CSA Program
2024 CSA Signup Open Now!
What is CSA? | What We Offer | Purchase Your CSA | 2024 Schedule & Pricing | Sample CSA Shares | Pickup Locations | Sliding Scale CSA Shares | Make a Donation | Is a CSA Right for Me? |Testimonials
What is CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is based on the principle that individuals from the community subscribe to a local farm by providing financial support in the beginning of spring, when the farmers most need money to buy seeds and supplies. In exchange, each member receives a box of produce weekly throughout the season. This mutually beneficial partnership ensures a more secure market for small farms and provides members convenient access to healthier, safer, and tastier food. Our model allows more flexibility to join in month-by-month, and rewards those who make a larger commitment to the farm.
CSA is an ideal way to receive the bounty of Red Dog Farm’s distinguished organic vegetables, berries and flowers. Each week of the CSA season, you will receive a share of our harvest- five to eight items, depending on the season. We prioritize growing varieties that you love most and take care to ensure that each week’s share is a balance of items that compliment each other. We pick your produce fresh, and deliver to a pick-up location near your home.
By investing in Red Dog Farm CSA, you become part of a larger movement of local agriculture in our community, as well as part of our farm. Each week, we send out newsletters highlighting happenings on the farm, recipes, storage tips, and deals on bulk crops like tomatoes and berries. You’ll get to meet our farm crew, hear of our successes and failures, and read farmer musings during all four seasons.
What We Offer:
• One share size, designed to feed 1-3 people, depending on eating habit
• CSA season April- December
• Minimum commitment of one month
• Weekly pick-up on Wednesday afternoons
• Choice of 5 pick-up locations (Port Townsend, Port Ludlow and Chimacum)
• Discounts based on your commitment level (up to 15%)
• Monthly auto-payment option
• Sliding scale option
• 10% discount at market and Farmstand (for current members)
• Weekly newsletters
Purchase your CSA:
To Sign Up:
Fill out a current CSA Sign Up Sheet. Pay in full by cash, check, or credit card, or sign up for our auto-payment plan with your credit card, and send the form back to us either by mail or by dropping it into the moneybox at our Farmstand.
OR
Shop online for the Full Season CSA (Save 15%) or Pick Your Months (sign up for any 3-5 months to save 5%; sign up for any 6-8 months to save 10%).
2024 CSA Schedule & Pricing:
- $136 April: 3, 10, 17, 24 ($34 per week)
- $170 May: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 ($34 per week)
- $136 June: 5, 12, 19, 26 ($34 per week)
- $200 July: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 ($40 per week)
- $168 August: 7, 14, 21, 28 ($42 per week)
- $172 September: 4, 11, 18, 25 ($43 per week)
- $175 October: 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 ($35 per week)
- $136 November: 6, 13, 20, 27 ($34 per week)
- $90 December: 4, 11 ($30 per week, last week is a double share)
Purchase 2024 CSA online or with our paper signup form.
Sample CSA Shares (changes weekly):
April
½ lb. Spinach
½ lb. Salad Mix
2 lbs. Carrots
1 bunch Collard Raab
1 bunch Chives
5 stems Tulips
May
½ lb. Salad Mix
1 lb. Raab Mix
1 lb. Baby Bok Choi
1 bunch Green Onions
1 bunch Arugula
1 bunch French Breakfast Radishes
5 stems Tulips
June
1 pint Strawberries
½ lb. Salad Mix
1 pint Snap Peas
1 bunch Lacinato Kale
1 bunch Baby Carrots
1 bunch Hakurei Turnips
July
2 half-pints Raspberries
1 head Red Butter Lettuce
1 lb. Green Beans
1 lb. Zucchini
1 Sweet Onion
1 lb. New Potatoes
1 head Broccoli
August
2 pints Strawberries
1/8 lb. Basil
1 head Cauliflower
1 lb. Green Beans
1 lb. Slicing Tomatoes
2 Cucumbers
1 head Leaf Lettuce
September
1 pint Strawberries
4 ears Sweet Corn
1 head Romaine Lettuce
1 lb. Green Beans
1 head Celery
1 lb. Slicing Tomatoes
1 bunch Cilantro
1 Red Onion
October
1 lb. Brussels Sprouts
1 bunch Red Russian Kale
1 Buttercup Squash
2 lbs. German Butterball Potatoes
1 lb. Leeks
1 bunch Carrots
1 lb. Broccoli
November
1 lb. Brussels Sprouts
1 Celeriac
1 head Radicchio
1 Acorn Squash
½ lb. Stir-fry Mix
1 bunch Rainbow Chard
2 Yellow Onions
December
1 Delicata Squash
1 Butternut Squash
1 lb. Carrots
1 lb. Gold Beets
1 bunch Lacinato Kale
2 lbs. Red Potatoes
1 head Cabbage
CSA Pick-up Locations:
Red Dog Farm, Chimacum
Wednesdays 11 am- 8 pm & Thursdays 8 am – 8 pm*
Hearth Natural Medicine, Kala Square
Wednesdays 1 pm – 8 pm
Hospital, Port Townsend
Wednesdays 3 pm – 8 pm
Uptown, Port Townsend
Wednesdays 2 pm – 8 pm & Thursdays 8 am – 7 pm*
Port Ludlow
Wednesdays 3 pm – Thursdays 8 am*
*Shares are always freshest on Wednesday afternoons. They are not refrigerated overnight.
Sliding Scale CSA Shares:
This program is very popular and there are not adequate funds to meet the demand. If you need assistance to afford a CSA, available funds are first-come, first-served. Please consider requesting only what you need so we can distribute food to as many families as possible. Maximum discount is 50%. Please contact us to see if funds are available.
Make a Donation:
Good food should be accessible to everyone. Toward this end, we offer discounted CSA shares to community members on a sliding scale. Red Dog Farm matches all donations 100%. Please consider investing in our community by making a contribution online to our Sliding Scale CSA Fund. You can also donate using our 2024 CSA Sign Up Sheet. Any amount is appreciated!
Is a CSA Right for Me?
A few questions to think over before joining our CSA…
- Do you value having fresh, local, organic produce?
- Are you up for trying new vegetables?
- Can you be flexible with your menu planning?
- Are you ready for the experience of eating seasonally with the farm?
- Is supporting a local farm and its farmers important to you?
If you answered yes to these questions, then consider yourself a great candidate for CSA! We value the commitment you are making to us and appreciate your confidence in us. If it seems like too much food/commitment/etc. for you there are many other ways to be a part of the Red Dog Farm 2024 Season: Dog Bucks, visiting us at the farmers markets or our Farmstand, or enjoying our produce at area restaurants or grocery stores.
No matter how you are a part of our 2024 season, you will experience the story of Red Dog Farm, our successes and our struggles.
Testimonials:
“This is our first year to join a CSA, and it has been wonderful. Not only is the produce so fresh and good; but it is like a treasure hunt, or grab bag. We don’t know what is coming each week. We anticipate the Tuesday newsletter, and then get creative, deciding what we will cook with what is coming. It’s good for the brain, not only the healthy food you’re growing for us all; but the creativity is good to keep the old gears a turning up there between my ears.”
“The quality is great and we feel that we are part of the farm. It is “our farm”!”
“I believe it helps the community at large to support our local farms. Also, local farmers are part of our community and I believe we are supporting ourselves when we support them. For example, I don’t feel the least bit concerned about news of this or that agricultural recall because I know where my lettuce comes from- down the road.”
“The quality of the produce is high, it’s a great price for the quantity and items.”
“Eating your beautiful, local produce each week is a wonderful opportunity for health and to support local farmers.”
“Our CSA share really opened our eyes to all of the delicious produce we were missing by shopping at the grocery store. The recipes were very helpful, as otherwise it would’ve been difficult to find recipes for exactly the produce we had.”
“We have been part of the CSA program for many years. My top reasons for rejoining are: fresh vegetables always in the fridge, supporting local producers, and my now grown kids learned to truly love vegetables!”