UPDATE: Tuesday, May 12
Our CSA for the 2020 season is full.  If you've already joined a waitlist, we will reach out to you via email in the next few days.  Thanks for your patience as we respond to the incredible interest in our CSA this year!
email Rawley with any questions: earlybirdfarmer@gmail.com

HOW IT WORKS: CSA members receive a weekly share of the best our farm has to offer, at a discount over farmers market prices.  Each share includes a diverse mix of 7-8 different vegetables and there's always a trade box in case you want to swap out an item or two to suit your taste.  Although primarily a veggie CSA, a few weeks out of the season we include some fruit or berries grow on our farm as a bonus.  As a small farm dedicated to our CSA program, we are certain that you'll be impressed with the quality, diversity, and flavor of what's in the share each week!

COVID-19 STATEMENT: In past years we have distinguished ourselves with a "market style" CSA where members choose their own produce with the ability to swap out an item or two to suit their preference.  For everyone's health and safety, this season's CSA shares will be prepackaged to ensure utmost sanitation.  Both our pickup sites are open air and are large enough for an extremely safe level of social distancing.  More details will be provided to all our members before the first pickup/delivery.

WHAT EXACTLY IS A CSA? Read more on localharvest.org

WHEN & WHERE: Our CSA runs 20 weeks from mid-June to the end of October.

• Ballard pickup is on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 6:30pm in a neighborhood backyard near the Ballard Goodwill. Approximate location on Google Maps
• Tacoma area customers can pickup on the farm, on Fridays, anytime 9:30am to 6:30pm.  We are a 12 minute drive from downtown Tacoma or Puyallup.
• Capitol Hill pickup will be Friday 5-7pm.  On a porch near 25th Ave S and Dearborn St.  Approximate location on Google Maps
• New this year: no pickup August 5-7.  Farmer vacation week!

WHY CHOOSE US? The CSA program is the backbone of our farm.  We plan virtually all crops around the 20 week CSA season.  With only 2 acres in production, we can achieve a level of quality, taste, and freshness that larger farms cannot match.  You'll be amazed at the diversity of selection from week to week.  Support a small scale, family farm--your membership makes this all possible!

WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: Members get weekly recipe ideas and stories from the farm.  Here's a SAMPLE

SHARE SIZE: The share is sized for 2 people who cook a few nights a week, or for a small family that doesn't want to be overwhelmed with too much produce.  If that sounds like too much, consider sharing your CSA with a friend or neighbor, or signing up for a half share (every other week pickup).

EGG SHARES: For veggie CSA members only.  Our amazing eggs sell out at the farmers markets every week, but vegetable CSA members can reserve a dozen (or more) for a discount below market price by purchasing an egg share!

Here are sample shares from each month last season:

JUNE: 1 bunch spring onions, 1 bunch curly kale, 1/2 lb. sugar snap peas, 1 bunch carrots, 1 head broccoli, 1 bunch radishes, 1 head lettuce, 2 slicing cucumbers, 1/2 pint blueberries or strawberries

JULY: 1.5 lbs. heirloom tomatoes, 1.5 lbs. new potatoes, 1 red cabbage, 1 bunch basil, 2 heads fennel, 1 bunch carrots, 1 lb. Italian zucchini, 1 bunch Swiss chard, 5 Shiro plums

AUGUST: 3 ears sweet corn, 1 watermelon, 1 cantaloupe, 1 pint cherry tomatoes, 1 lb. summer squash, 1/2 lb. arugula, 1/2 lb. green beans, 1 lb. Asian pears

SEPTEMBER: 3 red peppers, 1 bunch beets, 2 lbs. fingerling potatoes, 3 yellow onions, 2 stalks celery, 2 heads Little Gem lettuce, 3/4 lb. Romano beans, 1 lb. Concord grapes

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER: 2 leeks, 1 butternut squash, 2 lbs. parsnips, 1 head cauliflower, 1 head broccoli, 1 head escarole, 1/2 lb. spinach, 2 daikon radishes, 2 Bosc pears

​Going out of town? If you can't make it one week, consider having a friend pick up the share for you.  They will love you for it!  Alternatively, we can give you a one time credit to use at our farmers market stand in Seattle.

Rawley in the greenhouse harvesting Gold Medal heirloom tomatoes. Photo credit: Molly Goren, PCC Farmland Trust

FULL CSA SHARE:

• Seattle pickup: $540 for 20 weeks
• On farm pickup: $500 for 20 weeks

HALF CSA SHARE

• Seattle pickup: $280 for 10 weeks
• On farm pickup: $260 for 10 weeks

• Half share picks up every other week

EGG SHARE (either site):

• ​$160 for 1 dozen per week
• or $85 for half dozen per week
• (Half Share members pay 1/2 the above egg prices)

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Flower share: $120 for 10 weeks of flowers (includes sales tax)

• Offered for 10 of the 20 weeks during peak flower season
• (Half share members get 5 bouquets for $60)
• Flowers are grown by our former intern Alyssa O'Sullivan of Sweet Alyssum Farm on Vashon Island.  Your investment helps support her first year farming on a brand new property!

HOW TO SIGN UP:
Our CSA is full for 2020.  If you have any questions, or would like to join a mailing list about next year's CSA, email Rawley: earlybirdfarmer@gmail.com