Veggies for a whole season
Direct, transparent, together
CSA
Community Supported Agriculture
That’s exactly what it is! As a member, you support the farmers (us) as well as the community (each other) and help create a better food system. We as farmers commit to doing everything in our power to ensure a bountiful harvest and delivering fresh and healthy vegetables. Apart from enjoying fresh vegetables, you also wish to support us ideologically and financially so that we can succeed as a micro-business. By buying your share for the whole season in advance you provide us with capital right when we need it: at the beginning of the year when we buy seeds, plants and equipment. If you want to help us demonstrate the feasibility of this kind of food production, join us!
That’s the deal
Weekly delivery or Farm pick-up
Every week you’ll receive fresh vegetables from what’s available on the land, with the boxes following the seasons. This means that in spring harvests will be a little less plentiful than in summer when we will be scrambling to gather in the abundance of crops. Generally, you can always find around 5-8 different types of vegetables, and some herbs and edible flowers in the vegetable box. As the variety of vegetables that grow in winter is quite limited, we decided to distribute our boxes for 30 weeks from May until November/December.
Price
THAT’S A SPECIAL ONE! BECAUSE IT’S UP TO YOU!
We’re striving to find a balance to keep our vegetables affordable while at the same time paying the farmers a fair wage. Quite a challenge!
We think that a sustainable food system that takes care of people and planet is not possible in a market system where competition drives farmers to exploit nature and their farm workers in order to keep their prices low. Stepping away from this system we ask you to think of your payment as paying us for the service of providing food and taking care of our land in a responsible way.
Inspired by the pricing model of many other CSA’s we have decided to ask you to base the price you want to pay for the vegetable box on what you want the farmers to earn per hour. We ask you to think about which salary you find fair for the farmer and balance that with what you are able to pay for climate-friendly local food production.
Please keep in mind that we are self-employed and that our salary includes pension, social security, holiday money, insurances and taxes!
Small
About 7 different vegetables (incl. max. 1-2 bunches of herbs).
Enough to cook 3-4 meals for a singe person household.
Medium
About 9 different vegetables (incl. max. 1-2 bunches of herbs), bigger quantities/vegetable.
Enough to cook 3-4 meals for a couple or a small family.
Large
About 10 different vegetables (incl. max. 1-2 bunches of herbs), bigger quantities/vegetable
Enough to cook 4-5 meals for a family.
The small vegetable package at different times of the season
Where and when?
choose your pick-up point
A big Thank You to everyone who is supporting us this season by acting as a pickup point, it wouldn’t be possible without you!
We deliver by e-cargo bike on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the city, May until November
All our pick-up points have a limited capacity!
Pick-up points & pickup times
Wednesday (red/green)
Saturday (blue/green)
Winter shares
IF THE SEASON ALLOWS
If there is enough left on the field at the end of the season, we also offer winter shares. For these, we have a fixed price and a very limited number of places. Please contact us if you are interested.
Questions
Or want to know more?
Feel free to drop us a message, use the contact form to reach out to us. We will get back to you within a week.
Want to support us in an other way?
Become a friend of de Stadsgroenteboer!
Do you live too far away to be a member or just like our project and want to support it? Then you can join us as a ‘friend of de Stadsgroenteboer’. With your contributions we are able to reinvest in our small farm and to bring together the food system to the next level! Click here to join.