Sharing in the Reward of Crop. Surplus A “share” will be delivered to you in a 1 1/9 bushel box, a ½ bushel boxor a tote bag, depending on the share you choose. During the height of the growing season, you’ll have enough of a selection to choose fromto easily fill your box, but early produce is slightly harder to come by so the first few boxes might not be quite as full. In addition to our CSA, our farmsells at our farm stand, farmers markets, and restaurants and wholesale distributors. We balance priority of the CSA with our other markets. This allows us to select a consistently full and diverse share to our customers while avoiding over-delivering any one product.
Sharing in the Reward of Crop. Surplus We work to maximize the diversity of our product offerings & will avoid over-delivery of any one product. But just as members share in the risk of a crop failure, they will also enjoy the benefits of a crop surplus; where certain items will be left on a ‘CSA Only’ table free of charge for members on pick-up days. A crop surplus can occur for a variety of reasons, but usually (at least at March Farm) happens when inclement weather is either occurring or forecasted for the days leading to & on CSA share pick-up days. For example, a rainy weekend will keep most ‘Pick Your Own’ patrons out of our strawberry field. That leaves us with a surplus of berries that need to be picked before over ripening occurs. In this event the ripest berries would be harvested CSA pick-up mornings & offered to members free of charge in addition to what would have been normally part of their share for that week. Advance notification of a crop surplus will be provided to members via email & posted on the March Farm web site.
