We are a Free Choice CSA! 
CSA Sign ups for 2025 open 1/1/2025

Email Lisa, [email protected] for questions regarding CSA!

 We love to grow food​ and hope you will join us!  Read below about share season, Sizes, CSA share examples, how the CSA works, and how pick ups work.  For a list of crops we grow CLICK HERE.

 THE 2025 CSA SEASONS:
Full, Main, Spring, & Winter
Full Season Share:
The Full season CSA share runs from June 13th, 2025 through March 15th, 2026. 30 pick-ups.  The Full season CSA share is a combination of the Main and Winter CSA shares.  After Thanksgiving the pickups are every other week, and thus vegetable item amounts will be double. The farm would love to feed you all year long! 

Main Season Share:  
The Main Season CSA share runs for 24 weeks.
For 2025 the Main season begin June 13th and goes through November 23rd (right before Thanksgiving!).   From early spring greens and crisp radishes, to summer tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, zucchini, salad mixes, and cucumbers; to fall winter squashes, brussel sprouts, and potatoes, the main season offers a diverse palate of vegetables!  The Main season is 6 months.

Winter Share:
The Winter CSA share and it runs from December 12th, 2025 through March 15th, 2026. The Winter CSA goes for 18 weeks, pickups every three weeks, 6 pickups total.   We offer lots of great vegetables in the winter!  We are known for our winter spinach and kale from our unheated greenhouses.  There is something extra special about those winter greens!  We love growing lacinato kale, spinach, chard, lettuce mix, and head lettuces in our greenhouses for winter.  These greens are extra tasty and extra special!    We also have 4 walk-in coolers with lots of storage crops, including, carrots, leeks, potatoes, parsnips, leeks, beets, rutabaga, shallots, onions, cabbages, beets, turnips, radishes, and more.  We have been offering a winter CSA share since our first season in 2007, and have fine tuned our growing to give you what you want all winter long!  The Winter share is 4 months.
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SHARE SIZES:
​Small – 6 items during the main season; 10 items during the winter season.  
Medium – 10 items during the main season; 20 items during the winter season.
Large – 15 items during the main season; 30 items during the winter season.
* A note on share size:  A single person should be eating a small share per week if you eat your recommended daily serving of vegetables.

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Pre-packed CSA boxes at the Dorset Market pick up. (Sundays).

WHAT IS AN ITEM?
Item amounts are by the bunch, by the pound, by the piece, or by the head. 
EXAMPLE of items: 1 head lettuce, 1-pound tomatoes, 1 bunch carrots, 1-pound onions, 1 head garlic, 1 bunch beets, 1 pound potatoes, 1 bunch leeks, 1 bunch radishes, or one head cabbage (items are by the head/bunch/pound/each)
SMALL SHARE EXAMPLE (6 items): 1 head lettuce, 1 bunch radishes, 1 lb. cucumbers, 1 lb. carrots, 1 lb. tomatoes, 1 lb. summer squash.
MEDIUM SHARE EXAMPLE (10 items):  1/2 lb. baby lettuce, 2 lb. tomatoes, 1 lb. sweet onions, 1 lb. gold potatoes, 1 lb. zucchini, 1 pint cherry tomatoes, 2 cucumbers.
LARGE SHARE EXAMPLE (15 items): 1 head lettuce, 1/2 lb. spinach, 2 lb. cucumber, 1 bunch scallions, 2 lb. tomatoes, 1 eggplant, 2 lb. gold potatoes, 1 bunch turnips, 1 lb. sweet onion, 1 lb. bell peppers, 1 head garlic.

​PRICING 
The prices below are Early Bird Prices for 2024 sign ups.  Early Bird Sign ups are 1/6/2024 through 2/14/2024.  Prices increase an additional 5% after Early Bird.
SMALL CSA PRICES - Small, Main - $670; Small, Winter - $270; Small, Full - $940
MEDIUM CSA PRICES - Medium, Main - $1,116; Medium, Winter - $540; Medium, Full - $1,656
LARGE CSA PRICES- Large, Main - $1,674; Large, Winter - $810; Large, Full - $2,484
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WHAT SIZE SHARE SHOULD I GET? A small share is suited for a single person; A medium share suits a single person who eats a lot of veggies, a couple, or family of 3 to 4; A large share is suited for a couple that cooks nightly and brings leftovers to works for lunch, a family, or a single person who eats a lot of vegetables and likes to preserve a bit.  If you follow the recommended daily vegetable intake, 1 person should eat 6 to 8 items PER WEEK.  Thus, a small share is great for 1 person.

HOW THE CSA WORKS: * please note for on-farm pick s we will be resuming the original "free-choice" system, which is you pick out your veggies at the farm (like a farm stand).  No pre-ordering!  Dorset Market CSA members will continue to pre-order weekly.  
We grow food and you eat! ​ The perfect relationship!  You sign up for a CSA and are guaranteed a share of our harvest specific to your share size and season length.   We plan our yields and planting schedules to ensure an abundance of vegetables for you to choose from.  Weekly newsletters go out on Monday morning with the vegetables for the week, a note from the farmer, recipes, and ordering guidelines and information.  You can read more about how the ordering system works CLICK HERE.  The online CSA "store" is your place where you place your CSA share order.  The link to order is the same each week, but will be provided in the weekly newsletter.  There are ordering deadlines, which are 24 to 48 hours before your pick up day.  If you forget to order, you will get a carefully curated "default" box with a great variety of veggies.  With the online CSA system you have an account which you manage your payments, schedule vacations (you can schedule a make-up week, so you never "loose" a CSA share!), and update contact information.

CSA SHARE PICK UPS:
Pick ups are quick and easy.  For on-farm pick ups you pick out your veggies from a display.  Each vegetable has a corresponding unit for the per item amounts (for example a head of lettuce or a pound of tomatoes).  You pick out your allotted number of items, based on your CSA share size.  For the Dorset Market pick up, you pre-order and we pack your CSA for pick up on market day.  For a list of pick up days and locations CLICK HERE.

PICK YOUR OWN:
We so excited to have members pick flowers, strawberries, peas, and herbs.
The Pick Your Own is open weekly for members during the summer months.  It starts with strawberries and peas (which count as items towards your weekly share) and soon comes cherry tomatoes and green beans.  We grow a variety of flowers and herbs which are a "free item" at one bunch each per week.  The U-pick flowers are a big hit!  

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Thank you for supporting local farms!  We hope you will join us in fostering the local agriculture community.  We are grateful to be farming and providing you with veggies!