CSA Programs

C.S.A. is a program of mutual commitment between a farm and a community of supporters. It links people directly with their source of food, providing them with the most fresh, sustainably produced food; it gives farmers a source of income at their time of highest expense (early spring). Shareholders purchase a share in the season's harvest and receive a weekly package of food. (C.S.A. stands for Community Supported Agriculture or Community Shared Agriculture - take your pick.)

Blessed Bee Farm is now accepting members for Metro Vancouver's first Community Supported Apiary! Click through for details on how to get your honey share.

Abundant Acre Family Farm
"Sustainable Farming, Authentic Food"
Weekly Garden Box
Pick up @ House of James, in Abbotsford
Contact: http://abundantacre.wordpress.com/

Alderlea Farm
Location: Cowichan Valley
Contact: email or 250-715-0799

200 member CSA

ALM Organics
Location: Pick up at the farm in Sooke (southern Vancouver Island).
Contact: 250-642-3671 Website

Earthwise Society
Location: South Delta
Contact: Website

The Earthwise Society has a relatively young, agricultural farm out in Boundary Bay, 6400 3rd Ave, South Delta. This year we are taking registrations for our new "Harvest Box" program. Thus, we are providing a CSA sevice to our local community. And the harvest boxes are sold for a fixed price for a 22 week period, beginning in June.

More information regarding our harvest boxes can be directed to Dieter at: farm[at]earthwisesociety[dot]bc[dot]ca

Earthy Organics
Location: Fruitvale
Contact: Email

Edible Acres
Location: Windermere, East Kootenays
Contact: Lin Steedman and Oliver Egan edibleacrescsa@gmail.com or 250-342-7472

Falcon Farm
Location: Salt Spring Island
Contact: Garnet and Kerry Lee - 250-653-9070 or email

A small (6 to 10 subscribers) "Pre-paid for the season" vegetable box program. Clients pick up a customized box at the farm each week.

Farmers on 57th

Located at 57th and Cambie in Vancouver Farmers on 57th is a group of 5 urban farmers offering CSA shares for the summer of 2010.

FarmFresh BC & Farm Gate Sales

You adopt/We grow... beef, pork & poultry (Thompson/Nicola Region of BC)

Farmhouse Farm
Location: South Vancouver
Contact: Website

Fresh Roots
details here: http://freshrootsurbancsa.wordpress.com/csa/

Foxglove Farm

Foxglove Farm is now offering a limited number of shares in its CSA program. The farm share includes asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, salad greens, beets, carrots, melons, squash, tomatoes, peppers, sweet corn, potatoes, herbs, beans, cereal grains, and much more.

What Is Community Supported Agriculture?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) fosters a closer link between local families and their food. CSA members make a commitment to the farm at the beginning of the season by paying in advance for a portion of the farm’s products throughout the season. This guarantees the farm a market for its products, provides members fresh food at a discount, and fosters responsible relationships between farmer, eater, and the land where the food is grown.

How Our CSA Works

Unlike many CSA’s where the produce is chosen for you, our CSA is a “debit-style” program which allows you to choose the amount you’d like to prepay, which location you’d like to pick up your share (Tuesday and/or Saturday markets), and what produce you prefer to have.

In addition, to honor your commitment to the farm, we will add 10% to your total credit at the beginning of the season. Each time you pick up at the market, we deduct the value of your selection from your total. If you go away on vacation, you need not worry about missing a weekly basket. If you’d like to stock up on a particular item, you may do so as well.

On Mondays members will receive an email reminding them to pick up their produce, plus a list of what will be available. In addition all members will be invited to a special fall potluck event at the farm.

For more information, go to: 
www.foxglovefarmbc.ca/about-the-farm/csa/

Glen Valley Organic Farm

Location: Abbotsford
Contact: Details on website

Glen Valley Organic Farm runs a small Community Supported Agriculture program in parternship with the NOWBC Co-op. Members of the CSA become partners with the farmers -- they purchase a share of the crop at the start of the season and receive a weekly Harvest Box over 16 weeks in the summer. Our first season of running our CSA was in 2009.

Glorious Organics at Fraser Common Farm
Location: Aldergrove
Contact: David @ 604 857 9057 or davidcatzel@gmail.com

Now accepting subscribers for 2010 season. Drop off locations in East Vancouver and Kitsilano. Certified Organic.

Haliburton Farm
Location: Victoria
Contact: email

We (3 co-growers) have a Food Basket or Box program running out of Haliburton Farm. Subscribers have the opportunity to volunteer on the farm and help out every Wednesday of the month and every 2nd Saturday and find they are too busy and working themselves to commit. They pay $20 for a basket and pick it up at the farm every Wednesday. 2010 will be our 3rd year. We started with 10 folks and hope to have 30 next year.

Ice Cap Organics
Location: Pemberton. Serving Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and Mount Currie.
Contact: Delaney Zayac 604 966 7825

We do a seasonal variety of vegetables, all certified organic.

Kitsilano Farms
Location: Vancouver
Contact: Website

We have created an urban farm in the heart of Vancouver by piecing together a collection of backyard gardens around the Kitsilano neighbourhood. The people who own these gardens have provided us with the space to grow produce that we can take to market, or share with the community through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

Klippers Organics - New in 2009!
Location: Farm in Similkameen Valley. Pick-up in Vancouver
20 weeks of freshness when you buy a Summer Share! Egg Shares also available.

Kootenay Grain CSA

Makaria Farm
Location: Cowichan Valley
Contact: Heather and Brock at 250-597-3276, email makariafarm@gmail.com or check out the website: www.makariafarm.com

Nanoose Edibles Farm
Location: Nanaimo Region
Contact: Email

Pick-up at the farm. Certified Organic. $35 per week paid in advance for 16 weeks.

Nanoose Edibles Farm has offered CSA programs for many years. They are for 16 weeks, beginning in June and ending somewhere about Thanksgiving. Members pay in advance for the entire season. Each person receives the same products each week. We do not do substitutes.
There are approximately 12 items in each box made up of berries, fruit, salad materials, root vegetables, specialty vegetables and herbs. We have a pick-up at the farm.

We also offer another version of the CSA. We service buying groups of twenty or more families where product is delivered by the carton to the receiver for the buying group. The receiver divides it out into the boxes of the members to pick up. This also can include home deliveries to people who are not able to get to the drop-off point during business hours. The receiver receives a fee for their services. This is a very practical system, as it is easy of staff time and they are able to spend more them farming and much less time filling and labeling boxes.

Nathan Creek Organic Farm
Location: 9 distribution stops throughout Abbotsford and Metro Vancouver
Contact: 604-628-9544 or email

Nathan Creek CSA has been operating for 12 years, offering 20 weeks of vegetables each year. Now located in Langley, the farm invites all members to visit the farm and participate in farm celebrations as well as farm work. The last 2 years we have provided 120 shares. We make distributions on two different days each week and are always ready to add new distribution sites when groups of 5 or more people join and identify a suitable host location. Website

Pilgrim's Produce
Location: Vernon and Armstrong
Contact: email

CSA was established in 1995. The program runs 22 weeks each summer with two share sizes, for a couple or for a family. We grow not only a wide variety of vegetables but also, increasingly, more varieties of fruits and berries. We supply all the produce for the weekly box. We deliver Tuesdays
to a central location in Vernon; those in the Armstrong area pick up at our farm.

Richmond Urban Farmers
Location: Richmond
Contact: website

Running from July-October with produce grown in gardens around Richmond.

Roger's Organics
Location: Valemount
Contact: Roger Beck or 250-566-9794

Looking for new subscribers. Uses organic methods and specializes in sauerkraut and sauerkraut plus.

Skeeter Farm
Location: Abbotsford
Contact: Hannah @ skeeterfarm@gmail.com

Skeeter Farm grows a wide variety of vegetables on a beautiful piece of land sandwiched between the mountains and rivers of the Sumas Prairie in Abbotsford. Skeeter veggies are grown without chemicals by Amy, Jamie, and Hannah, three new farmers excited to begin their second year of farming. Our 2010 CSA Program will run for 15 weeks with pick-up locations throughout the Lower Mainland. And they have a blog!

Skipper Otto's Community Supported Fishery
Location: Vancouver
Contact: wildbcsalmon@gmail.com

2009 was our 40th year of commercial salmon fishing and the 1st year of our Community Supported Fishery. The first of its kind in British Columbia, we are proud to provide the freshest and highest quality fisherman-direct salmon availlable, and a fair price for all. We are now accepting memberships for the 2010 season!

Southlands Farms
Location: Vancouver
Contact: Website

Volunteer opportunities also available.

Al Tinka's Orchard CSA

Welcome to Vancouver’s first orchard-fruit CSA!

Tinka Orchard CSA supports the farm of Al Tinka in the Okanagan and ensures that he receives a fair price for his delicious orchard fruit, allowing him to continue to farm his heirloom fruit trees in the natural, sustainable way he always has.

There are a total of 20 shares available, each consisting of 120lbs of a variety of plums, pears, and apples. The fruit is available at 3 pick-up dates in late summer and early fall. All the fruit is grown by Al Tinka, in Summerland, BC. The CSA is coordinated by Sonia Strobel and Allison Bennett in Vancouver.

UBC Farm
Location: Vancouver
Contact: Email or Website

2010 will mark the sixth season the UBC Farm has offered shares in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project. This is a chance for members of the community to receive a weekly box of fresh, organically produced food, while students have the opportunity to learn about this innovative production and marketing system. Full details available on
the UBC Farm website.

Urban Grains
Location: Metro Vancouver
Contact: urbangrains@ffcf.bc.ca

Urban Grains is a community supported agriculture program based in Vancouver, B.C. Our first year of operation (2009) is a pilot project aimed at demonstrating new possibilities for local eating by providing Vancouver residents with access to grain grown locally in Agassiz, B.C. A FarmFolk/CityFolk Project!

Wild Flight Farm
Location: Revelstoke, Sicamous, and Salmon Arm
Contact: Website

Offer a subscription over winter, preferring a market-style set-up during the summer.

Yarrow EcoVillage Farm
Location: Chilliwack
Contact: Website

Certified Organic