Tentative CSA box contents Week 14

Red crisp lettuce

Rainbow carrots

Squash OR eggplant OR peppers

Onions

Garlic

Cilantro

Slicing tomatoes

Cucumbers

Cherry tomatoes

Peaches

As of 4/1/10 the CSA is officially full. Thank you to all our returning and new members!

Please contact Elizabeth if you would like to put on the waiting list for 2011. elizabeth@mintogrowers.com or 503.799.6967.

Click here for the 2010 registration form (PDF format).

This will be our third year, and second full season, providing our community with the freshest, highest quality produce our farm has to offer. We pride ourselves in treating our CSA customers with the highest priority when the first peas, tomatoes, corn and other items are first ripe, they go straight into the boxes before going to market.

Most importantly we love getting to know our community members via the special relationship born over great food! Your support is vital to our success as new farmers and are truly thankful.

Basic Details

Our CSA runs for 25 weeks, from the first week in June, through the third week in November (the week before Thanksgiving). Every week a bin full of fresh, seasonal produce is dropped at your chosen site. You can either take the bin home, returning the empty bin the next week, or bring a bag to transfer the goods. The weekly newsletters are on a clipboard where you cross your name off a laminated list.  The bins are placed in a shady spot and stay very fresh.  You do not need to pick up your bin right when it’s dropped, but bins that remain the next day will  be donated to the Food Bank or eaten by the lucky drop-site resident unless pick-up is coordinated.

In your box

Every week you will receive fruit, lettuce, alliums (onions,  leeks or shallots)  herbs and 3-8 additional vegetables, depending on the season. Some items, like tomatoes, appear in your box nearly every week once they are in abundance. Garlic and potatoes generally appear every other week once they are ready to harvest. Because we pick from the Miller family blueberry farm next door, most of the fruit is comprised of blueberries, but we are planting strawberries, raspberries and other fruits.  In the meantime we support other local farmers by purchasing (and sometimes picking!) fresh fruit for the boxes. Please see the 2009 newsletters  for week to week box contents.

Sample June Box Sample August Box Sample November Box
• 1 head butter lettuce

• .5# loose lettuce mix

• 1 bunch Lacinato kale

• 1 head green cabbage

• 1 bag sugar snap peas

• 1 bunch flat leaf parsley

• 1 bunch green garlic

• 1 pint Hood strawberries

 • 1 head red leaf lettuce

• 1 bag green and purple beans

• 4 ears of corn

• 1 bag poblano peppers

• German Butterball potatoes

• Cucumbers

• 1 pint mixed cherry tomatoes

• Slicer and heirloom tomatoes

• 1 bag basil

• Shallots

• 2 pints blueberries

 • 2 heads of lettuce

• 2 Delicata winter squash

• 1 bunch carrots

• 1 head cauliflower

• 1 bag arugula

• 1 bag Vermont Cranberry beans

• Red cippolini onion

• 1 bunch cilantro

• Garlic

• Two Comice pears

How many does a share feed?

Every family eats differently, but in general our box is meant to feed a small family that likes to cook. However, we have subscribers of every size, from singles to families of five. Many couples choose to split their box to enjoy the benefits of the CSA, and then attend the farmers markets and/or eat from their own vegetable gardens. There are many many ways to enjoy the CSA box!

Drop site locations

The exact addresses and drop times will be disclosed once you become a member and the CSA start date approaches.  In general the Salem Wednesday sites are dropped at 4:00 or 4:30, and Portland Thursday is dropped at 5:30.

Salem Wednesday Delivery- starting June 2nd Portland Thursday- starting June 3rd
• The Farm – 3394 Brown Island Rd. S
• South Salem – Crestview Dr. & Hansen Dr.

• South Salem – Fairmont Hill- Superior & John

• Downtown Salem – Oregon Department of Agriculture building- Union & Summer

• West Salem – Glen Creek & Westfarthing

 • Southeast Portland – 24th & SE Salmon
• Northeast Portland – 18th & NE Siskiyou

Cost/Payment options

The cost is $500 for 25 weeks @$20 per weekly box. If you pay in full and before April 1st, the cost is or $480.

Over the entirety of the season, you will receive more dollar value in produce than the total payment cost, and your box will grow and shrink as the weather warms and cools and produce is more and abundant.

Payment options

-Full, early payment received by April 1st- $480

-Full payment received by May 1st- $500

-Two payments- $250 by May 1st, $250 by August 1st

Please contact Elizabeth- elizabeth@mintogrowers.com or 503.799.6967 for other payment options.

If our registration is not full by May 1st, we will continue to accept registration until full.

Vacation Credit

CSA member receive up to two weeks of vacation credit throughout the season. Notify us at least a week in advance and we will get box into appreciative hands. In exchange you get $20/week of credit redeemable at the farmers market, farm stand, or bulk items from the farm.


Farm Events

We hope to do two farm events this year, one in July, and one in October. Last year we had a wonderful bean shelling activity, farm tour and dinner for our one and only CSA event. It was fantastic. This year our CSA events will probably be potluck style and will include farm tours, maybe a pumpkin patch picking for kids, and possibly bean shelling again- it was big hit! If you have any ideas or activities you would like to do on the farm, let us know.