CSAs are a partnership between farmers and eaters. This partnership takes the form of CSA members purchasing a share of the farm’s produce before the growing season begins and then receiving a share of the harvest each week during the season. Within this partnership is the idea that all the people are responsible for the care of the earth. Members of a CSA support the farmers as they tend the earth in a responsible way, while growing the highest quality produce. Farmers reciprocate by providing local, fresh produce for their members, fresh from the fields, at the peak of their freshness, flavor, and nutrition.
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Tuesday late afternoon you have lots of options:
Wednesday home delivery within Springfield City limits, and outside city limits within 3 miles including downtown Nixa and Ozark
You are welcome to pay week to week, or you can pay the entire balance up front, which really helps us on the farm by giving us a nest egg to operate with in the early season, when we need to purchase labor, seed, fertilizer, fuel, propane, greenhouse plastic, repair packsheds, and a hundred other things that cost money, but don't immediately generate income.
Yes, that is the idea behind CSA, but we are understanding and sometime things come up in life. Just let us know and we can help you cancel and get a refund for remaining season.
We ask for our CSA members to contribute 12 hours a season, this can be filled by multiple members of a family, and we love having kiddos out learning about where their food comes from. That said, we run an honor system, you sign up online and you would count the hours of those who can contribute meaningful work. If you can’t work, you can buy out at any time for $100 season
Our Full Grocery Shares are value based, so you take home a share based on your preferences of veggies, fruit, eggs, ferments, bread, cheese, or occasional meat. At signup you rate your preferences on each of the items, and your share will include the items you most want when they are available.
At sign up just note that you never want to see that in your share, and you won’t!
Every week you will get an email that says this is what we are planning to put in your share. At this point if you want to change any items you can before the shares are finalized, you can even add extra items for when you are throwing a big party and you need extra of anything.
Yes, just let us know and we can make the change for you
Flower Bouquets, Honey, Coffee, Terrell Creek Cheese, Grass-fed Beef, Ferments from Fairshare farms, Farm-raised Pork, and Pasture Raised Chickens.
CSAs help support viable local agriculture, preserve local farmland and contribute to a healthy local economy. This increases the health of our community, both individually and collectively, as we have better food choices, healthier economies, and a cleaner environment.
As a shareholder, you’ll receive your choice of fresh, contamination-free vegetables and herbs on the day of the harvest. You get first pick of our farm fresh produce and you’ll know where and how your food is grown. You get to choose what you get in your share, so waste is minimized, and you only get the veggies you’ll use.
As farmers we have the opportunity to make a viable income by growing food in an ecologically savvy way, directly supported by our customers. We get the pleasure of knowing who our product is going to and consequently feel more joy in our work. Lastly, we can focus on growing food and think less about marketing it. Our farm is preserved from development, and we are able to steward it for biodiversity, clean water, and clean air. Who doesn’t like that?
We hope that you find a renewed connection with the food you eat through our CSA farm. It should be noted that we are limited to what we can produce in this area at any given time and some people find eating seasonally to be challenging, but rewarding. Implied in sharing the risk of farming with us is the knowledge that under certain conditions some crops may do poorly. Pressures from weather, insects, or other pests can have an effect on our yield. To minimize this, we plant a large variety of vegetables, and every season has bumper crops even when conditions are less than optimal.
A fresh bouquet of flowers raised on our farm for you by our farm manager Kimby Decker.
Kelly Jones, of Garden Gal 417 bakes naturally fermented farmhouse sourdough loaves using Non-GMO, unbleached, non-bromated flour.
Lesley and Barry Millions at Terrell Creek in Fordland make the best goat cheese we’ve ever tasted.
Cackleberries with Rafter J Ranch takes raising eggs seriously, beautiful brown eggs fill every dozen. They allowing their chickens to pasture freely, leading to really beautiful dark yolks
Beef, Pork, and Chicken