Organic CSA Shares

“Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA) provides a way for you to get the freshest, most nutritious local farm produce and to know and support YOUR local farmer growing your food. It’s like having your own farm grocer! We select the best quality fruits and vegetables for you every week, providing you 10-25% greater value over traditional shopping venues. We in turn get your support and commitment as a local customer to purchase our produce, which helps us plan how much to plant, how much extra labor we’ll need, and allows us to provide better service. CSA also helps with tight cash flow early in production, during the first 6-10 weeks of growing seedlings, transplanting, ground prep, etc that goes on before any veggies are ready for sale. By joining a CSA, your up-front payment and commitment helps stabilize finances on the farm when the $$ are all flowing out to secure supplies and pay labor and there’s not time or options for marketing those first spring crops.

Each week we will select 6 to 12 different produce items to fill your CSA share and pack it up in a box that you’ll pick up at the farm or in Keene. Other pick-up sites may be announced depending on efficiency. You also receive our weekly e-newsletter featuring the week’s produce, a recipe or two, opportunities to add extras to your basket, and other farm news.  We’ll also offer products from other farmers in the neighborhood such as eggs, chicken, beef, honey, bread and produce we don’t grow, that you can purchase as an add-on.

 We offer two share sizes this year: Small provides veggies for 1-3 people, and Large supplies 4-5 people. These shares include up to 12 (or more!) different vegetables at the height of our growing season. Because of the added certainty we get from knowing our produce is spoken for already, you share comes with a great discount!

For example, the average value of a large weekly organic produce share is $55.00. The summer share is 15 weeks long, a value of $825.00. But as a CSA member purchasing up-front for $701.00 you save 15%!

We understand paying all up front is difficult for many people so please contact us and we can work out a way to break up the payment. We accept cash, check, credit card, and SNAP/EBT. Email us if you want to discuss alternative payment timelines.

Bascom Farm is certified to accept SNAP/EBT payments!  AND, through our participation in Granite State Market Match, for every dollar SNAP customers spend on vegetables, that dollar is doubled -receive an additional 50% discount on any of our CSA weekly offerings when purchased through our subscription option.

If you’d like to pay for your CSA share with SNAP, please sign up online and use the coupon code PAYSNAP. This will allow you to checkout of our store without paying anything upfront. Then you can pay in weekly installments with your SNAP card at the farm when you pick up your CSA share.

For people who can’t commit to a full CSA term for whatever reason, consider ordering a Box of the Week. You can order any weekly share of either size any week of our growing season, for one or multiple weeks of your choice.