Join the Youth Farm for a culinary and agriculture adventure! Through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, you can support the Youth Farm and FOOD For Lane County, feel a direct connection to the land and people who grow your food, and receive fresh, nutritious produce throughout the growing season.
Click here to register for a 2024 CSA Membership!
What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) establishes a direct link between food consumers and food growers. Through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, you can support the Youth Farm and FOOD For Lane County, feel a direct connection to the land and people who grow your food, and receive fresh, nutritious produce throughout the growing season. When you become a CSA member and commit to supporting FFLC’s Youth Farm, you put down a good faith deposit before the season begins and we use your investment to start growing and farming your food!
How Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Works
FFLC offers a 25-week CSA membership option from June through November to support our work at the Youth Farm and provide delicious and nutritious local produce.
Step 1 – Sign up to become a CSA partner with FFLC’s Youth Farm.
Step 2 – At the start of the growing season, the FFLC’s Youth Farm will compile boxes of a variety of fun veggies for CSA members weekly.
Step 3 – FFLC’s Youth Farm will bring the boxes to your drop site at the same time and day every week for you to pick the box up.
Step 4 – Take your box of fun veggies home to cook fresh and healthy meals from scratch throughout the week!
CSA Membership Benefits
– Members receive a weekly box with a mix of 40 crops of fresh fruit and vegetables.
– Feel a direct connection to the land and people who grow your food while supporting FFLC’s Youth Farm
– Incorporate more nutritious foods grown without pesticides or synthetic fertilizers into your diet
– Receive newsletters from The Youth Farm with recipes, stories, and invitations to farm events
Cost
We offer a sliding scale fee for the CSA membership to make our produce accessible to more people; we don’t ask for income verification, and trust that you will pay as high on the scale as you are able.
| Size | Full Price | Mid | Low |
| Family | $775 | $675 | $600 |
| Small | $575 | $525 | $475 |
SNAP/EBT
We accept SNAP/EBT. CSA members who pay with SNAP are eligible for up to half off the cost of their CSA through the PNW CSA Coalition’s Double Up Food Bucks Program. If you’d like to use your SNAP benefits to join our CSA, please sign up here and someone will reach out to you with more information.
Scholarships
We offer limited first come, first served scholarships. Contact us to learn more. We encourage all who can to contribute a tax-deductible donation to our limited-income fund to provide CSA boxes to households who cannot afford the sliding scale.
Vacation Credit
Going on vacation and don’t want to miss out on that week’s produce? If you let us know at least one week before, we offer up to 2 weeks’ vacation credit at our onsite produce stand, or the opportunity to pick up a make-up box.
Youth Farm Bucks
We also offer Youth Farm Bucks as an alternative to our CSA. Pay $90 to purchase a Youth Farm Bucks gift card worth $100 of produce. Click here and scroll down to the last option to purchase Youth Farm Bucks!
2024 CSA Memberships – Sign up here!
Comments from past CSA members:
“This year’s produce was wonderful. I recommend your CSA to all of my friends. I will definitely sign up again. Thanks for all of your hard work!”
“You guys rock! I so appreciate the availability of DUFB [Double Up Food Bucks Program] to pay for the box, it made it finally affordable for me to get a CSA, thank you so much!”
“Absolutely love all the produce from Youth Farm CSA. It’s always very fresh, clean and so delicious. I rave about it to all my friends!! Wish you could provide it year round.”
“We couldn’t be more pleased with the CSA. Our vegetable box was filled with a healthy variety of different fruits and vegetables and encouraged us to eat better. Thanks to everyone involved—much, much appreciated.”
“It is so wonderful to have fresh produce grown in basically my backyard. Knowing my EBT gets extended, I’m helping a local resource, and feeding good food to people I love makes me happy.”
“Thank you so much for all your hard work. It was delightful to receive garden fresh produce every week, and also to be introduced to some things I had never before eaten. I used several of your recipes, and loved them. It was obvious that some care was taken to provide variety, and not too much of any one thing.”
