Introducing Our Salad Club CSA!
*updates are in red
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 encourage 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 mid-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 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 veggies. If you're local to the Honeoye Falls-Lima area you can pick up your veggie purchase 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...
- Flexibility While we always offer a farm curated share each week when we have enough variety to put one together, members can always purchase our veggies a la carte so you get just what you're after. This is especially nice before and after the main growing season when variety is more limited or when your veggie needs just aren't as great for a given week.
- 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
*we will issue these as soon as our printer opens back up.
- 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 when you pick up your
veggies. Our veggies become your scraps, which become our soil, which become....you get the idea.
*out of an abundance of caution, we are going to suspend this service until further notice.
- 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. *unfortunately, we will have to cancel this event until we can safely gather.
- Member only newsletter. Each week, you'll receive an email with an update of newly available veggies for the week, all
of the goings-on of the farm including details of our restorative agriculture techniques and farmer musings.
The Details
How Much Does This Cost?
Our Salad Club CSA membership program costs $500 which breaks down to $25 per week when purchasing our farm curated share. We will send you your Lighthouse Gardens Salad Club CSA card that will be preloaded with $500 sometime before the growing season begins. In our weekly emailed update, you'll get an idea of what will be included in the farm curated share, but you always have the option of putting your own order together by purchasing our veggies a la carte in our online store so you get just what you want.
What's In Your Share?
Each farm curated share will contain a 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: Shareholders must place their order through our online store by Thursday night for pick up anytime on Saturday or Sunday between 10am and 4pm.
At the Brighton Farmer's Market: Shareholders have the option of preordering their veggies through our online store for pick up at the market or by making their purchase in person with your CSA card from our market display.
At the Brighton Farmer's Market: Shareholders have the option of preordering their veggies through our online store for pick up at the market or by making their purchase in person with your CSA card from our market display.
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 for farm curated shares and likely much earlier for a limited selection of early season a la carte options.
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 (at all or as often) in the pre-packaged share like onions, shallots, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, Swiss chard, endive, green beans, 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 Thursday 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 Thursday 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 for farm curated shares and likely much earlier for a limited selection of early season a la carte options.
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 (at all or as often) in the pre-packaged share like onions, shallots, eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, Swiss chard, endive, green beans, 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 Thursday 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 Thursday 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.