What is Community Supported Agriculture?
Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a cooperative effort of food distribution, a way of linking small farmers with communities all over the country. Your early dollars provide cash flow for us to buy seeds, supplies and pay our labor during the off season. We are able to plan crops and harvests to supply you with an abundance of produce throughout the year.
Glenn Stillman has been fruit and vegetable farming for over 40 years!!! With that kind of experience behind our produce, you don’t have to ever worry about taking a chance on any of our variety boxes.
Celebrating 26 years of CSA!
What do our members say?
“We love that the weekly boxes include vegetables AND fruits!”
“Plenty of New England staples and the perfect amount of unusual veggies to keep things interesting”
“As a mom with little ones I love having access to a wide variety of produce each week. It challenges me to be creative in the kitchen and encourages my children to taste new things (which is not always an easy task). I also love having access to the newsletter with recipes in it and proper storage techniques (I need all the help I can get). The share is well worth its cost, and something I look forward to. Thank you Stillman’s Farm!”
Carolyn B, CSA Member
“The Stillman family’s passion and commitment to produce healthy, wholesome, delicious, and varied fruits and vegetables shines through to us. We’ve enjoyed our veggie CSA for several seasons. Love the blog and farm notes and outstanding communication. Also love trying all the different produce we get each week. I feel my family is eating better than ever. Thanks!”
Katie K, CSA Member
Fruit CSA from Stillman’s Farm for 10 weeks.
Exclusively fruit! A selection of our own fresh berries, peaches, nectarines, apples, pears, and melon every week sure to satisfy every fruit lover’s appetite. Don’t hesitate to get our fabulous fruit CSA and our regular CSA! Starts mid-July.
Celebrate Spring CSA bi-weekly deliveries over 14 weeks of local produce from Stillman’s and Still Life Farms! Every other weekly assortment of fruits and veggies from March to June, eat local, eat fresh, eat well.Spring CSA March to June
Can’t get enough tomatoes during our short growing season in NE? This share includes 8 weeks of beautiful tomatoes: red, heirloom, yellow, black, bicolor, striped, paste, cherry….
Starts mid-July
You sign up for a subscription of weekly* deliveries of your Stillman’s Farm CSA box/bag). You choose the pickup location from our list of weekly CSA drop-offs throughout Boston, Metro West and Central Mass.
Each week, we will hand pack a box/bag of fresh, seasonal produce for you. We will deliver your box/bag to your chosen CSA pick up location in your community. Please note, we cannot accommodate special requests for food preferences or allergies.
Love the idea of being part for our CSA but for various reasons cannot? We have got the perfect solution if you travel a lot, cannot commit to a regular pick up time, need flexibility regarding location, have special dietary restrictions/allergies to particular produce, don’t like the “surprise” aspect of CSA, LOVE buying local and want to support our farm’s healthy cash flow. Then buy our “A La Carte” CSA share!
*Check individual CSA product for number of weeks.
- Members who sign up early will receive store credit – to spend as you like on produce at any of our farmer’s markets. You can use it for anything extra (excluding meat, cut flowers) that might be available from week to week, or at any of our farmers’ markets or for bulk items when available. Store credit is offered in exchange for your early monetary support of the farm which is greatly appreciated.
- One Stillman’s Farm reusable bag. Using reusable bags saved over 25,000 plastic bags a year.
- Invitations to Stillman’s Farm events including pick your own (PYO) apples, gleaning and more!
- Weekly newsletters with info on the produce available that week, storage and usage ideas, as well as recipes to make the most of your share.
- Access to Stillman’s Farm to walk, browse, and even pick! Bring your kids out to picnic at the farm that grew their favorite fruits and vegetables.
- Gleaning! Only CSA members get the call to harvest what we could not before the frost.
- Support a local farm that has donates literally tons of food to local food pantries and charities every year.
- Help protect critical farmland in Massachusetts
Please note:
- Stillman’s Farm CSA Cancellation Policy: If a subscriber moves or has another major life event that changes his or her CSA produce needs during the CSA season, Stillman’s Farm would be happy to help by converting prorated CSA dollars into Stillman’s Farm Rewards (aka store credit) to be used at any farmers’ market we attend. We will no longer offer cash or credit card refunds. As an alternative, you are welcome to transfer your remaining shares to a friend or family member.
- Stillman’s Farm CSA Change of Pick-up Location Policy: Stillman’s Farm will be happy to make one permanent change to a subscriber’s CSA pick-up location per season.
- If you are unable to pick up your box, it will be donated to a local food pantry charity. There are no substitutions for dates or locations. While you are on vacation, or any other time you cannot get your share, you are always welcome to have a friend or family member pick up.
Stillman’s Farm is happy to talk to anyone interested in setting up a CSA pickup at their workplace. We need at least 18-24 shares at a given location. Our current corporate clients have found this a wonderful benefit to offer their staff – fresh, delicious, “delivered to their door” veggies and fruits on a weekly basis. Encouraging workplace wellness with community supported agriculture makes for happier, healthier workers!
Feel free to send us an email to nancy@stillmansfarm.com and we can send along a brochure you can bring to your boss and/or your staff!
Other Stillman's family CSA options:
The Stillman’s daughter Kate Stillman owns “Stillman’s Quality Meat” (SQM). SQM offers various meat CSAs. Please refer to: http://stillmanqualitymeats.com/
The Stillman’s son Curtis with his wife Halley, own Still Life Farm. Still Life Farm offers a winter CSA October through February and sells specialty fruit, mushrooms, herbs, and hand made balsam wreaths and garland. Please refer to: http://stilllifefarm.com/
