Rocky Ridge RANCH

CSA Memberships: "Cooler of the Best"

CSA means Community Supported Agriculture. The ever increasing interest in eating sustainable grown local food has supported the recent exponential growth of CSAs worldwide. The benefits of buying locally grown produce are undisputed. The produce is fresher and thereby maintains much more of the vitamins and minerals inherent in fruit and vegetables than those that have been grown miles away and shipped to local supermarkets. More importantly, we don't use pesticides, so you eat the produce as nature made it to be. It may not be as shiny or pretty as the produce you see in the supermarket, but it tastes much better.

CSAs also support your local economy. Re-discover the value of knowing where your food comes from and develop a relationship that will nurture you and and your community for generations.

Our farm's CSA program works like this:

1. You sign up to be a member with an initial fee. We can only support a fixed number of shares, so we require a fee to hold your place as a member. We recommend signing up early because the spaces fill up fast.
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2. You visit us once a week at a local farmer's market and pay $25 for a week's worth of produce which includes a dozen eggs [**see note 2]. Your week's delivery is provided in a 40 quart cooler which we supply. The following week, you bring back the empty cooler and you get another full cooler of more produce.
3. Additionally, membership provides 1 free turkey at the end of the season, priority over non-CSA members when ordering other products from our farm, as well as a 10% discount on orders for broilers, additional turkeys, Angus-cross beef, and Berkshire-Heritage pork when available.
4. You will find that what you receive in July is quite different than what you get in late August or September. This is due to the natural growing season of the many fruits and vegetables we harvest. We are confident in the value of our CSA program and know that you will get your value's worth every week. In fact, many of our members have stated that they enjoy and even prefer the variety of produce as the season progresses.
5. Our CSA "Cooler of the Best" program starts at the beginning of June and runs until the middle of October.
6. Total Cost per Share: [**see note 1]:

Fee of $100 due in advance and..

$25 per week to be paid at pick up of your delivery. 16 weeks minimum.

This equates to $500 to $600 total [This depends on the number of deliveries you take, 16-20]

It is our privilege to serve those in the local Spokane area. As we provide healthy and fresh produce for you and your family, you are an essential element which ensures our farm's existence and our livelihood. We value the important role we play in your lives. Thank you for supporting us.

Our produce

Our sustainable garden has been developing for nearly twenty years. We rotate plant locations in the garden to help reduce disease, insect, and weed problems. Succession planting of fast maturing plants is practiced to allow continuous harvest of fresh young produce all summer long. Portable greenhouses are used to extend the natural growing season.

Our favorites are spinach, lettuce, napa cabbage, radishes, sugar peas, green onions, carrots, beets, chard, beans, zucchini, cucumbers, and chives. We also grow longer season crops which are available late season. These crops include sweet corn, potatoes, squash, bulb onions, pumpkins, eggplant, and others.