What we love most about our CSA is the community around it. What brings people together better than food?
People join CSAs for many reasons. Many people want to eat healthier food, and CSA is a way to ensure that they bring wholesome vegetables into their kitchens each week. Many people want to reduce their carbon footprint and promote a healthy local economy - eating food from a local farm is an excellent way to do this. Each year, members tell us that joining the CSA encouraged them to cook meals regularly, enjoy more time with friends and family, made them feel happier and healthier overall, and inspired them to eat vegetables for breakfast!
And, of course, as everyone joins a CSA knows or comes to find out, fresh local produce tastes really really good.
People join CSAs for many reasons. Many people want to eat healthier food, and CSA is a way to ensure that they bring wholesome vegetables into their kitchens each week. Many people want to reduce their carbon footprint and promote a healthy local economy - eating food from a local farm is an excellent way to do this. Each year, members tell us that joining the CSA encouraged them to cook meals regularly, enjoy more time with friends and family, made them feel happier and healthier overall, and inspired them to eat vegetables for breakfast!
And, of course, as everyone joins a CSA knows or comes to find out, fresh local produce tastes really really good.
How does Plowbreak Farm's CSA work?
As a CSA member with a family share membership, you pay $25 per week for 23 weeks of fresh, local produce - at least 10-12 types each week - for a total cost of $575 for a family share. Per adult, that's a cost of only $12.50 per week, and children under 17 are included free. We also offer single-adult shares (for one-adult households only).
Our flagship free choice CSA pick up is held at The Westy, in Ithaca's West End. It's a market-style setting (pictured above), and members have the flexibility to choose which vegetables to take home that week. Read more about free choice in our CSA member guide. We are not able to split family shares among separate households.
Our flagship free choice CSA pick up is held at The Westy, in Ithaca's West End. It's a market-style setting (pictured above), and members have the flexibility to choose which vegetables to take home that week. Read more about free choice in our CSA member guide. We are not able to split family shares among separate households.
What vegetables are in a typical share?
CSA shares vary depending on the season. On a typical week, we offer our members 10 to 12 different types of produce, a range of salad greens, cooking greens, crunchy roots, cooking roots, onions, tomatoes, squash - the list goes on.
Here is a list of common items we bring to distribution, in no particular order:
Here is a list of common items we bring to distribution, in no particular order:
lettuce ● kale ● Swiss chard ● stir fry greens mix ● onions ● garlic scapes ● green garlic ● potatoes ●
tomatoes ● sweet peppers ● hot peppers ● radish ● hakurei turnip ● arugula ● bok choy ● cabbage ● winter squash ● basil ● summer squash ● eggplant ● melons ● kohlrabi ● scallions ● eggplant ● beets
tomatoes ● sweet peppers ● hot peppers ● radish ● hakurei turnip ● arugula ● bok choy ● cabbage ● winter squash ● basil ● summer squash ● eggplant ● melons ● kohlrabi ● scallions ● eggplant ● beets
Is your produce safe to eat?
We are a Certified Naturally Grown farm, which means are committed to sustainability, growing everything with organic practices while promoting healthy natural habitats around the farm, cover cropping, and building natural fertility with compost.
Do you offer add-on shares?
CSA members who pick up at The Westy can add on local flowers, meat, bread, mushrooms and sheeps' milk dairy shares from our partner farms. Add-on shares are handled by the individual farm and delivered to the Westy location only, and members can sign up or find more information by contacting each farm.
Choose one of three convenient pick-up options.
The Westy, IthacaOur flagship free-choice pick-up
at a fun beer garden in the heart of Ithaca, NY 4:30-7:30, Thursdays from June-November |
Ithaca College, IthacaBoxed shares for pick up
on Wednesdays in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center 2-5:30, Wednesdays from June-November |
Plowbreak Farm, HectorBoxed shares for pick up
in Hector in our farm's cooler 2-7, Wednesdays from June-November |
Thinking about joining? Pease read our member guide before signing up!
It's easy to sign-up and pay online, or with a check.
Plowbreak Farm・4106 Covert Road, Hector NY 14818 ・ (508) 274-1375//(845) 594-7126
