of your share. Fresh Chicken pickups will be shared with you at least 2 weeks before pick up.

Featuring NCOF’s humanely raised pork, goat, lamb, & chicken. As well as Rocca Di Cambio’s premium grass-fed Angus Beef. 

Questions? Email livestock@natickfarm.org

Summer Mushroom CSA

With this CSA Subscription you are getting 8 weeks of top quality Mushrooms Grown at Fat Moon Farm, during our 16 week summer CSA. The share will be a Farmers Choice blend. Varieties that might be included are; shiitake, blue oyster, phoenix oyster, yellow oyster, chestnut, lion’s mane, and peppino mushrooms.

 

Quick Facts

  • This share coincides with the timing of the Summer Vegetable share but may be bought independently.
  • Pickups occur every other week starting June 3 going through September 1
  • Pick up is self-serve, any shares not picked up by Friday afternoon will be reallocated or donated.

 

Share pick up is self-serve and must occur between Monday at 5pm and Friday at 12pm during NCOF open hours. NCOF is open every day during daylight hours. Fridge space is extremely limited. Any Shares not picked up by Friday at noon will be reallocated or donated, no exceptions.

Pick up is designed to coincide with our Veggie and Flower CSA’s. If you are purchasing any other summer CSA you will be able to collect all shares on the same day of the week. You will receive an email prior to the weeks pick up with a reminder and newsletter component regarding the week’s activities on the farm. This is also the place where unexpected changes will be announced as they come up.

Please contact haley@natickfarm.org with any questions regarding the 2024 mushroom CSA.

CSA FAQ

We actually don’t determine your share size by pounds, because leafy crops like lettuce weigh very little, while root crops like potatoes weigh a lot. Instead, we base share size on what we’re harvesting from the fields and the cumulative dollar-value of the vegetables that we put in your share every week. Our shares tend to start out on smaller size, with cool-season greens, and then increase in size as the weather warms, and more crops come in. On average, by the end of the season, NCOF’s CSA customers receive between 5% and 10% more dollars-worth of food than what they paid for their shares. This is our way of saying thank you for investing in our farm through our CSA program.

The variety of produce that we include in the shares will differ slightly from year to year, as the farmers plan for crops that will be most successful in our fields, but to give you an example:

2022 Summer Share Week 1 included Pac choi, endive, fresh herbs, lettuce, mesclun mix, radishes, a 4 pack of our organic veggie seedlings, and turnips

2022 Summer Share Week 8 (halfway through the season) had carrots, celery, endive, herbs, kale or collard greens, leeks, lettuce, onions, rutabaga, and tomatoes.

The last week of the 2022 season had popping corn, eggplant, garlic, herbs, lettuce, bell peppers, shishito peppers, summer squash, swiss chard, tomatoes, and winter squash.

This is one of our most frequently asked questions. The large shares are about 50% bigger than the small, but we like to say that the small shares feed 1-2 people and the large shares feed 3-4. In general, the small and large shares get the same variety of vegetables, although some weeks the large shares get one or two more types. 

Our weekly e-newsletter will let you know what to expect in your share. You will get plenty of greens, but you will not get lettuce or salad every week, since they generally do not thrive during hot weather.

You can come on your pick up day until dusk, which is pretty late in the summer. We ask you not to come after dark because people live here to help with farm security and we need to respect their privacy.

We get that life sometimes gets busy. Please do your best to get here on your designated pick-up day, or to send a friend, because that’s when your food will be freshest and at its most nutritious. We will leave unclaimed shares in the root cellar until around 8 AM the next morning. After that, they will get unpacked and redistributed. Sorry, but we do not have make-up shares for missed pick ups.

We’re sorry that you missed out. 🙁 You can ask to be added to our waitlist by emailing us. There are many other excellent CSAs nearby run by very good farming friends of ours, like Vanguarden Farm in Dover and Silverwood Farm CSA in Sherborn.