2023 Summer CSA

FULL SHARE 
Includes 9 items of your choice each week. Great for veggie lovers, or people who are interested in preserving and putting up food for the long New England winter!

SMALL SHARE 
Includes 6 items of your choice each week. Great for folks eating a smaller amount of vegetables or those who want to supplement from the farmers market or grocery store.

Both share sizes run for 20 weeks (June 14 – October 28).

OPTIONAL EXTENDED SHARE ADD-ON
Experience the entire growing season! The Extended Share gets you two additional bountiful pickups on November 16th or 18th and December 7th or 9th at Just Roots. It will fill your kitchen with local produce through the end of the year!

Sliding Scale Prices

Our goal at Just Roots is to make fresh, local, organically grown food accessible to everyone, while also valuing the true cost of building and maintaining a just and thriving local farm and food system. As we aim to provide as much value as possible,* we price the Full Share at $800 and the Small Share at $605 to account for the unpredictability of the seasons and to show gratitude to YOU, our glorious members, for making your community farm thrive.

Each share size has a sliding scale that allows anyone to pay a lower amount if these prices feel out of reach.

If you receive SNAP, WIC or SSI or your income is less than 130% of the federally-defined poverty level (see eligibility chart in the next section), you qualify for our most reduced price.

Understanding the value of your CSA, we ask you to choose a price and payment schedule
that works for your budget. Please pay what you can to sustain your community farm!

*Note that even the highest price point for each of our shares typically sees a 10-20% discount from market prices over the course of the season! The exact value will change annually based on many factors (ex: weather), but last year our full share members received $995 worth of produce, and our small share, $730!

Need help selecting the share price and size that’s right for you?
Click on the “how much should I pay” section, or give us a call!

Need help figuring out what to pay for your share?  We’re here to help. 

Because of the reality of wealth inequality, Just Roots has created a sliding scale for our CSA, where some of us can pay more to cover the true costs of growing, harvesting and distributing the food, others can justifiably pay less, and each of us pays what we can, given our own circumstances. We’ve created this “worksheet” below as a way to offer some guidance for reflecting on what price point you may choose for your CSA share. We don’t expect you to fill this out and share it with us, or to offer any proof of your level of wealth. This is simply a tool for reflection as you consider your price point for this year’s CSA share.  

To use this worksheet, simply note all the bullets below that apply to you. Think of each of these as “privilege points” or reasons why you may have the ability to pay the true cost of the share while others may not. The more bullets you check, the more likely you are to have the ability to pay more for your CSA and allow Just Roots to cover the true costs of your CSA, allowing Just Roots to provide you with the food without seeking extra funds we provide to support shares for people who experience may inequities and don’t have the needed resources to access the fresh food we grow.

   “Privilege Points:”

• I own the home I live in.
• I have investments or a retirement account.
• I inherited money over $10,000.
• I have access to family money and resources in times of need.
• I work part-time, by choice.
• I travel recreationally.
• I am able (physically, mentally, logistically) to hold a job that pays a livable wage.
• I don’t have significant debt.
• I don’t have significant medical expenses.
• I don’t receive public assistance (SNAP, SSI, housing assistance).
• I am not supporting children or dependents.
• I don’t have immigration-related expenses.
• My annual household income is over $56,300 (median for household of 2.3 people in Franklin County)

THANK YOU for contributing what you can to make our local food system thrive! (And for getting real with us about how small decisions like CSA prices, can help us build a more equitable world!)

Check out our CSA sliding scale tool to help figure out a payment option that fits you best!

Income Qualifying Share Cost

If you receive SNAP, WIC, or SSI, you automatically qualify for our lowest priced share. Don’t have SNAP, WIC, or SSI? Determine if you qualify for the lowest end of the sliding scale by locating your household size and the associated maximum monthly income level in the chart below. If your household brings in less than this each month, you qualify for a $400 ($80/month*) full share or a $270 ($54/month*) small share.

To help create a more accessible CSA, we offer flexible payment plans unique to each person, share size, and situation.

We ask that folks not paying in full make a down payment of $110 to secure their share and ensure their commitment to the farm. The rest of the CSA payment can be made in three automatic installments, on the first of the month in June, July, and August.

See the chart below to calculate your installment rate based on the share you choose.

Payment Installments

A down payment covering the first $110 of your share is due at the time of registration. To figure out your monthly installment rate, find your chosen CSA share size/duration in column A and your total cost in column B. The corresponding price in column C is your installment rate! This is what you will pay for your June, July and August installments.

A CSA Farm Share provides a weekly, seasonal array of fresh veggies for you to choose from, plus access to the farm’s Pick-Your-Own Garden anytime Tuesday-Saturday during daylight! Each pick-up includes recipes, cooking demos and friendly faces from the farm excited to share more with you about the farm and the food coming out of its fields.

CSA Delivery

We offer free weekly CSA box delivery for anyone with limited mobility. Please only use this option if you have limited mobility that prevents you from attending regular weekly pickups, OR if you have high-risk health conditions. 

Delivery is limited to MA residents who live within 5 miles of downtown Greenfield.

The delivery will be pre-boxed with a variety of staple items featured in the week’s share.

Deliveries will be made Wednesdays and Fridays– we will assign your household a fixed day for the season based on delivery routes that will be determined a month prior to the start of the program.

If you need to shift your CSA to delivery, please contact Joshua at joshua@justroots.org or 413.461.0701.

Members may choose to come to any one of our pickup locations on a given week!

CSA PICKUPS START ON WEDNESDAY JUNE 14th and run 20 weeks through OCTOBER 28th!

All of our pickups are “free-choice”: This means we set up an abundant market stand and dependent on the size of your share you pick out a number of items from our wide selection of freshly picked produce! We will only make restrictions when items are in limited supply to ensure that everyone gets their fair share.  In addition to your CSA pickup time, you are also welcome to come to the farm once each week to harvest from the Pick-Your-Own Garden!

If you need to miss a pick-up, you may send a friend to pickup for you. All unclaimed weekly shares will be donated to meet the need of others in our community. If you are not able to send a friend when you miss a week, you are welcome to take extra when you return. Please let the Just Roots staff know that you are making up for a missed pickup– it’s helpful for us to know! Thank you!

Using your benefits

Choose Auto-SNAP: We require Auto-SNAP to pay for your farm share with your SNAP card. When you sign up for your CSA share, select Auto-SNAP to allow automatic payments for your farm share to go directly to Just Roots on the day you receive your SNAP dollars each month––convenient for you and great for the farm! This payment option reduces time at pickup for you, means you don’t have to swipe your card at pickups to pay for your share, automatically qualifies you for the HIP rebate and minimizes administrative work for Just Roots.

Fill out an Auto-SNAP form:  This form provides the DTA with the directions it needs to transfer the money from your SNAP account to Just Roots each month. Here’s how to choose Auto-SNAP for your farm share payment:

1. REGISTER to enroll in a farm share. On the online form, when you are asked: “Do you receive SNAP, WIC, or SSI and/or have an income less than 130% of Poverty, equal to or below the chart above?” select YES and follow the prompts for the SNAP option.
   
2. Download the AUTO-SNAP AGREEMENT from the registration form OR request a copy to be mailed to you. Send the completed paper form to Just Roots. We will forward it to the Department of Transitional Assistance (DTA).

For more info on HIP, and where else you can use your HIP benefits, click the buttons below!

Your autumn stews and holiday feasts just wont be complete without Just Roots veggies! Sign up for our Extended Season CSA and get two bountiful pick-ups of delicious wintery treats in November and December.

What’s in the share?

Shares will come pre-boxed, pre-bagged and weighed by your farmers and ready for pick up. In addition to the vegetables, we will provide you with a winter veggie storage guide and lots of recipes, plus special surprises in each pickup!!

The farm store will also be open during pick-ups for purchasing items, such as eggs, meat and honey.

PICK-UPS

November: Thursday, Nov 16th from 11am-3pm, or Saturday, Nov 18th from 9am-1pm

December: Thursday, Dec 7th from 11am-3pm, or Saturday, Dec 9th from 9am-1pm

PRICE: $150

Payment in full is appreciated! Or, put down a deposit to reserve your spot. All final payments are due at the first pickup.

SNAP/HIP may also be used! Click the orange button below and follow the instructions on registering using SNAP/HIP. Any questions? give us a call!

From June 14th through October 28th, our shareholders come to one pickup weekly to take home their shares. Our farmers harvest 10-20 different crops each week, depending on what is ready in our fields, and present them to our shareholders each week. Our members then choose which items they like, customizing the share each week to their own tastes. Some crops may be limited, and others abundant, depending on the week and weather.

Most of the crops are harvested, washed and packed weekly by our farm team, but in addition to these crops, we also have a small pick your own field for members to supplement their shares with.  Our pick-your-own fields provide you the opportunity to get out in the fields and harvest flowers, beans, cherry tomatoes, husk cherries, peas and other fun things. We do our best to keep the pick-your-own fields weeded and labeled and provide directions on how to harvest, what to harvest and when to harvest!

In addition to our weekly harvests, we also produce a weekly email newsletter with updates, stories from the fields, information on events or farm happenings and recipes. Besides in-person interactions at CSA distributions, the emailed newsletter is the primary way that our farmers communicate with shareholders and keep them informed about our systems, techniques, and challenges. We ask all shareholders to read the newsletters each week and feel free to chat with our farm staff at distributions. We also provide printed versions of the newsletter for any members who prefer that.

Joining a CSA means making a choice to eat seasonally.  What we harvest changes over the course of the season, depending on what grows in spring, summer or fall.  Members should expect the variety of your produce to shift from month to month.  We do our very best to provide you, each week, with a choice of salad greens, cooking greens, roots, alliums (onions/scallions/garlic), and fruits (cucumbers/squash/tomatoes/peppers) as these crops are ready to harvest.  You’ll see the changes of the seasons on your kitchen table. Click here for CISA’s Western Mass harvest calendar, a list of expected vegetable diversity.

Just Roots has a commitment to sustainable, organic farming.  Over the past nine years we have worked to build healthy soils on the land that we are privileged to steward.  In that time, we have grown our vegetable crops following organic standards and practices.  Although we are not a certified organic farm, we use only materials approved by the Organic Materials Review Institute for pest control and fertility management. We focus on building healthy soils that will, in turn, provide us with strong, healthy, delicious food.

We encourage you to ask our team about our farming practices, and we regularly communicate those practices through our CSA newsletter.