CSA Pickup Instructions and Reminders
On-Farm Pickups – Tuesdays and Fridays, 1:30-6:30pm
- Come on your selected pickup day of either Tuesday or Friday.
- Wear a mask when you come to pickup, please use extra caution, extraordinary hygiene and maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet from others at all times.
- Pull in to the barn yard parking area between the red barn and white house.
- DRIVE SLOWLY – farm family with young children live here.
- Mind the cones. Stay in your vehicle.
- If the driveway is full, please use the overflow parking area on the other side of the barn (as shown in the parking area image). You can either wait there until others have departed or walk down the path to the barn to pick up your CSA, keeping a safe distance of at least 6 feet from others.
- We will greet you at a safe distance outside the barn, take your name, and bring out your produce.
- We will place it on a table for you to pick up or we can set your order in the trunk of your vehicle while maintaining social distance.
- There will be no U-pick on the farm this year.
- If you plan to walk the trail, please park in the additional parking area on the north side of the barn. Maintain distance from others you encounter on your walk.
Delivery to District – Wednesdays, 3:30-6:30pm
- Located at 470 James St. at State St.
- Go to Door 004 for District Athletic Club.
- CSA boxes will be stacked against the wall just inside the door.
- Pick up time is 3:30-6:30pm on Wednesdays.
- Wear a mask when you come to pickup, please use extra caution, extraordinary hygiene and maintain social distancing of at least 6 feet from others at all times.
- Take only one box, do not touch any others, all boxes will be the same.
- There will not be any clipboards to check your name off on.
Fruit Option – FINISHED for 2020
- Comes from High Hill Orchard in Meriden.
- Typically begins in early July once blueberries are ready to harvest.
- Pickup along with your vegetables on your regular pickup day and location.
Farm Store – for on-farm pick up only; not available for New Haven delivery
- We will continue to offer additional items through the farm store each week (milk, eggs, mushrooms, meat, etc.) as much as possible.
- Pickup along with your vegetables on your regular pickup day.
- Do not sign up for an additional pickup time slot.
Communications: We send out a weekly CSA newsletter during the harvest season, and additional messages throughout the year. Please read them. There is often helpful information in them, or important updates that might answer questions you have. We try to keep our website updated with those newsletters, and we also share news, stories and photos on facebook, twitter and instagram.
If you have a question, request, feedback, or need to be in touch for any reason, emailing us at
[email protected] is the best means of communication. This email is checked regularly, and we do our best to respond quickly. We’d love to talk with you when you are here on the farm and we can usually be found around the barn during CSA pickup hours, so grab our ears, pick our brains, chat us up or tell us what’s on your mind!
Bags: We will be pre-bagging or boxing your produce for the first time this year. Still it may be helpful to have additional bags for some items, particularly additional orders from the store.
What if I miss a week?: If you are not able to make it to the farm to pick up your produce on a given week, you are welcome to have someone else pick up it up for you. Simply have them come to the farm on your behalf. Any produce that is not picked up will be donated, so know that it is put to good use! If you do miss a week, please understand that you are not entitled to additional produce on another week.
Produce Donations: Part of the farm’s mission and commitment to the community is to donate produce to local hunger relief organizations, which is more important than ever right now. To make this happen, we harvest additional produce for donation on CSA distribution days. Any produce not picked up by our CSA members is added to that donation. Thus, if you can’t make it one week to get your vegetables, know that your produce will go to people in need and is never wasted.
Want more of our produce?: As our harvest allows, we will offer additional produce for sale through our weekly online store. If you don’t see something you want available in the store, please do let us know when you are here and we’ll see if we can offer it. We are not currently attending any farmer’s markets.
Final payments: If you still have a balance for the CSA, please send in your final payments, or be in touch to work out a payment plan. Email
[email protected]
