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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relationship that brings farmers and eaters closer together. Members have the opportunity to enjoy seasonal eating and a deeper connection to their food source, while helping local sustainable agriculture flourish. When you become a CSA member, you pay for a portion of the farm's expenses and receive a share of the harvest in return.

A Simple Gifts Farm CSA Share

• A share is typically enough for 1 - 3 adults (about a plastic grocery bag full), a large share enough for 2-5 adults
  (about a paper grocery bag full).
• Pick up at the North Amherst Community Farm, 1 mile north of UMass, Tuesdays 3:30-7:30pm and Thursdays 3:30-7:00pm.
• U-Pick crops for shareholders in our new pick-your-own garden.
• Shareholders work four hours/season/share: be part of the farm team for a morning!
• Weekly newsletter with lots of recipes and cooking ideas!
• Kids welcome at all CSA events.
• Farm-raised meat and eggs, and other local products available for additional purchase.

The UMass Five College Credit Union is offering no-interest loans for the cost of the share. Click here for more information

SuperShares: We are offering SUPERSHARES, which allow you to purchase 5 years of shares. This will help us develop needed capital improvements with a loan that we'll pay off in vegetables! Contact us and we'll send you information, including our business plan.

Winter Vegetable Share
Eat Local All Year!
$225 for 16+ weeks

2009-2010 Winter Share Sign Up Form &larr Click here for the form
The share will include potatoes, carrots, cabbage, celeriac, turnips, sweet potatoes, and salad mix from our farm, and beets, parsnips, onions winter squash and possibly other items from other area organic farms (Atlas and Red Fire Farm).
This year, we will also be offering canned tomatoes and sauerkraut in cooperation with Appalachian Naturals and Real Pickles. The tomato share is $75 for 16 jars, and the kraut share is $35 for 8 jars; get both for $100 even.
The salad mix will be washed to our usual standard, but the rest of the produce will be unwashed, due to lack of a heated space for washing. The shares will average around 135 pounds of storage crops, plus at least 10 bags of salad greens
Distribution will be on alternate weeks, Thursday-Saturday, self-serve at the farm on North Pleasant Street, starting the first week in November for the eggs, and the first week in December for the veggies.
Payment is due at time of sign-up