Our version of CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is an arrangement where you pay up-front for a season’s worth of produce. Each week we present you a market-like display with a wide variety of items and you get to choose what you eat. If you don’t like beets, there is no pressure to take them. On the other hand, if you are crazy for carrots you can take as much as you like.

Over the 21 weeks of our summer CSA  the contents of your share change with the passing of the seasons. We plant numerous varieties of over 40 different crops and take care to provide you with a pleasing variety each week.

There are plenty of staples (corn, onions, broccoli, tomatoes), a fair share of the sweet stuff (melons, strawberries), a changing selection of fresh culinary herbs and a smattering of the exotic (fennel, hot peppers, escarole) to keep things interesting for the adventurous cook. Our nearby proximity means you get the freshest possible produce. Our market table system allows us to introduce you to, and encourages you to try, flavors, colors and textures of produce that simply can’t be found in most grocery stores.

Each week during the CSA season you will receive an e-mailed newsletter which lists the produce you will be able to choose from and tells stories of goings-on around the farm and in the wider world of agriculture.

Signing up involves printing and filling out our sign-up form (link below) and mailing it along with either partial or full payment to our address:

1301 County Route 31, Lisbon, NY 13658.

CSA Sign Up Form

Pickup Times and Location:  Shares begin in late June, with the ripening of our strawberries, and run approximately 21 consecutive weeks until the beginning of November. You may pick up your share in one of several locations:

– Tuesdays from 7:00 am until 7:00 pm in Potsdam, a block away from Canton Potsdam Hospital.

– Fridays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. in Canton at the Canton Farmers Market.

– Fridays from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. in Madrid at the CFC.

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Full Share

Each week you can choose a quantity of produce suitable to feed a couple who are enthusiastic cooks, a family with herbivorous children or that could be split between two households.

We will again include sweet apple cider from Kaneb Orchards, of Massena, NY, in one of your Autumn shares. A Full Share costs $693.

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Basic Share

Each week’s share, from June to November, is sized to feed a couple who doesn’t eat at home every night or a family with young children.

We will again include sweet apple cider from Kaneb Orchards of Massena, NY, in one of your Autumn shares.   

A Basic Share costs $462

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Winter Share

The Winter Share begins in November, just before Thanksgiving, and ends in March. You will receive a share of produce every other week during this time. At each of the 9 pick-ups we offer many cold storage staples such as various varieties of onions, cabbage, beets, potatoes, carrots and squash as well as parsnips, celeriac, rutabaga, garlic and sweet potatoes in a choose-as-you-please fashion. Special items like frozen vegetables and fruit, pesto, pickles, berry jam and sweet apple cider will be offered in specified amounts. Colorful summertime favorites like broccoli, cauliflower, peppers and our peerless sweet corn which come from frozen storage are a much loved feature of our Winter CSA. Your Winter Shares will be comprised largely of our own certified organic produce but a few items we offer – cider, cranberries and blueberries – come from nearby farms which use conventional production methods. The honey and maple syrup we offer are also produced by neighbors.

We offer the Winter Share in three sizes. All shares receive the same amount of frozen/preserved produce. The difference is in the quantity of cold storage produce (carrots, potatoes, squash, garlic, etc.).  

Small (12 lbs/share) – $468      

Medium (16 lbs/share) – $523

Large (20 lbs/share) – $572

Pick-up locations are at the Presbyterian Church on the Park in Canton, at the Agway on Pine St. in Potsdam, as well as on the farm.  

Payment: We know that Thanksgiving is a long way off, but it is crucial for the successful planning of this offering that participants speak for a share by mid-June. You may hold a winter share by sending us $20 or you may pay the full amount at once. Full payment, however you choose to arrange it, is due by mid November.

Shares will contain a combination of the following…