Community Supported Agriculture

Community Supported Agriculture is a relatively new form of direct marketing. CSA farm customers pay for a share of the harvest at the beginning of the year and receive a weekly bundle of vegetables and fruits throughout the growing season.

CSA's minimize some of the negative effects of more conventional systems of food production and distribution because it involves less chemical use, less soil erosion, less food packaging, fewer food miles and more crop and ecosystem diversity.

Eating locally-grown, freshly-harvested food is the basis of a healthy diet. CSA's offer you the opportunity to reconnect with the rhythms of nature by eating produce when it is in season--a way to reunite with the Earth and your community!

These CSA’s each have a limited number of shares:

Salute! Farm & Vineyard, 14317 Pleasant Valley Road, Woodstock
Contact at info@salutefarm.com or 312.718.0157.

Walkup Heritage Farm, 5215 Walkup Road, Crystal Lake
Contact at www.walkupheritagefarm.com or 815.459.7090.

Whispering Pines Organic Produce, Johnsburg
Contact at whisperingpinesproduce@yahoo.com or 815.353.2892

Bumblebee Acres, Harvard
Contact at www.bumblebeeacres.com or 815.861.2083

Green Earth Farm, Richmond
Contact at www.greenearthfarm.org or 815.403.7735

Freedom Organix, Harvard
Contact at www.freedomorganix.com or 847.910.1160

Angelic Organics, Caledonia
Contact at www.angelicorganics.com

M’s Organic Farm, 14101 Washington Street, Woodstock
Contact at msorganicfarm@juno.com or 815.338.8148

You can find information about CSAs, farmer’s markets and other direct-to-consumer farms across the United States at http://www.localharvest.org/csa.jsp