SPRINGFIELD, Vt. – A lot of people have heard of CSA farm share boxes, but aren’t quite sure how it works. It’s much simpler than you might think, and it might just forever change the way you eat.
Step 1: You join. You sign up for the season at www.farmontheriver.com. Choose weekly or biweekly delivery, and choose your payment method. Pay in full, or in three or six installments. Now your share of the harvest is reserved for your family, and you have your own farmers for the season. Boxes are sized to feed a family of four with produce for a full week.
Step 2: We grow your food. All season long, the crew at Farm on the River is growing certified organic vegetables for you on our beautiful farm in Springfield, Vt. Clean soil, water, and air. It’s the very best place to grow food. We’re seasoned farmers with more than 30 years’ experience and pioneers of the organic farming movement. You can trust us to grow the most nutrient-dense and flavorful food for your family.
Step 3: We harvest fresh from our fields just for you. Our harvest crew is in the fields by 7 a.m. harvesting five days a week. Nothing sits in storage. Everything is harvested fresh to order for your share.
Step 4: We wash, pack, and deliver to your neighborhood, or you can pick up at the farm. Your vegetables are gently washed in our food-safety-certified pack house, carefully boxed up, and ready for pickup at the farm or delivered to your chosen pickup location in Walpole, N.H., or, new this year, in Keene, N.H.
Step 5: You pick it up. Once a week, or biweekly if you choose, you collect your share. It takes five minutes to transfer the contents of your box into your own bags to bring home. No lines, no crowds, just easy self-serve pickup with long pickup windows that run until 8 p.m.
Going away or need to reschedule your pickup? No problem, we’re happy to work with you to offer an alternate pickup date or a credit for use later in the season.
Step 6: You bring it home and everything changes. Open your share and see what the season brought you this week. Read through our newsletter and select some recipes that sound good. We’ll walk you through each step of washing, preparing, cooking, and storing the produce in your box. We’re foodies first and foremost, so we understand busy lives and making the most of what’s in your share.
That’s it. No sad grocery store produce or waking up early to get the best selection at the farmers market. Just a simple relationship between your farmer, your family, and a box of the freshest food you’ve ever brought into your kitchen.
And here’s what nobody tells you about joining a CSA: It changes your relationship to your food. You start paying attention to what’s in season, and you cook with more confidence. Cooking for dinner becomes the best part of the day instead of another thing on the list. Your family eats better and actually enjoys it, because it just tastes so good.
Our first harvest starts in June, and we can’t wait to grow and eat well with you this season.