Local vegetable subscription (CSA)

The Backbone of Local Food

Members: the first delivery for 2024 for every week and A week subscription is Thursday, June 13th. For B week subscriptions, its Thursday, June 20. Please watch your inbox for additional info!

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, which is at the core of what we do.

We believe that food is the Earth’s love language to our bodies. Food that’s fresh, local, and whole gives us a feeling of belonging within the seasonal rhythm, sense of place, and community that grows up around it.

Our job as farmers is to translate that language as clearly as possible, and tend the Earth to keep it flowing.

Your job, however, may be most essential of all: receiving the food and transforming it into nourishment for your table. Learning how to plan your meals to fit the season we’re in. Meeting the Earth halfway by trying things that grow well in your area, that you may not have seen in stores or on menus. You make small local farms viable through your commitment.

When you become a CSA member, you own a share of the season’s harvest. You pay for that share up front, which helps us cover the costs we have at the beginning of the season, such as seeds, tools, compost, labor, and equipment.

Our members have access to financial aid through our partnership with Fairshare Coalition. Apply for their Partner Shares program here.

When you let us be your farmer, we will guide you through a hands-on experience of the seasonal parade of veggies, fruits, and herbs straight from the land where you live. With over 10 years of experience, each CSA box we provide is carefully curated with a diversity of varieties to delight and inspire you all season long.

Sign up early ☀️

You can sign up as long as shares are still available, but space is limited, so don’t miss out! Our CSA is likely to fill up before the growing season begins. You can pay in full for the season, or choose to pay in 2 or 4 installments. Financial aid is available through our partnership with Fairshare Coalition. Apply for it on their website and select us as your farmer of choice. They also make it possible to process EBT payments.

Choose your share 🥕

Our farm offers flexible CSA options, so you can choose just the right subscription.

• Pick your share size, with options ranging from a small share for a single-person household to a large share enough for 3-5 people 

• Set your frequency — once a week for 20 total deliveries or once every other week for 10 total deliveries

• Choose subscribe to Summer CSA (June-October) and/or Fall (October-November). Note: fall shares are offered in large size and every other week only.

• Pick your optional add-ons:

  • fresh-picked local flowers by Waggle Dance Flowers

  • locally grown button or cremini mushrooms grown my Gourmet Delight

  • Eggs raised by Three Brothers Farm

    You can also choose to subscribe to multiples as needed for your household size and food preferences (e.g. 2 full shares + 3 egg shares + 1 mushroom share, etc.).

Choose your pickup spot📍

Our farm serves 14+ CSA pickup locations across Milwaukee, Greenfield, Cedarburg, Menomonee Falls, Mequon, Port Washington, Wauwatosa, and West Bend. 

CSA pickups are always on Thursdays, with the exception of West Bend Farmers Market (Saturdays) and our final Fall Share box (Monday before Thanksgiving). You’ll see the pickup hours listed next to each location when you sign up, so you can be sure to choose one that works with your schedule. You must pick up on the day shown to guarantee freshness.

Enjoy! ☺️

You’ll start collecting your share when the season starts. You’ll get a weekly newsletter with recipes, storage tips, and more info about the current harvest, to help you with meal planning, storage, nutrition info, and more to help you make the most of your share.

Summer CSA starts June 13th, 2024 

Fall CSA starts October 31st, 2024

Reduced food waste. Thanks to the CSA model, we are able to plan and distribute our crops so efficiently that on-farm waste is minimized compared to a farmer’s market model or a grocery store model.

Best value. You won’t find these prices for organic certified locally grown produce through any other market channel, guaranteed. 

Flexibility. With a variety of share options, vacation holds, payment plans, and financial assistance, we work with our members to ensure a smooth and convenient experience. 

Reduced plastic. Our food comes in a reusable wax box that gets returned every week, and all except the most necessary items are free of single use plastic.

Local. Becoming a CSA member empowers you play an active role in building a resilient local food system for the Greater Milwaukee area.

REAL organic. Unlike the majority of grocery store “organic” brands, Winterspring Farm is certified by the Real Organic Project. We use regenerative and sustainable growing practices to keep our soil thriving and our water clean. 

CSA Share Sizes & Partners

The great majority of vegetables, fruit, and herbs are grown on our organic local farm. Add-on shares are produced by our partners, as described below. There may be times when we need to purchase items from another local organic farm to fill your box — for instance crop failure, extreme weather events, or simply not having the right soil for sustainably producing a certain crop. When we buy in an item in the box, it’s noted in the newsletter. All of our partner farms are vetted by us, organically certified, and are local small businesses like ours. This allows us to offer the best variety possible.

Perfect for feeding households of 1-3 people. When you subscribe, you can choose whether to pick up every week or every other week.

Our most popular option, the Small Share, consists of a box filled with 9 -12 summer staples, like cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce.

Available every Thursday (20 deliveries) or every other Thursday (10 deliveries) from June to October.

This share will rarely incorporate specialty produce like kohlrabi, fennel or frisée, and one bunch of herbs as opposed to two in the larger share. For more adventurous veggies and/or a larger quantity of staples, check out our larger boxes!

This size option is perfect for feeding households of 3-5 people. When you subscribe, you can choose whether to pick up every week or every other week.

Our Large Share is filled with a wide variety of 12-18 fresh seasonal vegetables, including summer staples like cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce, as well as more exotic items like fennel, kohlrabi, frisée, and eggplant. Two bunches of herbs are included as well.

Available every Thursday (20 deliveries) or every other Thursday (10 deliveries) from June-October.

We encourage our kitchen pros and adventurous eaters to try this option.

Save on the cost of your share and get involved with growing your food and get to know our farming community!

Signing up for the Farm Hand share means committing to 2 shifts consisting of 3 hours. The share that you receive is identical to our Large Share (great for households of 3-5 people), and are filled with a wide variety of 12-18 seasonal vegetables, including summer staples like cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and lettuce, as well as more exotic items like fennel, kohlrabi, frisée, and eggplant. Two bunches of herbs are included as well.

To encourage community action, we do our best to schedule farm shifts around big tasks, like garlic harvests or tomato plantings. All Farm Hand Share members will receive a list of dates closer to the season's start.

Enjoy all the late fall storage crops for the holiday season.

This share option consists large size boxes (enough for 3-5 people) filled with storage crops like winter squash, parsnips, onions, carrots, potatoes, and sweet winter greens. You’ll pick up your share every other Thursday (3 total deliveries) from October to November.

The final box will be ready for pickup on the Monday before Thanksgiving.

As of April, there are still a few fall 2024 shares available.

Add-ons are available though our partner farm program, through which we offer other farms’ local fare alongside our CSA as an optional add-on.

This flower subscription consists of a beautiful bouquet of 18-20 local, organically grown flower stems from Waggle Dance Flowers, a branch of Willoway Farm. When you subscribe, you can choose whether to pick up every week or every other week.

Local flower bouquets feature mixed perennials and annuals. Aromatic herbs and foliage are often added. Each bouquet is freshly harvested on pickup day, providing you the freshest bouquet around. Willoway Farm farm is managed organically, with no herbicides, pesticides, or plastic mulches.

This share is available weekly (14 deliveries) or every other week (8 deliveries) from mid-June to mid-September.

Connect with Willoway Farm:
Website  • Instagram

This optional CSA add-on consists of an 8 ounce portion of freshly picked organic mushrooms from Gourmet’s Delight. Selections will rotate between White Button and Cremini.

Mushrooms can be added every other week to Summer Shares (10 deliveries) or every week (20 deliveries). Mushroom shares are also available for the Fall Share (3 deliveries).

Founded by the Floyd family in the early '80s, Gourmet’s Delight Mushrooms is MOSA certified organic and grows thousands of pounds of mushrooms every week. 

Connect with Gourmet’s Delight Mushrooms:
Facebook

This optional CSA add-on consists of a dozen fresh eggs grown locally by Three Brothers Farm.

Eggs can be added to any Small Share, Large Share, Farm Hand Share, weekly (20 deliveries) or every other week (10 deliveries) from June to October. Eggs can also be added to your Fall Share (3 deliveries) every other week from October to November.

Our partnership with other local veggie growers benefits our members by providing insurance that the diversity and quality of the produce they receive is stellar every time. This helps address two major pinch points that any CSA farm is bound to struggle with:

• Crop loss. Farms are natural systems, and crops sometimes fail. Pests, diseases, weather events, infrastructure failure, fires, or other accidents can and do impact a farm’s productivity. While we can’t always anticipate when these things will happen, we have built a network of local farmers that we can call on to make sure our members don’t absorb that loss. Resilience is key.

• Land capacity. Over the years that we have been growing on this land, we have learned a lot about what we can and can’t grow here. When we focus on the crops that work well on the land we have, we are acting as better stewards of the soil and preventing waste.

These partnerships also benefit those growers and their families by providing an additional market channel and supporting their viability as a business.

Our partner farms include:

• Red Door Family Farm

• Steadfast Acres

• Springdale Farm

• Igl Farms LLC