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How Our CSA Works

Members of our CSA program receive fresh, high quality vegetables for 18 weeks from our farm and other family farms close to Washington. The CSA runs from May through October. During the season we will skip some weeks because of holidays or gaps between crops.

Weekly pickups are on Monday evenings at the farm and Christ Church located at 6th and G Street SE. Pickup times at both sites are from 5:30 pm to 7pm. If you are running late, you can call us at 301-237-7538 and we will be happy to leave a packed-up share for you in the church courtyard or at the farm.

2013 Share Prices:

Shares Delivered to Capitol Hill at Christ Church, 620 G St SE: $630

Shares picked-up on the farm: $518

We also offer a 14 week flower share for $165

See the how to subscribe section of the website for more information on how to join. Please call or email us with any questions not answered below. Email is the best way to reach us, jugbay@verizon.net.

What Will Subscribers Receive?

The size of the shares varies from week to week, being abundant some weeks and smaller others. The spring shares include strawberries, lettuce, peas, greens, radishes, onions, kale and other early crops. Beginning in July, the shares will consist of summer produce such as squash, tomatoes, beans, peppers, corn and melons. Fall shares are similar to those in the spring but are usually larger. Click here for full CSA crop list.

Our farm is Certified Naturally Grown (CNG). CNG is an alternative certifying program for small family farms. Farms that are Certified Naturally Grown must follow natural growing practices that as strict if not stricter than the the practices required by the Federal National Organic Program (NOP) certification system. For years we were certified by NOP but decided that there were too many paperwork requirements that were relevant to a large organic corporate farm but not to our small family farm. CNG is a better fit for us.

Produce from other Local Farms

We include vegetables from other family farms in the CSA shares each week. This allows us to offer more variety and to support other local, small family farms. Additonal vegetables in the CSA are either from other Prince George's County family farms or Mennonite family farmers south of us in St. Mary's County Maryland.

Most of the produce from other local farms is not grown using entirely natural or organic practices. However, most of the farmers that contribute to the CSA use limited chemicals and are committed to farming responsibly. Each week we let you know exactly what is from our farm, what's from other farms, what's organic and what's not.

What is Meant by Family Farms

All the produce is from family farms like our own where there are few workers who are not parents or children who will one day take over the operation. Much of American food, organic food included, is produced by gigantic corporate farms where owners sit in offices and manage employees with no long term stake in the farm. Our CSA and others like it are alternatives to this dominant model.