• We are now full for the 2013 season.  Thanks for all the love and support!

       If you still want to support us, we do have Fallshares available!

Big River Farms Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture: how it works

Our CSA members understand that they are supporting the farm and farmers-in-training. In exchange for pre-season support, CSA members get a box of vegetables each week throughout the season (we do offer payment plan options if you need to spread the cost over time). Veggies will vary with the rhythms of the growing season. Take a peek at our projected crop calendar for ideas about what you might see in your box throughout the season. We plan for a diverse variety of the staples you know & love, with some ethnic specialties from farmers-in-training.  There may be times when we are unable to give a planned crop due to weather, pests or other unforeseen events. In these events, we fill the boxes with what is in season and harvest the planned crop to distribute at a later date. By planning for diversity, we offer an abundance of vegetables and a CSA experience worthy of your support. Interested in signing up? Head here!


Neighborhood Pick-Up Locations

Check back with us as we will be updating this. 

Tuesdays
White Bear Lake South (35E & Hway 96)
Mahtomedi (WB Unitarian Church)
Stillwater (Broadway & E Pine)
Big River Farms
Shoreview (SVL inc. @ Lexington Ave & hwy 96) (Full for the 2013 Season)
Success Personal Training Studio (On Beam Ave near Maplewood Mall) (This is a site only for SPF Staff and members)

Thursdays
Mpls South (Butter Bakery @ 3700 Nicolet Ave)
Mpls South (Mayflower Church @ 56th-Diamond Lake Rd)
Mpls South - Nokomis
St. Paul (St. Anthony, Heath Partners Como Clinic Hwy 280 and Como Ave)
St. Paul (Dayton's Bluff Neighborhood, Hudson Rd & Wakefield Ave.)

Highland Park (Ford Pkwy & Fairview Ave)
Roseville (Dale St., 1 mi. N of Hwy 36)
Woodbury (Woodwinds Health Center @Hwy 94, 2 miles S. of Hwy 494)
Wilder Foundation (Wilder employees ONLY)

Share Options and Pricing

Gardener’s Special $35 (Sold Out For 2013!)
A mixed flat of your favorite herbs and flowers to get your home garden off to a great start! The Special will include a mix of 6-packs, 2” pots & 4” posts of herbs, flowers & specialty variety vegetables to be determined as we move into Spring. The Special is Certified Organic and grown with care in our greenhouse. Flats will be available for pickup at our annual Spring Open House in mid May, just in time for planting out!

Summer’s Best Veggies: farm $555/dropsite $590   (Sold Out For 2013)
18 weekly boxes of Big River Farms’ Certified Organic veggies, delivered to neighborhood sites throughout the Twin Cities and in Stillwater. What’s in the box each week will vary depending on what’s in season and tends to be lighter in the beginning and chock full of goodies come fall. Our Summer’s Best season runs from mid June through mid October - all members receive a CSA Orientation Packet in May detailing everything you’ll need to know about being a CSA member. Members also receive:

* Weekly E-newsletters sharing happenings on the farm, information about what’s in your box, and trusted recipes to try
* Optional MFA Report, a monthly E-newsletter with updates from MFA’s Executive Director, Glen Hill
* Invitations to our all farm events including the Spring Open House, Fall Harvest Party, monthly community workdays, Big River Slow Food Dinner etc.

Every-Other-Week Veggies: farm $310/dropsite $330    (Sold Out For 2013)

Want some of Big River Farms great veggies but a full box every week is too much of a good thing?  An every-other-week share may be the perfect fit for you! This is a great way to recieve the fresh goodness of our veggies and support our farmers with a little less commitment to a fullshare.  Every-other-week members still get access to newsletters and farm events and all the other perks of a full membership.

Fall Harvest Veggies: farm $95/mpls $105
An extension of the Summer’s Best, this share includes 3 boxes of storage vegetables and hardy greens
available for pickup on the farm or delivered to limited dropsites in Minneapolis. Boxes are packed and delivered on Tuesday10/22, 11/5 & 11/19

FruitShare Summer: farm $465/dropsite $475 (Sold Out For 2013)

FruitShare offers Organic fresh fruit, picked at its peak, packed carefully and delivered fast - It is NOT LOCAL. Everett Myers, FruitShare founder, grew up on a family farm just a few miles from Big River Farms. After years as a CSA farmer, and then a produce buyer, he developed relationships with organic family farmers throughout the country to bring their best Organic fruit to CSA customers. The Summer FruitShare includes 9 weeks of deliveries of the season’s tastiest Organic fruit, along with an e-newsletter sharing storage tips, recipes and farmer profiles. The Summer FruitShare includes: blueberries, cherries, 2 weeks of mixed fruit that will include pluots and plums and might also include nectarines, avocados, or grapes, 2 weeks of peaches and 2 weeks of apples and pears, some of which may be local. The Summer FruitShares can be picked up at the farm or delivered along with our vegetable shares.

Barter Shares (Sold Out For 2013)

We have a limited number of Summer’s Best and/or Fall Harvest shares available for work/trade.

We are especially interested in certain skill sets including but not limited to mechanical, foodies who like to create recipes and general office help. Each trade is valued and arranged based on type of work performed. For example, a barter of a mechanic’s services may require fewer hours than a barter of general office help.

Both parties will sign an agreement to the terms of the trade to ensure clear communication regarding expectations on both ends. We’ve had great success with this in the past and look forward to another season of trade relationships in 2013.