Introducing Our Salad Club CSA!
What Is The Salad Club CSA?
Do rutabagas have you in a rut? Exhausted by all of the eggplant? Are you swimming in summer squash? Ours is a unique take on the traditional CSA or Community Supported Agriculture share. While traditional CSAs can challenge our taste buds and force us to be creative in the kitchen, our veggies need no introduction. The goal of our Salad Club CSA is to be as convenient and accessible as possible so as to reduce any barriers that may exist between you and the very best local certified organic veggies available. For 20 weeks from June through October, we focus on providing you with a weekly curated selection of 6 to 8 certified organic veggies you eat the most of, which are often the ones you're likely to put in a salad. Think lettuce, tomatoes and carrots!
Why Join Our CSA?
- Organic Veggies! We've been growing certified organic salad vegetables for almost a decade. We manage our market garden using an organic, no-till, no-tractor, deep composted permanent bed system that focuses on the health, structure and biological activity of our soil, resulting in some of the most beautiful and delicious vegetables available in our region.
- Convenience Our lives are busy and I bet your's are too! Is organizing your life around a small pick up window of time not meshing with your busy schedule? We offer 2 ultra-convenient pick up options for your share. If you're local to the Honeoye Falls-Lima area you can pick up your pre-packaged share at our farm any time on Saturday or Sunday between 10am and 4pm. If you frequent the Brighton Farmer's Market, yours will be a market style share where you get to pick the exact kind and amount of veggies you want. More details below...
- Value You would be hard pressed to procure local certified organic veggies that taste this good at such a reasonable price from any grocery store. There's no sliding scale payment system here, just upfront pricing. We know how much we need to charge for our veggies to make a living and price our goods accordingly.
- Support the Local Food Economy By purchasing a share from us, you are financially supporting our farm when we need it the most. Late Winter and early Spring are lean times for most farms and we are no exception. Your support allows us to pay our employees, heat our greenhouses and purchase seeds and supplies without having to borrow more from the bank, which keeps even more of your hard earned money in the local economy.
- Shareholder Benefits
- Salad Club CSA share holders will have exclusive access to rare varieties of our certified organic herb and veggie
plants in the spring.
- Free compost drop off! Share holders will be allowed to dump their veggie scraps at our farm anytime during our
regular hours of operation. Our veggies become your scraps, which become our soil, which become....you get the idea.
- Invitation to a member only farm tour. Get an exclusive look behind the scenes before we open the doors to the public
for the season. We will likely schedule this event for early to mid-April when our greenhouses are filled to the brim and
we're all itching to get into the garden.
- Access to our private Facebook group dedicated to our Salad Club CSA share holders and Farm Club members.
Peruse exclusive content, recipes and gardening tips while sharing ideas with other members.
The Details
How Much Does This Cost?
Our 20 week CSA share program costs $500 which breaks down to $25 per week. To join our Salad Club CSA, you must purchase your share by April 1st! We will send you a Lighthouse Gardens Salad Club CSA card that will be preloaded with $500 that is drawn down each week which can also be used to make additional purchases depending on your pick up location. If you find that you are purchasing more add-ons than you expected, we can easily load your card with more funds.
What's In Your Share?
Each prepackaged share will contain a curated selection of 6 to 8 vegetables every week with each weekly share being unique.
For example a share in the peak of the season might look like this:
2 heads of lettuce, a bag of spinach, a bunch of carrots, a pint of cherry tomatoes, 2 slicing tomatoes, a head of celery, a bunch of radishes and a head of garlic.
For example a share in the peak of the season might look like this:
2 heads of lettuce, a bag of spinach, a bunch of carrots, a pint of cherry tomatoes, 2 slicing tomatoes, a head of celery, a bunch of radishes and a head of garlic.
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Heavy Hitters
One, but most often two of these veggies will always be in your share.
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Frequent Fliers
You can expect three to six of these tasty veggies be in your share.
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Intermittent Treats
These delicacies will occasionally be in your share.
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Pick Up Options
We offer two different options that differ in experience based on the pick up location.
At the farm: Share holders can pick up their prepackaged share anytime on Saturday or Sunday between 10am and 4pm. Your Salad Club CSA card will be drawn down by the weekly share price of $25 with the option of purchasing additional items like veggies or quantities not included in the share, plants, potting soil, etc.
At the Brighton Farmer's Market: Share holders will have the choice of selecting whatever they want from our market display. This option offers the most in flexibility in terms of what and how much you get. Your Salad Club CSA card will be drawn down by the amount of your total purchase.
At the Brighton Farmer's Market: Share holders will have the choice of selecting whatever they want from our market display. This option offers the most in flexibility in terms of what and how much you get. Your Salad Club CSA card will be drawn down by the amount of your total purchase.
The Nitty Gritty
When and how do I sign up? Salad Club CSA shares must be purchased by April 1st. However, the earlier in the year you purchase your share, the greater the impact your support will have on our farm. We are more than happy to accept payment via credit card, but if you pay by cash or check an extra 3% of your hard earned money will continue to circulate in our local economy.
When does it start? No matter how much planning a farmer does, the weather largely determines how soon we can plant and harvest. Our tentative start date is the weekend of June 20th.
Really want veggies traditionally offered in other CSA's? Don't count us out just yet. We grow those things too and you can purchase them on a weekly basis as needed. We grow other veggies that aren't represented in the pre-packaged share like onions, shallots, ground cherries, tomatillos, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, swiss chard, endive, green beans, ginger, turmeric, hot peppers, broccoli, cabbage and others!
What if you can't pick up your share? No problem! As we said, we know you're busy and we want our CSA to be as convenient as possible. We only need to know that you can't make a pick up if you choose the prepackaged pick up option at our farm as your pick up location. Please let us know by the Wednesday prior to your pick up day if you can't make it. Everyone gets a free pass but if for a second time you don't notify us that you can't pick up, we will donate your share to our local food pantry and charge your account for the weekly share value. Want to switch pick up locations? Again, just let us know by Wednesday of that pick up week so we can be prepared.
Have any questions? Feel free to give us a call, email us or connect with us on any of our social media accounts. We'll be more than happy to answer any questions that you have.
When does it start? No matter how much planning a farmer does, the weather largely determines how soon we can plant and harvest. Our tentative start date is the weekend of June 20th.
Really want veggies traditionally offered in other CSA's? Don't count us out just yet. We grow those things too and you can purchase them on a weekly basis as needed. We grow other veggies that aren't represented in the pre-packaged share like onions, shallots, ground cherries, tomatillos, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, swiss chard, endive, green beans, ginger, turmeric, hot peppers, broccoli, cabbage and others!
What if you can't pick up your share? No problem! As we said, we know you're busy and we want our CSA to be as convenient as possible. We only need to know that you can't make a pick up if you choose the prepackaged pick up option at our farm as your pick up location. Please let us know by the Wednesday prior to your pick up day if you can't make it. Everyone gets a free pass but if for a second time you don't notify us that you can't pick up, we will donate your share to our local food pantry and charge your account for the weekly share value. Want to switch pick up locations? Again, just let us know by Wednesday of that pick up week so we can be prepared.
Have any questions? Feel free to give us a call, email us or connect with us on any of our social media accounts. We'll be more than happy to answer any questions that you have.