Sign ups for the Winter CSA are open!
How does it work?
The Winter CSA is a twice a month share that you will receive 4x, on Wednesday December 4, December 18, January 8 and January 22
For the winter share, pick up hours on the farm will be 12pm-6pm ( Please do ask if you need a different pick up time, we can likely accommodate!)
Home Delivery: If you live in Oregon City, Milwaukie, Oak Grove, Jennings Lodge, Gladstone, Happy Valley, Clackamas, West Linn, Tualitin east of I-5, or anywhere in Southeast Portland, you are likely in our CSA delivery region. ** We are unable to deliver to some rural areas of Oregon City. Please check in with us before signing up if you are uncertain if you are in our delivery region.
Veggies that you will receive in your share will include winter squash, carrots, beets, winter radishes, cabbage, potatoes, onion, garlic, kale, rainbow chard, radicchio, parsley, mustard greens, pac choi, mizuna, salad turnips, and more. The share may also include an occasional bag of frozen sauce tomatoes ( from Summer 2024) and other preserved items.
Winter CSA pick up/delivery dates may change if we receive inclement weather ( such as ice or snow!) and it is unsafe for us to harvest and deliver shares.
What do you get?
Here is an example of what each share might include:
Sample Share:
- 3 lbs Carrots (Bolero)
- 2 lbs Amarosa Potatoes(Red Fingerlings)
- 3 ct Shallots ( Conservor)
- 2 ct Delicata Squash ( Candystick)
- 1 bunch Lacinato Kale
- 1 ct Pink Radicchio
- 1 ct Green Cabbage
- 1 bu Parsley
What does it cost?
$200 for Farm Pick Up ($50/week)
$232 for Home Delivery ($58/week)
$64 for Fruit Share Add On ($16/week)
$35 for Mushroom Share Add On ($8.75/week)
You have the option of paying for the CSA (and all the add ons) with recurring payments. Basically you choose the recurring payment option in the shop and you will be charged on the weeks you receive your share. This is a great option for those who do not want to pay the whole cost of the CSA in one chunk.
Paying for CSA with SNAP
We are happy to be able to accept SNAP benefits for paying for our CSA shares! On top of that, Double Up Food Bucks gives SNAP recipients additional funds to reduce the cost of CSA by HALF! That means that half of the cost of the share is covered by your SNAP funds, and the other half is covered by Double Up Food Bucks. This includes delivery costs! Please make sure to choose a SNAP sign up option in the online store.
Portland Area CSA Coalition does the SNAP processing for us, and SNAP members will need to fill out additional paperwork.
Additionally, scholarships are available for those who need it. See below.
Need more Flexibility?
Does this model not offer enough flexibility for you in terms of what kind and how much produce you get? Check out our Market Share program as a more flexible option.
Add Ons
We are partnering again with Kiyokawa Orchards for a fruit share add on. The share will be primarily apples and pears.
Find out more about Kiyokawa Orchards here:
Romo’s Sourdough will offer a bread addon to our Winter CSA.
Bread will be $12/week with pick up/delivery on Wednesday December 18, January 8, and January 22.
***Make note that there will not be a bread share alongside the first Winter Veggie Share on December 4.
Here is more about Romo’s Sourdough and their baker, Sam Romanowski:
Sam is originally from the Catskill Mountains in upstate NY, where at 15, she got a job in a farm-to-table restaurant in a country town. The owner baked his own bread and she became entranced by the process and the product. After moving to Oregon in 2014 she took a “proper” class at Tabor Bread and started baking sourdough every week. In 2018, she graduated as a Certified Wholistic Nutritionist and started teaching sourdough workshops. Inspired by the growing microbakery community around the country, she decided to start selling her sourdough in the summer of 2024, using her 10 year old sourdough starter. Sam adamantly believes that everyone should have good bread, and hopes that her sourdough helps build community.
The sourdough you’ll be receiving in your CSA box is my “Original” loaf – a traditional, naturally leavened bread with a slightly tangy taste, chewy texture and no additives or preservatives. When you think about sourdough, this is what typically comes to mind. I use Bob’s Red Mill flours and bake every loaf in a dutch oven, giving it a nice crust and soft crumb.
Brown Bottle farm will be providing mushrooms as an add on for our CSA this season.
With each share, you will get approximately half a pound of mushrooms from Brown Bottle Farm. The mushroom share will include oysters, black trumpet, lionsmane, and a few other varietals. The mushrooms will be either delivered to your home or for pick up at the farm alongside your veggie share. If you are a SNAP recipient, you can use SNAP funds to pay for a mushroom add on.
A message from Brown Bottle Farm:
We are Anna Wilson-Falk and Ryan Falk of Brown Bottle Farm(BBF) a family mushroom, produce, and fermentation farm located in Mulino, Oregon. We started growing in 2016, and have been students of Mycology, the study of mushrooms, for over a decade. Our farm believes in beyond organic practices to benefit the people in our community and to grow the most healthful food. We never use synthetic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides in our production or anywhere on the farm.
We find fungi fascinating and have cultivated and wild foraged more than 30 varieties of edible and medicinal mushrooms. We hope you’ll give them a try!
To learn more about the farm visit our website. www.brownbottlefarm.com
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Common Questions
We try to fill up our shares as much as possible with tasty produce that is familiar to most folks (carrots, potatoes, lettuce, onions, garlic, etc). We offer a subscription to “Cook With What You Have” alongside your membership that has great advice and recipes for using unfamiliar (or new ideas for familiar ones !) vegetables in your share. At our on farm pick up location, we offer a “Swap and Extras Box” for you to switch out produce that you will not use with produce that you will use. It is also a place where we put extra produce for members when we have it, so it can sometimes be a great opportunity for families to get extra produce at no additional cost. Unfortunately, we are unable to have a swap option for home delivery customers.
YES. The best way to make the share accessible and affordable is to sign up for a subscription. You will only be charged the cost of the first share upon signing up and then will be charged a few days before receiving each of your boxes. If you are a SNAP recipient, SNAP and DUFB (Double Up Food Bucks) will cover half of the cost of the share! We also offer scholarships for those who need it, whether or not they are SNAP recipients. Just reach out to melissa@sunlovefarm.com if a scholarship could support you in getting a CSA share.
YES. Just reach out to melissa@sunlovefarm.com and we can figure out a discounted delivery price.
YES. We are willing to do partial or full trades. Please reach out to melissa@sunlovefarm.com if you have a trade in mind. Possible trades include coffee, bodywork, acupuncture, childcare, carpentry skills, tree work etc.
Scholarship Fund
We are committed to continuing to work to make our food as accessible as possible. If you are unable to pay for the full cost of a CSA share, we have a Scholarship Fund to subsidize the cost of your share. This is available for both SNAP recipients and anyone else who qualifies. Please fill out this form if the scholarship fund could support you in getting a CSA share.
If you have the resources, please donate to the Scholarship Fund here. Your donations mean a lot and can help provide fresh, healthy, local food to families that otherwise couldn’t afford it.
CSA Cancellation and Share Change Policy
Please only sign up if you are able to commit to receiving all 4 shares. We are not able to accommodate cancellations/refunds for the Winter Share.
Make note that if you receive delivery and will be out of town for the share, we can deliver the share to someone else, as long as they are in our delivery region and we are given notice by the Sunday before the share.
Also make note that we can accommodate alternative pick up times if the Wednesday 12pm-6pm pick up window does not work for you.
