CSA Veggie Shares
Full Value Share $725 for four adults or home canning for winter meals. A 1-1/9th bushel box, similar to a big box of apples or oranges.
Plenty Half Share $425 for a veggie-loving family. Comes in a 5/9th bushel box, about the size of a crate of peaches.
Eatin’ Good Share $375 for small households and weekend chefs. A ½ bushel box, which is slightly smaller than a lug of pears.
On harvest/delivery days, we pick every fruit, root, flower, and leaf that is ripe and ready. We cool, wash, drain, bag or bundle what we’ve harvested.
Eatin’ Good Share is nice assortment of just-ripe veggies – e.g., a bag of baby lettuce, a small bunch of carrots, one head of broccoli, one cucumber, one zucchini, a pint of cherry tomatoes, plus fresh springs of the herb of the week. Weekly delivery averages 5 to 9 lbs of produce.
Plenty Half Share contains all vegetable and herb varieties ready to be harvested, packed carefully until the share box is full. Weekly delivery averages 10 to 18 lbs of produce. Plus, by reservation and as available, there will be basil for pesto, okra, tomatillos, and tomatoes for canning.
Full Value Share is a bounteous assortment of everything ripe for harvest. For large families, value conscious members, and those who want to put up food for next winter. Weekly delivery averages 20 to 36 lbs of produce. Plus, by reservation and as available, there will be basil for pesto, okra, tomatillos, and tomatoes for canning.
Winter Veggie Share will not happen in 2011. Our potatoes (anchor crop for a winter share) failed due to utter lack of rain in August and September. We're sorry.
Share prices are determined by dividing the cost of raising and delivering the vegetables by the number of shares to be sold. See the CSA Economics page for budget details.
2011 was a short season, dictated by the weather. The graphs below offer a visual comparison between our CSA's share prices, and equivalent amounts of produce purchased at the Park Rapids farmers market or at regional grocery stores. The graphs reflect 2011's 14-week season.
A normal CSA season is 16 weeks. Weekly cost of a CSA share based on this normal 16-week season is
Full share- $45.32
Half share- $26.57
Eatin share- $23.44
Starting in 2012, we are expecting to start the season earlier, with bi-weekly deliveries of salad greens grown in our high tunnel.
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Click here to download 1/2 share chart for better viewing.
Click here to download Eatin' share chart for better viewing.
