2024 CSA Membership

Click Here to Access (Paid) Membership Enrollment Form

Please fill out the above form if you wish to exchange cash/check/HIP/SNAP for your share

Click Here to Access Work Share Membership Enrollment Form

Please fill out this form if you wish to be considered for a work trade membership

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture.  In a CSA, farmers and shareholders make a commitment to share in both the risks and the rewards of the season. When farmer’s take on all the risk we end up with an unbalanced food system.

By joining a CSA, members support local agriculture, invest in the local economy and help to stabilize our agricultural systems.  To learn more about CSA’s click here!

A Few Details

• Our CSA Season Runs June ~ October. Exact start date announced one week before the first pick up
• Farm shares include 20-ish weeks of vegetables and herbs grown using using growing practices that align with a commitment to ecological and human health.
• Vegetable availability is seasonal and we pick your produce as close to the pick up date as we can. The majority of your produce will be picked the day you receive it!
• We work with Upswing Farm to bring you a wider variety of produce-primarily with the addition of root vegetables. In these early years of the farm, we like to trust other farmers to grow what they grow best while we work to build our own infrastructure, soil, community and all the produce we can!
• Over 50% of the industrially grown produce in this country never makes it out of the field. But not here folks, not here. We do not waste imperfect produce! We strive to grow pest and disease free crops-but don’t expect picture perfect produce every week. That’s just what’s happening down on the ground! A bug’s gotta eat! Know that we strive to grow the most beautiful, nutrient dense and healthiest crops we can. We are constantly working to improve our soil which helps us get there, but climate change is here, and stress on plants, just like in our bodies, will weaken immunities and that’s when we might see imperfections. But if it doesn’t meet my standards but is still edible, we may offer it as “Seconds,” or, it goes to the chickens and the horse or gets worked back in to the soil.

Pick up Options (Wednesdays Only!)

Cotyledon Farm 253 Henshaw St Leicester

Worcester pick up site ($35 for the season fee) location typically in Main South neighborhood…Please note that this option will forfeit any pick your own (PYO) opportunities

Our Sliding Scale Payment System

What is a sliding scale? It is a tool for building economic justice, and it requires your active participation. The majority of our members pay at the Contributing level, but if you can swing it, our Sustaining level members help cover the costs of the Supporting level members. It’s a beautiful thing! Read more here: sliding scale

Add-On’s

Flower Share: 4 and 8 week options for weekly, seasonal bouquets from Farmer Emily Day at Bell Brook Farm in North Brookfield, MA Enrollment opening date TBD

Bread Share: 18 weeks of a rotating schedule of freshly baked bread loaves from Baker Tamsin Lucy at Bread Box Bakery in Sturbridge, MA

Member Work Hours

All members are required to do work hours at the farm. You are a valuable part of what makes the farm so special! Half shares are required to do 5 hours & full shares complete 10 hours per season.

We will work together to find a meaningful and creative solution if you have mobility or time limitations. Please just let me know!

Family and friends may contribute to your hours by joining you on the farm or standing in for you! Children 12+ may participate and must be supervised. Please you the Calendly app to sign up for your hours, available on the website.

We understand your time is valuable and working on the farm may not be feasible. That is perfectly okay! You “opt out” for the hours you do not plan on working at the time of your enrollment. The hourly rate is based on a living wage of $20.00 an hour. Therefore to opt-out of all of your hours, a half share pays $100.00 and a full share pays $200