2025 season info
The 2025 season runs from June 4th to November 1st. Within that period, members can choose either Weekly Pickups or Bi-weekly Pickups (every other week). Sign up for shares here. If you’re signing up with SNAP/EBT, please use this link.
Throughout the harvest season, CSA members receive the freshest Certified Organic vegetables grown at Hearty Roots Farm.
IMPORTANT! Our egg share policies have changed this year, including a limit of 1 egg share allowed per household. Please read our full update below before placing your order.
what’s in a share?
At each pickup, members can expect to receive 6–8 types of certified organic vegetables.
Each week Hearty Roots harvests a balance of organic salad greens, root vegetables, cooking greens, seasonal vegetables (like tomatoes or peppers in the summer, and winter squash in the fall), herbs and more.
A Weekly Share is designed for a medium sized household that cooks regularly, or a small household that cooks a lot of vegetables. A Biweekly Share contains the same amount of produce as the Weekly Share, but pickups occur every other week instead of every week. Smaller households and members looking for a smaller quantity often opt for a Biweekly Share.
The vegetables are harvested the day or two before you receive them, so they will remain very fresh in the fridge until your next pickup! Here are a few examples of what your share might look like throughout the season:
Spring: Arugula, Baby Lettuce Mix, Beets, Cauliflower, Japanese Turnips, Kale, Radishes
Summer: Bell Peppers, Carrots, Fennel, Garlic, Potatoes, Sweet Corn, Tomatoes
Fall: Winter Squash, Cabbage, Collard Greens, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Sweet Potatoes, Salad Mix
Winter: Spinach, Greens, Carrots, Parsnips, Beets, Turnips, Garlic, Sweet Potatoes
You can see a full list of what’s being planted here!
Members will receive an email a day or two before pickup to let them know what will be in that week’s share.
SHARE PRICING
Vegetable, Fruit and Egg Shares from Hearty Roots Farm
Weekly Vegetable Share | 20 weeks | $39/pick-up ($780/season)
Biweekly Vegetable Share | 10 weeks | $41/pick-up ($410/season)
Egg Share | $8.50/dozen or $5.00/half-dozen SEE BELOW FOR IMPORTANT NEW INFO ABOUT EGG SHARES
(For Weekly Shares: $170/season for a dozen eggs, $100/season for half-dozen)
(For Biweekly Shares: $85/season for a dozen eggs, $50/season for half-dozen)
Fruit Share | $16/pickup
($320/season for Weekly Shares, $160/season for Biweekly Shares)
Annual Membership Fee | $25 (included automatically when you add a vegetable share to your cart this year!)
An annual membership fee of $25 is required for all members of this CSA (members using SNAP/EBT are exempt from this requirement). This money helps keep your local CSA running! UPDATE FOR THIS YEAR: Your membership fee will be automatically included when you add a vegetable share to your cart! You will see it as an added fee during checkout.
IMPORTANT: New egg share policies
Due to concerns about and supply challenges related to avian flu, we are implementing two new policies for egg shares this year:
1. SIGN-UP LIMIT:
At this time, we are limiting egg share sign-ups to 1 egg share per household. Please do not add more than one egg share to your order. If you order more than one egg share, that portion of your order will be cancelled and processing fees will not be refunded.
Why?
Every spring, we get a new flock of young birds to replace older hens. This year, securing new birds for the farm is as difficult as finding reasonably priced eggs on grocery store shelves! Our order of young hens for April has been delayed until May, but if that delivery is cancelled, we will have far fewer hens this year than usual. So for now, we are limiting egg share sales. If our new hens arrive in May, we will be able to open up more egg share sign-ups at that time.
2. RISK OF AVIAN FLU:
Community Supported Agriculture is a model built on mutual support and the idea of shared risk and shared reward. This year, one of those risks is the chance that we could lose our entire flock of laying hens to avian flu. We hope that doesn't happen, but if it does, the money paid upfront for your egg shares will be critical in helping us rebuild our flock for next season! So here’s the deal:
Shared reward: CSA members will get eggs at a much lower price than what you're probably seeing at your local grocery store.
Shared risk: If we do lose our flock to avian flu, and we have to stop providing egg shares, members will have two options: 1) consider the payment made for your egg share to be a contribution to the farm to help us rebuild our flock (no refund at all) or 2) receive "farm credit" for the value of your egg share, which is an account credit that can be applied to any future CSA share you sign up for with us in the future.
We will not be providing refunds to your original payment method for egg shares. If you are not comfortable with this policy, we suggest that you forgo an egg share this season. Thank you for understanding!
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Add-On Shares
More info coming soon!
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Payment Options
Pay in Full: We appreciate your full payment to help the farm cover all the costs of growing the vegetables at the beginning of the season!
Pay in Monthly Installments: A non-refundable deposit is due upon sign-up. The remaining monthly payments will be processed on the first of each month during the season (June–October).
NEW! Pay with SNAP/EBT: You can now pay for your CSA share with SNAP/EBT! SNAP Vegetable and Fruit Shares are offered at a 50% discount thanks to the CSA is a SNAP program and supported by the generosity of our members. Click here to learn more or use this link to sign up.
Subsidized Shares: We also offers subsidized shares to members with limited incomes who are not eligible for SNAP, or who require additional financial assistance. If you would like to inquire about a subsidized share, please email eastwilliamsburgcsa@gmail.com.
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NEW! Sponsor a Share
We invite you to contribute to our Mutual Aid Fund, to help us share our produce with members of our community who can’t otherwise afford it. You can add a contribution to your cart while signing up for your share, or click here to learn more.
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Cancellation Policy
If you paid in full, you can cancel your share at any time with a week's notice. You can choose to have a credit issued for a future CSA or Farm Market purchase; or receive a refund for the value of the shares remaining in the season less processing fees.
If you pay with installments, you can cancel your payment plan at any time. The installment payments already made are non-refundable, and your cancellation will take effect at the beginning of the next month.
PICKUP SCHEDULE
Shares are available for pickup at either of the below times. All regular season pickups will be at the Red Shed Garden located at 266 Skillman Avenue.
Wednesdays, 6 - 7:30pm
Saturdays, 10am - 1pm
Members will need to choose a preferred pickup day, but can alternate between Wednesday and Saturday pickups as long as they fall within the same A or B Week. Changes must be made in GrownBy at least 3 days before the scheduled pickup.
There are two holiday weeks this season when no shares will be delivered: the week of July 4th and Labor Day Weekend (July 2nd & 5th and August 27th & 30th).
In addition to these two holiday weeks, members may choose up to two additional "vacation" weeks, to make sure the CSA schedule fits your personal schedule! When you claim a vacation week, your pickup for that week is cancelled and you receive an account credit for the value of your skipped share (veggies, eggs, and/or fruit), which can be put toward your next CSA installment payment or CSA purchase. (Vacation week claims must be submitted at least 3 days before your scheduled pick-up.)
See below for a full calendar of dates:
ready to join? here’s how!
You can sign up for your share using this link (or this one to sign up using SNAP/EBT). We use GrownBy software for our CSA member management. We love GrownBy for two reasons: it allows you to check on your pick-up schedule and to change pick-up locations and dates, and it is software designed by a farmer-owned cooperative that was founded by Hearty Roots’ own Lindsey Lusher Shute! It works great as an app from the Apple or Android app stores, or can be used in a web browser.
If you purchased a share from us last year, you should already have an account set up. If you are a new member (welcome!), you will need to create an account as part of your purchase. Once you are logged in, you will be able to make all of your selections (choosing vegetable and/or egg shares, weekly or bi/weekly, and your required membership fee) before checkout. If you have any questions or need any assistance, please contact us at csa@heartyroots.com.
We look forward to providing you and your family with our fresh, delicious produce this season!