Imagine this:

When you sign up for a share in Bluebird Gardens' CSA, you are getting the best possible piece of our farm...you will get a box of produce delivered to you each week from June to mid-October!  So when your neighbors are just beginning to plant their gardens in late May and early June, you will be already receiving our first harvests from our high tunnel greenhouses.  And in place of the high expense and hassle of doing your own garden, our garden will come to you each week.  With the weekly arrival of our vegetables, you and your family will be nudged into healthy eating habits!  Your first weekly boxes will likely contain romaine lettuce, cucumbers, mixed lettuce, spinach and fresh radishes.   Nothing compares with the first harvest after a long winter!   But, as the season progresses, you will find more and more new items in your weekly delivery.  Since you prepaid, each box will feel a little like a Christmas surprise with new flavors for your eager tastebuds!! 

Green onions, zucchini, new potatoes, shelling peas, sugar snap peas and green beans will soon appear in your weekly delivery.  Beets, carrots, Walla Walla onions, tomatoes, herbs, cabbage, peppers and tomatoes will soon grace your table as well... all with the nutritionally dense flavor of Bluebird Gardens.  The real hit, our main attraction, will be sweet corn.  We extend summer crops as far into fall as possible.  But fall will also bring winter squash varieties, fall radishes and fall decoratives.  

You might think, "It can't get better than this."  But it does!!  As a family share CSA member, you are invited to connect with the farm in ten farm events where you come and gather peas, beans, herbs, tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, sweet corn, cabbage, broccoli, kale, potatoes, squash, pumpkins, fall decoratives, beets, carrots and peppers for your freezer, canning jars and pantry.  Details of this are listed  under "2012 CSA Share" menu choice!!

SAVOR THE FLAVOR OF SUMMER AT BLUEBIRD GARDENS!

The real beauty of CSA lies in the connection to the farm.  Since you are signing up to be an active shareholder in our farm, you are invited to attend farm harvest events.  The idea of stocking up for winter is enhanced by the actual experience on the farm. You will receive newsletter emails.    We can share recipes and stories of how we are savoring the flavor of summer at Bluebird Gardens.   And if you have any questions, anytime, just click on Contact and type an email which goes instantly to me.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Before the season starts in 2012, you can purchase a $595 FAMILY SHARE,  which generally feeds a family of four,  or a $395 SHARE to our farm, which feeds a family of two.      There is a secure sign-up on this website.   The system this year should be much better than the google system of 2010.  The new plan will allow you to use your credit card as before.  You can pay in full.  Or to make it easier for you to budget, you can pay 20% down on your credit card and then the system will automatically make the next four monthly payments, which amounts to 20% each month over five months.   You can also pay by check and in that case, check "Invoice only."  

On a normal season, the CSA deliveries run from early June to mid-October.  Each box will contain what our season is providing for that week.  For example, an early June box will most likely contain romaine and mixed lettuce, onions, spinach, radishes and cucumbers.  A July box might contain cucumbers, zucchini, regular peas, sugar snap peas, pea pods, onions, cabbage, green beans, beets carrots, herbs, tomatoes and new potatoes.  The August box would likely include most of the July items, except peas, along with sweet corn, cantaloupe and peppers.  The September and October boxes will also include squash, winter radishes and fall decoratives such as gourds, pumpkins and Indian corn.  The "WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT" page shows a graph of when you might likely see each item.