Dancing the Land Farm is again offering our awesome Veggie CSA Memberships for 2020!
New ways to be a member!
- Standard Membership: Folks receive a Bushel or a Basket every week at the pickup location of their choice.
- Sliding Scale Membership: We're again offering our Sliding Scale Membership where those of us who are able spend a bit more to help support those of us who would otherwise not have access to a CSA membership. Last year we were able to subsidize 3 more families' access into our CSA program thanks to the joint generosity of us and our members! Yes! Let's see if we can do even better this year!
- Until we're sure about the COVID situation, we will not be offering a Working CSA Membership. Hopefully we can bring this back in 2022.
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We LOVE to grow colorful, vibrant, vital foods. We love growing rare heirlooms and unique, organically grown, always GMO-free, delicious, varieties of produce you'd be hard-bet to find anywhere else, (and we grow all the old favorites, too).
The Bushel is around $35 worth of veggies each week and the Basket is around $25 each week. We used to say that the Bushel was good for 3-4 people, and the Basket was good for 1-2 people, but everyone eats veggies differently. Some people thought that the Basket was way too much for them and shared their box with another family, and others want two Bushels a week for two folks! (That's totally us!) So I'm including the dollar amounts this year to help you estimate. But do please note that these numbers are an average that we aim for across the whole season. Some weeks will be less, some weeks much more. As a reference, in years past, actual averages have always ended up being a bit higher than our target price point, but that's one of the perks of being a CSA member! |
We have New Pick-up Locations for 2021! Here's the full list:
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Wait, what's a CSA? |
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a farm-business model where folks invest in a farm early in the season, (when we farmers have a lot of expenses in seeds, compost, tools, etc.) and then share in the harvests all season long with a fresh box of produce every week that customers can pick up right here on the farm or at a local pick-up location--many of which have their own perks! Being a CSA member is an investment in your health, our farm, all our local communities, this ecosystem we rely on, and the local economy that keeps our communities thriving. It says you're willing to stand with us as we do our very best by you, our lands, our water supply, and our future generations. And in return for your faith in us, we share the best of our harvests with you. And, farming is part science and part relationship with the ground, we can do our very best and still lose crops to pests, drought, flooding, and more, though the organic, notill/lowtill farming practices that we employ give us much more resiliency than conventional farming practices. Participating in a CSA means you're willing to stand with us through those downs as well as during the bumper-crop seasons. That support is crucial for a small farm's sustainability. We don't get crop insurance, it's not offered to us little guys. We get communities, folks like you, and I think we're stronger, and more accountable, and more capable of feeding people as a result. We give our CSA members a share of our harvests each week, through bounty and through trials--we go through the season together. Your boxes will represent what's ripening in our fields each week, right here, in Clearwater, Minnesota. All food should be this beautiful.
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