Join Our 2020 CSA Program

What would it be like if we sat down to a meal that helped reverse climate change? If the food we ate helped heal the environment, and ourselves? It would be delicious.

Join our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). We connect people with the food they eat, the land it comes from and the farmer who grows it. Community Supported Agriculture is a system that supports small scale farmers by guaranteeing a market for their produce, builds a direct relationship between families and the farm, and allows supporters to receive a premium selection of local naturally grown farm produce throughout the growing season.

WHAT COMES IN A WEEKLY BOX?

Each week, for 15 weeks, you’ll get a couple share or family share of our own farm grown super fresh and healthy produce: greens, root vegetables, fruits (like strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and fall apples!) and herbs. Your Veggie Box will change with the season, containing 7-10 items and providing you with an amazing range of vegetables grown with care using natural growing and regenerative agriculture practices. This is a chance to eat in a thoughtful way in tune with Alberta seasonality, and to discover new foods and cooking traditions. Our newsletter will supply you with recipes and ideas on how to prepare your veggies, as well as stories about the farm and programs. The boxes change through the seasons – in fall – there’s great harvest abundance, and during deep winter – it’s roots, cole crops and fresh greens from our greenhouses.

Come Straight to the Farm for your Veggies!

Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm (56311 Lily Lake Rd, Bon Accord, AB)

*Curbside pick-ups Saturdays on the farm from 1pm-7pm*

Pick up in the Edmonton at Get Cooking on Thursdays from 4pm-6pm!

2020 CSA Pricing

Main Season Registration Deadline May 15, 2020

Family Share & Couples Share Options Available

For curbside city pick-up at Get Cooking Edmonton, add $50 for a Couples Share, or $100 for a Family Share

NOW AVAILABLE: 12 Month CSA Options

*Curbside pick-ups Saturdays from 10am-12pm at the farm*

*Curbside pick-ups Thursdays from 4pm-5pm at Get Cooking*

What is CSA?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and boy, do we love our CSA Shareholders. Like many small farms, we rely on the support of our CSA Shareholders. As a thank-you for supporting us, you’ll receive a weekly box – bursting with freshly harvested produce – including a rare selection of naturally grown greens, gourmet vegetables and heirloom tomatoes. You’ll also receive our weekly newsletter, recipes for the produce your receive each week, and an invitation to learn how to grow your own food in our garden by participating in our on-farm workshops and potlucks, sharing in the learning and becoming part of our farming community.

Our CSA is a way for us to be able to grow healthy food for our community, while ensuring that we can also earn a living wage and steward healthy soil for generations to come. We aim to work together with our members to grow and distribute high-quality, produce full of the vital nutrients and minerals we need to live rich, full lives. We grow an incredible varietyof gourmet vegetables. Vegetables – including gourmet and braising greens, beans, peas, gourmet potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, lettuce, mustard greens, arugula, and fresh herbs. We also grow both heirloom, and unique heritage varietals, all non-GMO. We hope to be able to surprise and delight you, and share in our bounty with you.

We provide our CSA shareholder members with the freshest (picked that day) and most delicious direct-from-the-field produce. Our goal is to be your ultimate resource for farm to fork edibles, unique countryside events, field trips for all ages, and on-farm festivals. We offer on-farm harvest basket pick-up on Sundays (perfect for families), with a complimentary Annual Season’s Pass to all of our on-farm festivals, from Easter, through Halloween and Christmas, or a city distribution site in the downtown area.

What does being a Prairie Gardens' CSA Member entail? What's included?

The Break Down: Our CSA offers shares for a 16-week season starting mid-May and ending mid-September, with bonus Halloween Pumpkins and a Christmas winter CSA basket. A Family CSA share can feed up to five family members! We also offer a Couples share, which works out to 2/3 of a full CSA share.

The full payment is due when signing up for the CSA. It is important to sign up for your share as early as possible in the season for two reasons: to reserve your CSA share, as shares are limited, and to help your farmers absorb the initial expenses in the beginning the season.

16 weeks of Good Farm Food Baskets! The Distribution Schedule runs monthly for May & June; weekly from July through September. The season starts in April with a U-Plant Container Workshop at the greenhouses. There’s a special Pumpkin Pickup date for Halloween, and a Christmas Bonus Basket in December for a total of 16 good farm food baskets through the season.

Here’s what you’ll get in your good farm food boxes -from spring to fall:

May – A Herb/ Veggie planter for your back step to enjoy all summer
June – Spring greens and winter onions, salad fixings, edible flowers, dried peas and selected herbs.
July – there’s many types of greens, from bok choi to komatsuna, strawberries, salad fixin’s, beets and peas.
August and September, your baskets will overflow with abundance – large assortments and quantities of vegetables, baby potatoes, zucchini, carrots, greens, cabbage, mustard greens, tatsoi and beans.
September, you will enjoy sweet corn, winter squash, pumpkins, Brussels sprouts, root vegetables, and several varieties of exotic potatoes.

There is an important concept woven into the CSA model that takes the arrangement beyond just buying vegetables. That is the notion of shared risk: in a CSA, members pay up front for the whole season and the farmers do their best to provide an abundant box of produce each week. Weather and mother nature play a role in the arrangement. Bumper crop years mean abundance is shared. Drought means that the risk is shared. This past season, we offered many varieties of greens – even with the drought, & plenty of potatoes, greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers. The peas, beans, beets, and carrots were late – but eventually lovely. Sadly, the parsnips never did germinate!

Kid Friendly! The kids will love coming to the farm to learn about how their food grows, as you will also receive a guest pass to attend our summer festivals! What a great way to spend quality time with the kids! During the summer, enjoy the Kids Fun Zone, a Petting Farm and Mazes to run and play in!

What Are Families Saying About our CSA program? It’s 5 Stars! Awesome experience for the whole family being part of the CSA program last summer – will be having some greens, squash and potatoes as part of our Christmas dinner