Christopher Farm 2025 Richmond CSA

Thanks for supporting our local farm.  Our CSA will make weekly deliveries to Richmond on Tuesday evenings next season.  If you sign up, you will receive a weekly assortment of fresh vegetables all grown on our farm, recipes, and ideas for preparing less common vegetables.  Community Supported Agriculture is a joint contract that allows the farmer to support her or himself while providing good, nutritious food to a community.  Our pledge to you is to make every effort to provide a wide variety of certified organic vegetables, balanced over the growing season.  As you know, there is always the possibility of a crop failure, and this has increasingly become the case with the climate disruptions we are experiencing.  Luckily, different crops have different growing requirements, so hopefully lack of a particular item or items will be balanced with bounty in other areas.

In addition to our own crops, we add produce from Mile Creek Farm, another certified organic farm, to our fall inventory for the CSA.  This includes crops which we don't grow, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, as well as crops we can't grow enough of, such as Butternut and onions.  This expands the variety you receive, as well as supports another local organic farm.

Schedule
Deliveries will begin the last Tuesday in April and run until the end of October.  Should we have to start late, we will add a week or two on at the end of the season.  There will be two one-week breaks during the course of the season in order to allow you to eat down your fridge a bit, and in order for us to regroup.  The first one is typically in June, and the second in late July or August.

Deliveries
Our deliveries will be set up under the arch between the Richmond Friends School and West Richmond Friends.  Please pick up your share between 4:30-5:30 on Tuesday during the season.  If you are unable to pick up your share on any given week, please contact us in advance, or arrange for someone else to pick up your box.  We also have the option of leaving your box for you to pick up later if you let us know in advance.

 
Option 1 - The Fixed Share or Surprise Box
For those who have participated in the CSA in the past and like the challenge of eating whatever is provided in season, we will continue our traditional fixed shares, aka. surprise boxes.  We will incorporate a few choices at the point in the season where there is sufficient abundance to do so.  If you will be gone for part of the summer, we can pro-rate the cost to fit your schedule.  If you will only be gone 1-2 weeks during the summer, we encourage you to gift your share to a friend, family member, or a household that normally couldn't afford a share.

Share Size
Our regular "full share" size is intended to feed 2-4 people, depending on your veggie use. We will also continue to offer a slightly larger share for families, or those who eat a larger amount of veggies, and  a smaller share, geared towards one person, that is an alternative to splitting a box with another household. 

Cost
Small Share: 6 months $350
Full Share:  6 months $575
Family Size Share:  6 months $700
Full Choice Share: $300/$500

Option 2 - Full Choice CSA
If you prefer to pick which veggies you do or don't receive, we also offer the option to make that choice yourself.  This allows you to decide how much you will receive on a given week, what you will receive on a given week, and also skip a week if you plan to be out of town.  You can also customize the amount you receive so that some weeks it's less and others it's more.  These shares are available in the same increments as the Fixed Shares. Full Choice Shares cannot be purchased through our website, but must be purchased in person with a credit card or check.

CSA Payment
At the time of year when our income is the lowest we also have the most expenses.  These come not only in the form of seed, but also in a variety of supplies:  materials for the soil mix we start the seeds in, row cover to protect tender seedlings from the elements, propane to heat the greenhouse, wages for our hard-working farm crew, etc... When you make your CSA payments earlier, it allows us to purchase these supplies without stress, and to plan for how many households we need to plant for.  To hold a spot in the CSA, please make a minimum deposit of $150. Shares will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. The remainder of the payment is due by March 31.  Checks can be mailed to the following address.

Wendy Carpenter
Christopher Farm
5305 W. 500 S.
Modoc, IN 47358

(812) 459-4475

Shares can be purchased online at the following link:
https://farmnivorous.com/shop/ChristopherFarm

The Veggies
The list of available produce will include, but is not limited to:

Spring:  kale, spinach, lettuce mix, head lettuce, radishes, scallions, cilantro, arugula, carrots, Swiss chard, beets, mixed Asian greens, salad turnips, parsley.

Summer:  Most of the above plus sprouting broccoli, tomatoes of all kinds,  garlic scapes and garlic, onions, cucumbers, summer squash, basil, green beans, peppers.

Fall:  winter squash,  baby ginger, carrots,  daikon and other specialty radishes,  hakurei salad turnips,  and a large number of the items listed above