H-W Organic Farms

 CSA Guidelines  

CSA is a model that provides an economic and social alternative to our conventional system of food production, distribution, and consumption.

With CSA, food does not travel an average of 1500 miles from field to table. It is eaten close to where it is grown. CSA farmers grow food, not commodities. They grow for people they know, not for distant markets.

            CSA is a local institution. It provides fresh food that is minimally processed and packaged. It provides people with a renewed awareness of there natural environment as well as the needs and abilities of local residents, farmers and non-farmers alike.

CSA works to build relationships based on shared responsibility and trust – relationships that return culture to agriculture and that attend to long-term sustainability of the bio region and to our land.

H-W Farms CSA (HWFCSA) is following the traditional CSA model of a farmer and shareholders working together in the gardens to grow healthy vegetables and get the to the members in the freshest condition as possible. HWFCSA has a resident farmers-Master Farmer who will perform most of the work while also depending on the members to assist with jobs that are just too time consuming to be handled alone. Example of jobs that will need assistance: laying down mulch in the spring, weeding, planting and picking when crops come in heavy.