What Is a CSA?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and is a way of linking farmers directly with the people who want to eat the freshly harvested food farmers grow.  In exchange for an upfront payment, CSA members receive a "share" of the farm's harvest.  Our Farmhouse Table CSA is a cooperative program bringing fresh produce into downtown Wenatchee from almost 40 regional small farms.  It creates a wider variety of fresh food for the consumer while supporting small and micro farms that sometimes produce only 1 or 2 specialty crops.  Community Supported Agriculture is a great way to help build healthy farms, healthy local economies, and healthy people!

How does it work?

CSA is sometimes called a "subscription" or a "box" program. As a member, each week you'll take home a box of the freshest, in-season produce, all of it grown on local farms from Wenatchee, Cashmere, Leavenworth, Chelan, Quincy and Okanogan.  The produce is harvested on Tuesdays and delivered to the warehouse up at Wenatchee Valley College for cooling overnight.  On Wednesday and Thursday mornings, groups of CSA volunteers show up at the college and carefully pack up each subscriber's box.  You pick up your box that afternoon at Farmhouse Table Produce Market located downtown at 10 North Mission Street or have it delivered directly to your home or office. 

Each box comes with a newsletter full of recipes, cooking and storage tips, articles about the farmers and interesting local food news.  The staff at Farmhouse Table can answer any questions you might have and help you stock up on other locally produced foods like organic meats, farm-fresh eggs, handmade cheeses, milk, grains and bread and much more. 

The fruit and vegetables are fresh, picked already ripe and at their nutritional peak.  Your family is guaranteed the freshest, most delicious produce available.

To subscribe, simply click here to download and print out a more detailed subscription form.  You select the size box you prefer, add any extra options like eggs, fresh flowers, weekly salad greens or a cookbook, total it all up and write out a check to:

Farmhouse Table CSA

P.O. Box 5414

Wenatchee, WA  98807

To reserve your spot in the CSA program, return your completed form and a down payment of $100.  Full payment will be due by June 1st.

Want to know more about how you can become a CSA subscriber? 

Stop by the Farmhouse Table Produce Market at 10 North Mission Street in Wenatchee to pick up a brochure with all the details about our CSA program.  Or you can click here and download a copy to print out at home.  (It's designed for 8.5" x 14" paper.)

A simpler black and white version is also available here.

Check out our listing on LocalHarvest.com. It's a great website for anyone looking for local farms, retail food outlets, CSA programs and much more. 

Contact our CSA Coordinator, Mike Cochran at mike@communityfarmconnection.org or leave a message for him at the shop at (509) 888-3010 if you have questions or would like to help volunteer.  Packing boxes is a lot of fun and you can receive a discount on the price of your share. 

What's In a Box?

In spring, your box will be heavy with fresh greens, baby lettuce, asparagus, spinach, cabbage, radishes, peas, rhubarb, green onions, garlic scapes, cherries, apricots, beets and strawberries.

In summer, you can expect tomatoes, corn, eggplant, peppers, carrots, green beans, summer squash, zucchini, lettuces, kale, sweet onions, garlic, peaches, plums, pluots and summer apples.

In the fall, your box is overloaded with everything as harvest is in its peak, but as fall moves towards winter you'll receive more root vegetables like carrots, beets, potatoes, plus winter squashes, dried beans, onions, garlic, kale and collards, nuts, apples, pears, and much more.

Kids love to help unpack the CSA box....it's like unwrapping a big present every week!