SIGN UP FOR OUR CSA NOW!
Early Sign-Up Saves $$! Pricing goes up by $25 per month.
Pick Up Begins In Late June
Full Share is $930
Half Share is $525
*Please note, there is a 3% credit card/PayPal convenience fee*
You can also mail a check along with the CSA Agreement to:
SIW Vegetables
4311 South Creek Road
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
ALL CSA members MUST sign the CSA agreement and email or mail back to SIW when signing up.
If you have never been a part of our CSA you need to read
this! We operate a little
differently than other CSAs.
What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)? Historically,
CSA’s charged you money in the winter and gave you whatever they
had (their choice) every week throughout the growing season. In addition, members had
to work a certain number of hours on the farm to share in the experience.
This helped to educate the members about what it takes to produce their vegetables and
why some crops failed, and others didn’t. It also helped the farmer to get some work
done too! Some people even like
that kind of thing! We the people are much lazier now though
some CSA’s still require 50-100 hours a year of labor. We don’t.
We do charge you in the winter and we do give you stuff in
the summer. That is where we part paths with the Fundamentalists. We don’t
require you to work on the farm in the summer though we would welcome you with open arms.
Summer camp for the kids? Ha! I encourage you to at least come to see that we
really are growing fruits and veggies on the farm.
We do not grow everything organically. We do grow a lot of
things without man- made chemicals. We are very careful about what we do use to
control problems that arise from time to time. Some crops are more susceptible to
insects and diseases, and we recognize that and treat accordingly IF we think the
economic threshold has been passed. This is called Integrated Pest Management or IPM and
we have been practicing it for 33 years (the beginning of SIW time). It requires a lot
more management and a lot fewer chemicals (organic or synthetic).
You select your own produce, get a discount on items we
don’t grow, and can have all the free compost you want (actually we have a 100-ton limit.
Sorry). If you don’t have a truck, we would be glad to lend you one. If you want me to
deliver it is $45 per load (3 yards) and I can dump it wherever you want. We post the CSA list Monday morning, and you pick up your
goodies any day of the week that works for you (although we encourage weekday pickups so you can beat the Saturday and Sunday crowds). If you decide you need more for your big shindig on Saturday night
you get a discount on that too.
If you agree to become a member you pay me in the winter and
I give you fruits and vegetables that I grow once a week throughout the
growing season, (Every other week for a Half Share). Typically we start to get a few
things in mid-June, most things in July through early October and decrease in October as the
month wears on. Except for pumpkins and all the fall decorating stuff, of course. The
idea is that you help us when we don’t have any money coming in and eat healthy all
summer! Our canned goods are not included though you do get a discount on them. You also
share in the ups and downs of the growing season. If we have a crop failure you are out
of luck. But conversely, if we have a bumper crop, you get extra. We are at Mother Nature’s
mercy.
We try to keep an updated board with what you are entitled
to each week. If you are confused by something or notice an omitted product on
display PLEASE ASK FOR HELP. This works much like the honor system. You can come ANY DAY OF THE WEEK (though we encourage you to come on weekdays to beat the weekend rush). You select your veggies from this list. There are no
substitutions, and we ask that you please honor this. If you take extra someone else may get short-changed. We are picking and selling fresh things constantly so if something's not there that's on the board just let us know and we'll offer you a substitute. We don’t pick
many items by the truckload and store them in huge quantities to have them available all the
time. Grocery stores do that. In order for them to do that they have to pick things less ripe
so they will last. Not so with SIW. We do store some things, but the majority of the items
are sold the day they are picked. Betcha didn't know that!
Corn is the exception. We usually keep that for two weeks or
more. If anyone believed that they are not allowed to join. We pick our corn
multiple times daily and feed it to the pigs if it’s leftover at the end of the day. But
we don’t have pigs so it goes to a good home or the compost pile. Are you cornfused yet?
If you have any questions at all please e-mail me or call. Your satisfaction is truly important to me!
SIGN UP FOR THE 2024 CSA HAS BEGUN! You can also purchase SIW Bucks. Please go to the SIW Bucks page on this website for more information. Thank you!
For questions, please email Rich: farmstand@siwvegetables.com
Thank you,
H.G. Haskell III
610-715-7688
SIW Vegetables
4311 South Creek Road
Chadds Ford, PA 19317