Winter Greens CSA

$120.00 – $200.00

*Please note terms of member agreement in the description below before purchasing*

Looking for a delicious, affordable way to support ECO City Farms and our mission to grow great food, farms, and farmers? Sign up for our 2024-2025 Winter CSA today!

How does it work?

At ECO, we grow over 70 varieties of fruits and vegetables. We grow food in ways that sustain the environment, our farmers, and our communities. We choose climate-resilient and heirloom varieties, and incorporate a wide range of sustainable growing practices. Your CSA membership supports our ongoing commitment to treating our communities and our land with love and respect. 

A CSA is kind of like a season-long subscription to fresh food. As a CSA member, you sign up and pay for your shares ahead of time (right now!). On specific dates this winter, listed below, you’ll come to the farm to pick up a bag with fresh, healthy, organically grown fruits and vegetables inside. 

You’ll receive an email newsletter the week of your pickup with a list of that week’s produce, recipe ideas, and updates about what’s going on at ECO City Farms.

Please note that pickups are generally every other week, and not weekly, during the winter. Due to the challenges around cold weather and lack of daylight in winter, plants grow back more slowly, and we are only able to offer bimonthly shares. Thanks for your understanding!

What’s in my CSA?

 We strive to provide you with quality, abundance, and variety in each share. A share is generally enough food for one to two people. We do our best to plan to give you a different mix of produce each week! In winter, you can expect lots of greens (kale, collards, chard), salad mixes (lettuce, spinach, arugula), herbs, and roots/tubers (carrot, radish, turnip, sweet potatoes).

Pick-up date, time and location?

Our Winter Greens CSA season begins December 5 and will run through March 20th. Pick up is bi-weekly with an end-of-year break. Exact pick-up dates are listed below.

Pick up is on Thursdays from 3 PM to 6 PM at the Edmonston Farm (4913 Crittenden Street Edmonston, MD 20781). If you cannot make it to the farm within the pickup window, we’ll leave your share in a cooler outside the farm’s gate for you to pick up later that evening. After the 5 PM pick-up time, staff will not be on-site and we cannot ensure your share will be in the cooler when you arrive.

How much does a CSA cost?

Members also have the option to pay for their CSA in full now, or in monthly installments.

  • Accessible CSA: $15 x share, or $120 for the whole winter CSA
  • Base CSA: $20 x share, or $160 for the whole winter CSA
  • Redistribution CSA: $25 x share, or $200 for the whole winter CSA

The additional funds from our redistribution shares are designed to offset the cost of accessible shares and allow us to gift free shares to our Edmonston neighbors.

**Use SNAP/WIC to pay for your CSA! Send an email to engage@ecocityfarms.org to sign up.

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Pickup dates

  • Thursday, 12/5/24
  • Thursday, 12/19/24
  • End of year break
  • Thursday, 1/9/25
  • Thursday, 1/23/25
  • Thursday, 2/6/25
  • Thursday, 2/20/25
  • Thursday, 3/6/25
  • Thursday, 3/20/25

How much does a CSA cost?

Pay what you can with our sliding scale!

A sliding scale means that there are several payment options for you to choose from, based on your understanding of your own financial need, and other forms of social privilege you may experience in the world. 

As explained by Soul Fire Farm’s solidarity share model: “We ask that people with more wealth and income pay more for their CSA share subscription to subsidize shares for those with less wealth and income. We empower people to decide for themselves what contribution level makes sense and offer coaching to support that determination. For example, people are encouraged to pay less if they are supporting children, have high medical expenses or immigration costs, or receive public assistance. People are encouraged to pay more if they own their home, have inheritance, work less by choice, or have high earning power based on their demographic position…The goal is that all members pay approximately the same percentage of their income toward their food, practicing economic solidarity.”

Much has been written about sliding scales as tools for more meaningfully integrating principles of social and economic justice into farming and food access. If you’re interested in learning more, we recommend you check out these guides from Soul Fire Farm and Little Red Bird Botanicals. 

Members also have the option to pay for their CSA in full now, or in monthly installments.

  • Accessible CSA: $15 x share, or $120 for the whole winter CSA
  • Base CSA: $20 x share, or $160 for the whole winter CSA
  • Redistribution CSA: $25 x share, or $200 for the whole winter CSA

**Use SNAP/WIC to pay for your CSA! Send an email to engage@ecocityfarms.org to sign up.

The additional funds from our redistribution shares are designed to offset the cost of accessible shares and allow us to gift free shares to our Edmonston neighbors.

 

Member Agreement
By purchasing a CSA share, you agree to the following statement: By becoming a member of ECO’s CSA/Farm Share program, I am committing to picking up my share for the time period of the season. If I cannot pick up my share I will try to have a friend pickup in my place. I understand that there are no make ups or refunds for shares not picked up. I have read and understood the policies outlined in the information provided.
Farm Share Policies

Share Pick Ups: All members pick up their share. Shares can only be picked up during the designated time, but you may send a friend to pick yours up if you cannot make it. There are no make-ups or refunds for shares not picked up.

Inclement Weather/Cancellations: Farm share pickups are held rain or shine. In the event of hazardous conditions, ECO will notify members of pickup cancellation or rescheduling via email and members will be issued a makeup option.

Crop Failure and Risk: ECO’s farmers and staff do their very best to provide consistent, high quality produce to every farm share member, every week. However, the farm share members also share in the risks as well as the benefits of the growing season. Risks in farming include pests, drought, excessive rain, wind, and crop failure. In case of shortage in supply ECO may need to change the variety and quantity of produce and/or will distribute available produce fairly among its members. Farmer designated skip weeks will be used in the case of extreme circumstances.

Payments: All farm share members must pre-pay for the season. (If looking for month-to-month payment accommodations or to pay through SNAP, reach out to engage@ecocityfarms.org.) Members commit to paying any balance by the due date. Checks should be made payable to ECO City Farms.

Additional information

Share Type

Accessible CSA, Base CSA, Redistribution CSA

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