Health & Fitness
CSA Affordable Organic Local Produce Limited Shares Available
Direct from an NJ Organic farmer to you, 24 weeks of fresh, local, organic produce, $34.00 for a Basic and $41.25 a week for Premium!
24 weeks - LIMITED SHARES AVAILABLE!
Weekly Pick Ups June 9 - November 17
$41.25 weekly Premium Share
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$34.00 weekly Basic Share
$27.50 weekly Pre-Bagged Share
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*Fruit, eggs, mushrooms and flower shares are available at an additional charge and can be bought separately.
If you’re unfamiliar with a CSA, it stands for “Community Supported Agriculture.” It’s a farm where individuals purchase a “crop share” during the winter and early spring before the season begins. Then, throughout the growing season, share members pick up their just harvested shares at a pre-determined location. Members financially support the farmer in advance to grow fresh organic vegetables for them in the upcoming growing season.
Why join a local CSA?
Pesticide and chemical-free produce at a lower cost than the grocery store. I calculated a few years ago that being part of a CSA saved my family roughly $1,00 that year compared to if I had been buying the same organic produce at the store! That was enough to sell me and literally made chemical-free produce affordable for my family.Feeding myself and my family chemical-free produce. The pesticides and fertilizers used in conventional farming are carcinogenic (cancer-causing) and endocrine disruptors (i.e., your hormones). On a greater scale, this translates into increased mortality and morbidity within the community and the resulting medical expense and loss of labor. The privilege of eating vibrant, just-harvested produce.If you’re a part of a CSA, say goodbye to wilted greens and tasteless tomatoes. Your produce will be harvested when it’s ripe and, in most cases, find its way into your kitchen within a day of being picked. This means better flavor and more nutrient-rich produce. Access to heirlooms and more unusual produce varieties, and the fun of trying new things!The ability to get to know your farmers and develop a relationship of trust with those that nourish your family. Creating a relationship with the earth for yourself and the next generation, outside of structured parks and playgrounds, is good for cognitive development and happiness.Creating an understanding of what real food is and its production value for yourself and the next generation means better nutrition choices and health throughout your family’s life.
Pick-ups in Red Bank, Middletown, Howell, Spring Lake, Ocean Grove, W Belmar, Westfield, Staten Island, Matawan, Fairlawn, Morristown, Montclair, Cedar Grove, Bloomfield, and Newark.
Contact Therese - NJOrganicCSA@gmail.com
Middletown, NJ middletownCSA@gmail.com
Ocean Grove, NJ OceanGroveCSA@gmail.com
Red Bank, NJ Redbankcsa@gmail.com
Howell, NJ HowellCSA@Gmail.com
West Belmar, NJ jtralkarn@aol.com
Matawan, NJ slbmann9@gmail.com
Bloomfield-Montclair CSA has three sites - 86 Llewellyn Rd and 15 Parkway, both in Montclair, NJ, and 96 Bowden Rd in Cedar Grove, NJ. BloomfieldMontclairCSA@gmail.com
Newark, NJ eve@csanewark.com
Fairlawn, NJ Glenrockfairlawncsa@gmail.com
Westfield, NJ westfieldcsa@gmail.com
Morristown/Morris Plains, NJ morristownorganiccsa@gmail.com
Staten Island, NY statenislandcsa@gmail.com
