Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between farmers and customers. Customer buy shares in a season's produce, and share the risk and the rewards of the harvest with the farmers. It's a great way to get fresh vegetables and fruit. Some CSA's offer eggs, milk and dairy products. (Listed in alphabetical order.)
Boyles Family Farms - We believe in clean food,sustainable practices,healthy communities,local economies,beauty, family, love,and hard work. Boyles Family Farms is a 20 acre patch of heaven on the plains of Colorado, where we grow vegetables, flowers, meat, and landscape trees using sustainable farming practices.
Cresset Community Farm - Cresset Community Farm is a biodynamic farm located beside the Big Thompson River six miles east of Loveland, Colorado. The non-profit Cresset Farm Development Initiative leases and stewards the land and supports educational, cultural, therapeutic, and social activities centered in farm life. Ursula and Lawrence Holmes have been the farmers of this land for ten years.
Grant Family Farm CSA - Our CSA delivers boxes of organic fruits and vegetables, pastured eggs and meats, fresh bread and fresh-cut flower bouquets to convenient pick-up locations in communities throughout the Colorado Front Range, Mountain Communities and Southern Wyoming
Happy Heart Farm - Happy Heart Farm is a community supporting Biodynamic farm and educational center inspiring community spirit through earth stewardship and celebration. Dennis and Bailey Stenson have been stewards of Happy Heart Farm for 25 years. Happy Heart Farm pioneered the first community supporting agriculture model in Colorado.
Jodar Farms - Jodar Farms offers all natural, free range chickens, turkeys, cornish game hens and ducks. Located in Fort Collins, our goal is to make sure our customers are as closely connected to their food as possible. Now offering 2010 poultry CSA memberships.
Local Roots - Located in Ft. Collins, Local Roots offers a CSA program in which members dollars make a difference. In addition to receiving fresh organic produce from July through October, a portion of your membership will be used to support our Farm to Family Program, growing produce for direct donation to area food banks and our Farm to School Program, helping students plant school gardens and educating them about how our food is grown. We take pride in "Planting Seeds So That Others May Eat".
Meadow Maid Foods - Located in Goshen County, Wyoming, we bring grassfed beef and all-natural vegetables to the Fort Collins Winter Markets and Drake Road Market (Saturdays, summer season). With our "farmers' market" CSA subscription, you sign up and select the vegetables and beef cuts that you want from the list that we e-mail to you prior to markets. Your selections come with us to market, ready and waiting for you. See our website for more details.
Monroe Organic Farms - Monroe Organic Farm is the oldest organic farm in Colorado. In 1936, our family established the Monroe homestead in Weld County, and we have been growing organic produce ever since! We see ourselves as caretakers of this land that we have come to know like a cherished family member.
Native Hill Farm - We are developing a "farmer's market CSA" for our farm. Our members prepay for their produce and can pick up their produce at our two weekly farmers markets. Get exactly what you want when you want it. We offer a large variety of fresh vegetables and focus on season extension. Please visit our website as we post information about this program.
Raindrop Retreat Permaculture Project - We will grow all the veggies that do well in our area, e.g. asparagus in May; cherries and gooseberries in July, strawberries in June and September, apples and pears in August, and maybe apricots. Also a variety of Value Added Products such as soap, skins cream, sauerkraut, fruit juices, fruit leather, chutney, etc.
Shire CSA - Shire CSA is located in the heart of Fort Collins on the Spring Creek Bike Trail. The property has been handed over throughout the years to those whose goals were to maintain the land as open space and have it serve the community.
You may also turn up information on Community Supported Agriculture by searching on-line through Google or Bing. Do know that new farms enter the picture all the time - all lists may be incomplete or out of date, including this one!
