CSA - CALIFORNIA STREET FARM

California Street Farm CSA – 2025 CSA SHARES SOLD OUT

CSA – What is it?
CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a farming model that directly connects consumers to local farmers, ensuring the farmers get the highest proportion of profit back for all their hard work. By purchasing a California Street Farm CSA share, you are joining a community of like-minded eaters investing in local, sustainable agriculture and a small woman-owned business.

Why you might like it?
You will receive a beautiful box of high quality, chemical free produce grown right in NE Minneapolis weekly (or biweekly). You will be invited to farm events such as volunteer days, weeding parties, and potlucks. You will be able to come to the farm whenever you want to get your hands dirty and hang out with pollinators. You will have influence, meaning you can give feedback about your CSA experience and we will listen. You will know exactly where your vegetables come from and you will be strengthening your local economy.

Why the farmer likes it?
The CSA model creates more stability for the farmer. It brings money into the farm in late winter/early spring when we really need it because we're purchasing things to get the season going, like seeds, potting soil, compost, and equipment.

Also, the CSA model brings the farmer and the vegetable eaters closer together in a community of support. It gives the farmer more flexibility and the consumer more agency because there is a real live relationship with commitment, communication, and understanding.

Share Sizes
Full Share = 16 weeks, picked up every week, mid-June through Sept
Half Share = 8 weeks, picked up every other week, mid-June through Sept

Boxes are valued at an average of $40/wk. The cost of each share allows us to pay our employees living wages.

Pick-Up Locations
CSA boxes will be distributed to the following MPLS locations on Tuesdays or Fridays.

Northeast MPLS (Violet Wine or Hum Yoga + Barre)
North MPLS (Camden Neighborhood)
South MPLS (Northrop, Longfellow, + Whittier Neighborhoods)
Other (You can request a new pick-up site if none of these work for you. We require 4 shares to start a new site, so talk to your neighbors!)

Tiered Pricing Options
In order to make CSA shares more accessible to everybody, we use a tiered-pricing model. The tiers are as follows:
Standard - covers the cost of a share
Sponsor - helps subsidize low-income shares
Low-Income - for folks who self-identify as low-income--no proof necessary--subsidized by sponsor shares

Questions?
Ask us anything - drop us an email at [email protected] and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.