Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

It CSA application time again! If you are interested in a CSA Share, please submit your CSA application with a deposit of $50 to Garden City Harvest by Feburary 15, 2010. Download the application below or email us. Look forward to seeing you at the farm this spring!

Orchard Garden Application

River Road Grubshed Application(works for summer and winter)

PEAS Farm Application

What is a CSA share?
CSA is a food distribution model where you receive a portion of the farm’s harvest each week during the summer. The weekly allotment of produce is called a share. Different vegetables become available as the fields grow and crops are ready to be harvested.

A share feeds a typical family of four each week.

Garden City Harvest offers three CSA programs, the PEAS Farm CSA, the River Road Grubshed CSA, and the Orchard Gardens CSA . Our CSAs offer a way for people to connect to food, farming and a sense of place. Our CSAs are similar in the vegetables they offer, but involvement, pricing, and amounts are different for each program.

PEAS Farm CSA

The Farm CSA grows 80 organic shares at its 6.5 acre Rattlesnake farm. PEAS and Youth Harvest students help to grow these vegetables and flowers throughout the summer.

Cost:

• 1 share (200 lbs or feeds an average family of 4) - $500/season
• 1 flower share (1 bouquet/week) - add $40/season
• Pickup in town (see below for locations) - add $20/season
• Sharing Share (help a household in need participate in a CSA) - add up to $500/season

Mail your deposit check and application by February 15, 2010 to PO Box 205, Missoula, MT 59806.

Pick-Up: Weekly shares are picked up on Mondays or Thursdays at the PEAS Farm in the Rattlesnake between 4:30 and 6 pm. Produce is harvested the day of pick-up, washed, and set out buffet style on a long table before you arrive. If you cannot pick up your share, you may send a friend for it. Any produce not picked up is taken to the Missoula Food Bank or Poverello Center.

An alternate pickup is the Garden City Harvest office at 103 Hickory St (near McCormick Park) on Mondays between 4:30 and 6 pm for an additional $20.

River Road Grubshed CSA

The River Road Grubshed, located at 1631 River Road, is a CSA program that encourages your participation and connection with the food you eat - you can even roll up your sleeves and help out on the farm. We have two CSA shares: one in winter and one in summer.

The winter share offers around 450 pounds of late season vegetables that you freeze, dry, can, or otherwise store for the winter. Pick ups for Winter Shares will begin approximately mid-August and run into October. No half winter shares, folks, you will have to negotiate that on your own. 

The summer share provieds 18 weeks (beginning in early June through the end of Sept.) of fresh locally and organically grown vegetables. Additionally, there are u-pick flowers and herbs. Half shares are available.

Cost:

• Summer share (feeds an average family of 4)- $425 (+10 hours of work*)
• Half summer share - $235
• Winter share - $500 (+10 hours of work*)
• Sharing Share (help a household in need participate in our CSA) - add up to $500
  

Mail your deposit check and application by February 15, 2010 to PO Box 205, Missoula, MT 59806.

Pick-Up:Vegetables and flowers will be picked up Mondays from 5-6:30pm or Thursdays from 5-6:30 pm at the River Road Garden and Neighborhood Farm.

Orchard Gardens CSA

When you purchase a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share, you will support the Orchard Gardens Farm and receive organically grown vegetables weekly for 16 weeks during the growing season.  (Two weeks’ more veggies than last year!)

We strive to accommodate all income levels at Orchard Gardens, determinign the cost of your share based on your annual income. You are welcome to pay with an EBT card. Shares range from $260 to $485. Download an application here.

Mail your deposit check and application by February 15, 2010 to PO Box 205, Missoula, MT 59806.

Pick up your vegetables at Orchard Gardens - schedule to be announced closer to the season's beginning.

Veggies in our CSAs

We pretty much grow whatever we can grow in the short (but sweet) Montana growing season. This includes: basil, broccoli, beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, chard, chinese cabbage, collards, sweet corn, cucumbers, eggplant, kale, leeks, lettuce, onions (sweet and storage), parsnips, peas (sugar, snap and snow), peppers (sweet and hot), potatoes, pumpkins (jack-o-lanterns and pie), scallions, spinach, squash (winter and summer), tomatoes (varieties for canning), & turnips.

Benefits

• Enjoy fresh, locally grown, organic vegetables and flowers without all the work!
• Save money.
• Your participation in this program helps support Garden City Harvet's food donations to the Missoula Food Bank, the Poverello Center, the Joseph Residence, and other local hungry families. Last year we were able to give approximately 30,000 pounds of food to local hunger agencies in Missoula.
• Participate in an ecologically-conscious gardening/agricultural program.

Low-Income Options

We have many options for individuals and families with low incomes.

• Orchard Gardens has a low and moderate income options that are part of the application process. Please download that application here.
• Orchard Gardens accepts EBT payments for Farm Stand and CSA share purchases.
• At River Road Neighborhood Farm and Gardens you can work on the farm for part of your share. Please email us for more information.