Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
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What is CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relationship between our farm and you as our customer. Rather than simply purchasing food, our customers become “members” of this CSA farm who receive a portion of the farm’s harvest.
Our CSA runs for 18 weeks, from the first week of June until October. Members are responsible for showing up at Sanborn Mills Farm, last barn on the right at the very end of Ring Road, Loudon, NH each week to pick up your share of freshly harvested produce. You will generally receive ½ bushel (equivalent to one full brown paper grocery bag) or ¼ bushel (equivalent to ½ of a brown paper grocery bag) of vegetables each week, depending on which share you sign up for.
Growing Practices
Sanborn Mills Farm is committed to growing high quality food without the use of nonorganic products. By using polyculture practices the Farm is able to grow multiple crops in one area allowing them to complement each other producing greater diversity of products. This also makes them more resilient to weather, pests, and promotes soil fertility. Incorporating livestock, crop rotation, companion plants, and cover crops to our gardens and fields helps us to achieve our goal of producing naturally grown food.
Shared Commitments
Our polyculture practices help to make our crops more resilient to weather, pests, and promotes soil fertility thus reducing, but not eliminating the risk of crop failure.
We promise to do our best to provide you with a bountiful share each week. The quantity of produce, however, may vary from week-to-week or month-to-month due to extreme weather, insects, or other production factors despite our best efforts. By joining our CSA, you are agreeing to share the risk of crop failure with us and other members.
If only a small portion of crops fail, we compensate for the failed crops by filling your share with other crops grown on the farm that are ready for harvest at that time. If a large portion of crops fail, we may not be able to deliver any product in some weeks.
CUT FLOWER CSA SHARE
We are thrilled to share the beauty of our gardens and fields with you and brighten up your homes all summer. For nine weeks, starting July 24th and ending September 18th shareholders will be able to pick up a bouquet of the freshest flowers we have to offer on our regular CSA day, Wednesday. You do not have to sign up for the full vegetable CSA to get the add-on but we strongly encourage it!
This cut flower share will feature a wide variety of blooms, from garden classics like Zinnias, Strawflowers, and Marigolds to more specialty cuts like Dahlias, Gladiolus, and Delphinium. Each week shareholders will receive a mix of face flowers, airy detail stems, and textural pods, foliage and grasses. It should be noted that these are market style bouquets that will need a vase once they arrive home. Shares will run just over $12/week coming out to $110 for the complete season.
Drop Site Rules
Members are responsible for picking up their share every Wednesday from June-October at Sanborn Mills Farm between 1pm and 6pm.
- A pine wood produce box will be provided to you by Sanborn Mills Farm. The box is made from pine lumber from the farm property that has been milled on the site! On your first pick-up you will be given a box, which will be full of your vegetables. The next week you will return this box to the drop site and pick up a fresh box that will contain your vegetable for that week. You must return last week’s box each week.
- Pick up your share within the timeframe stated. Although we deliver high-quality produce to the site, it will decline quickly if not picked up in time.
- Be respectful of our drop site hosts’ property.
- Follow additional rules and signs posted at your drop site regarding parking/use of certain entrances/boxes.
*If you cannot pick-up your share, you must arrange for someone else to pick it up for you. You are responsible for explaining the pick-up location and procedures to your substitute. Shares that are not retrieved within the pick-up time will be donated to a charity or the Loudon food pantry.
*We take the safety of your food seriously. We follow all state food handling requirements. For your added protection, wash all produce before eating.