CSA Box | 2024 Programs
CSA Program 2024 – Explore Local and Support Community
Are you passionate about incorporating more local food onto your plate while providing essential start-up capital to BC producers for their upcoming season?
Explore the opportunity to become a part of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program this year!
CSA programs are more than just a food distribution system. It’s a partnership between food enthusiasts and local farmers that nurtures local agriculture, offers job security to our farmers, fosters environmental stewardship, and ensures you receive a share of the freshest, healthiest local produce at a fair price.
By opting for a CSA membership, you’re not just limiting yourself to an array of fresh fruits and vegetables. These diverse membership options extend to eggs, meat, seafood, and even unique offerings such as honey, herbs, flowers, and grains.
Embrace a lifestyle that celebrates and supports local agriculture and fishery, and discover the unparalleled taste and nutrition of locally-sourced, sustainable food with CSA program.
Read some testimonials to know what these programs do and who it benefits:
“This is my 3rd CSA experience with 3 different farms and by far the best. Thank you to everyone involved, and I’m really looking forward to next season!”
“LOVED the weekly emails. So good. The recipes were so thoughtfully selected and often incorporated multiple veggies from the box. I made many (75%?) of the recipes, and we sometimes did our other shopping around these recipes. Big kudos to whomever made those selections: you’re awesome.”
“Fabulous workers: helpful, knowledgeable, friendly, efficient and always positive. I always knew the safety protocols in place were keeping us safe.”
2024 CSA Programs
The following is a list of Vancouver Farmers Markets vendors (and friends!) who are running CSAs, CSFs, grain shares and more in 2024. Check back in the coming weeks as more producers announce their share programs:
Salt & Harrow
As part of our CSA program, our members purchase a discounted “share” of the farm, early in the season, and are in turn provided with a weekly selection of certified organic fruit and vegetables. Have a vegetable you don’t like? Don’t worry, each pickup location will also have a swap box.
Our CSA program runs year-round and can be purchased in 4 options, up to the full year.
- Large shares are every week from June 22, 2024 until the holidays and every other week from February 2025 to June 2025. Large shares are meant to feed a large family a full veggie diet.
- Medium shares are picked up every other week and our Medium shares will be perfect for a vegetable loving couple or split with a friend.
Each box is a minimum $50 value with 5% off from now until April 1st. Sign on for the whole year to get two weeks free! Cost range: $450 – $1665
More information & booking: https://salt-harrow.square.site/
The Sharing Farm
CSA starts around mid-June depending on the weather and runs for 17 weeks. Pick up is on Thursdays at the Sharing Farm (3-7 pm in Richmond) and in East Van (5-7 pm at 2928 East Georgia St). For more info and to sign up: https://www.sharingfarm.ca/csa
CSA Share Options:
- Small Harvest Basket (new for 2024): includes 6-8 different veggies/ fruits valued at $29/week ($493 for the season). To sign up: https://membership-can.keela.co/2024-csa1
- Large Harvest Basket (original size): includes 7-11 different veggies/fruits valued at $39/week ($663 total). To sign up: https://membership-can.keela.co/2024-csa1
- Friend of the Farm Share: flexible option for those who travel often on Thursdays or want to choose their veggies (variable share value). To sign up: https://squareup.com/gift/71QJ5QJTNX2RA/order
- Egg Share: We offer a share of Certified Organic medium-sized eggs from Rabbit River Farms in Richmond at a break-even cost for ourselves as a perk for our community members (total $131.75 ($7.75 per dozen)). To sign up: https://revenue-can.keela.co/2024-egg-share1
Seed of Life Farm
18 Weeks of fresh seasonal produce
- Small box $22.50/week (5-7 items)
- Big Box $30/week (6-8 items)
More information: https://www.seedoflifefarm.ca/pages/csainformation
Cropthorne Farm
18 week 3 different share sizes
Pick up Locations: West End Farmers Market, Kitsilano Farmers Market and the Farm.
Cost: Sliding scale with 3 different share sizes
Book here: https://cropthornefarm.com/project/summer-csa/
Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society
CSA programs:
- SOLD OUT East Vancouver Veggie Box: $500 / 20 weeks, pickups on Wednesdays 3-7pm at the Italian Cultural Centre link here: https://freshroots.ca/product/veggie-box-csa-vancouver/
- Coquitlam Veggie Box: $325 / 13 weeks, pickups Thursdays 3-6pm at Suwa’lkh School 1432 Brunette ave. May 30 – Aug 29 link here: https://freshroots.ca/product/veggie-box-csa-coquitlam/
- Flower Subscription (either Vancouver or Coquitlam locations): $250 / 10 weeks, pickups Wednesday 3-7pm at the Italian Cultural Centre (East Van) or Thursday 3-6pm at Suwa’lkh School in Coquitlam. https://freshroots.ca/product/flower-csa-vancouver/
Book here: https://freshroots.ca/shop/?swoof=1&product_cat=veggie-boxes-csa&paged=1
Nutrient Dense Farm
Every week from the heart of the upper Squamish Valley, you will enjoy a farm fresh bounty of organically & biodynamically grown seasonal vegetables. Through out the season each week you’ll receive some staple crops in your harvest such varieties of Greens, Carrots, Beets, Broccoli, Potatoes, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Onions, etc and some not as common vegetables for you to expand your kitchen experience! A farm email will come your way on CSA once a month with a list of veggies in your weekly share, a recipe about those not as common vegetables in your harvest, news about the farm life, and a little blurb on the planetary influence of the week.
Choose Summer Share size that best fit’s your needs:
- Grazer Share is a great nourishing bounty for a single veggie lover or a nice taste of the farm for a couple. A weekly variety of 6- 9 seasonal vegetables.
- Farm Bounty Share is a fabulous variety of 9-13 seasonal veggies for a Threesome or roughly up to a Family of Five.
Pick up Locations: Pick-up at Mount Pleasant Farmers Market for 20 weeks every Sunday June 9th to October 27th between 10 am & 2 pm. Share Add ons+ Eggs Share from Stony Mountain Farm choose between One or Two dozen a week. (Please note you must have a veggie csa share to have this addition.)
Cost: Cost vary depending on CSA share size between $540- $740
Book here: https://www.nutrientdensefarms.net/about-3
Sole Food Street Farms
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE
At Sole Food, our work centers accessibility for our farmers by removing barriers to employment. This year, we are applying this approach to make our CSA more accessible to our community by providing the following selections:
4 different price points, 3 different share lengths, payment plans, and a flexible market pick-up!
Cost: $200 – $820
Pick up location: At our Olympic Village farm.
Book here: https://solefoodfarms.com/csa/ or or email info@solefoodfarms.com
Sweet Earth Farms
Summer / Fall+Winter CSA Community Supported Agriculture: A subscription program for your belly. Weekly delivery of fresh vegetables, local cheese, pasture raised eggs, organic sourdough, fruits, farmer’s sausage, mushrooms, grains, and more from us and our local farm friends. Delivery to community drop points throughout the Fraser Valley and Vancouver. Our 14 week summer program is open for registration from February – April with deliveries from June – September. Our 14 week autumn program is open for registration from June – August with deliveries from September – December. We’re a little family farm, growing good food for good people in the mountains behind Chilliwack, BC. Our focus is on healthy soil, tasty food, happy animals and a sustainable lifestyle for us, our children and our community.
Cost: From $50-$82/week
Book here: www.sweetearthfarms.ca/summer-csa
Mushrooms CSA – Whistler Harvest
Whistler Harvest Chef’s Mix is a variety of our local mushrooms all packed into one box. Healthy and delicious. Inside the box you will find Oyster Mushrooms such as blue, black along with Shiitakes, Maitake and Lions Mane. Seasonally, we also add wild greens and/or wild mushrooms. A weeks worth of dinner creations awaits so don’t think about it and just order your fantastic fungi box now. With this incredible selection and value you will be happy and satisfied guaranteed. Size guaranteed to be at least 1lb / 454 grams
Book here: hello@whistlerharvest.ca
Seafood CSA – Skipper Otto Community Supported Fishery
Skipper Otto Community Supported Fishery is on a mission to keep independent small-scale fishing alive in Canada, protect our valuable ocean resources, and ensure everyone has direct access to wild-caught, west coast seafood. When you join Skipper Otto, you can be confident that your seafood was caught sustainability, that it will taste great, and that it will support Canadian fishing families. Order what you want, when you want. Choose from wild salmon, halibut, spot prawns, tuna and much more! Every product label includes a photo of who caught your seafood and their story. We’ll ship your wild and sustainably-caught seafood to one of our 100 convenient pick-up locations across Canada. Become a member by visiting skipperotto.com
Cost: Annual new memberships start for as low as $100.
Book here: https://skipperotto.com/sign-up-open/ or our How It works page for more details: https://skipperotto.com/how-it-works/
Charnwood Farms
3 options available:
- A 10 week vegetable CSA for the summer – $300
- A 10 week Summer Blooms CSA – $300
- A Bi-Weekly Summer Blooms CSA – $175
Book here – https://www.charnwoodfarms.com/s/shop
River and Sea Flowers
Two flower CSA options:
- A flexible farmer’s market based Flower Friend CSA
- A farm based Dahlia Lover’s CSA.
Cost: $100-500 for the Flower Friend CSA share and $195 for the Dahlia Lover’s CSA share.
Book here: Sign up online – https://river-and-sea-flowers.square.site/about-csa-shares or via email hello@riverandseaflowers.com
Valley Buds Flower Farm
- Breezy Bloomer – CSA flower share C$173.00 Breezy Bloomer is a CSA flower share for you, the bi-weekly bloom lover . We are preparing for a season full of beautiful bloomers 70+ varieties , so you will receive a beautiful assortment bi-weekly for 6 weeks starting in late July to early September. Estimated at a 28.00$ bi-weekly arrangement CSA pick up location Vancouver – Antisocial 2337 Main Street
- Full Bloomer – Fulltime CSA flower share C$341.00 Full Bloomer is a CSA flower share for the super summer flower lover . We are preparing for a season full of bloomers 70+ varieties , so you will receive a beautiful bundle of blooms weekly for 12 weeks starting mid July to the end of September. Estimated at a 28.00$ weekly arrangement . Tax included CSA pick up location Vancouver – Antisocial 2337 Main Street
More information: https://www.valleybudsflowerfarm.com/product-page/full-bloomer-fulltime-csa-flower-share
Container Brewing
Container Brewing X Hazelmere Organic Farm CSA
Cost: $325 starting
Book here: https://www.drinkcontainer.beer/csa
