Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

The core of Troy Community Farm is our CSA. In a time when food travels an average of 1300 miles to reach our tables, Troy Community Farm offers Madison residents the opportunity to enjoy the freshness and flavor of vegetables grown in their own backyard.

Through CSA, members learn to enjoy the quality and appreciate the quirks of Wisconsin seasonal food production. The quality comes from our ability to harvest and deliver organic vegetables in the same day. But the quirks of our climate very much dictate which vegetables will be available. While the peas are ripening, their flavor and freshness are unparalleled. But once the temperature heats up, those sweeties are gone until next year.

Weather, weeds, and insect pressure can also impact overall vegetable production. Each year some crops are more abundant than we ever expected, and others fail all together. Since we can never predict all the variables that effect production, we plant a wide variety of crops to keep members’ boxes full. Still, when particular crops flop, members feel that disappointment as much as the farmers.

To see the typical CSA shares for a season click the picture.