Community Supported Agriculture(CSA)

What is CSA?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a locally based food distribution system that creates a direct link between farmers and consumers.

Individuals pre-purchase a "share" of the farm's harvest in the spring when expenses are highest for the farmer.

In exchange, CSA members receive a weekly box of freshly picked organic produce as it becomes available throughout the growing season.

This mutually beneficial partnership helps ensure a more secure market for small farms struggling to compete with larger, less sustainable farms, as well as ensures members consistent access to healthier, safer, and tastier food.

Why CSA?

Taste: We carefully select our produce varieties for excellent taste and quality.

Freshness: Produce is harvested on or before the day you receive it.

Health for Body and Soil: Our produce is grown without pesticides in fertile soil resulting in highly nutritious food and healthy soil.

Support Local Agriculture: Today's agri-"culture" is in crisis. Through a CSA, your dollars go directly towards strengthening and sustaining a small farm - a vital community resource!

Support Responsible Agriculture: Get to know the farm and farmers. See where and how your food is grown.

Good for Gardeners: Let us provide your weekly basics and devote your garden space to your favorites.

WHO WE ARE

The name "Ploughshare" is derived from the Bible quote ISAIAH 2: "They shall pound their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks" and connects our work for justice with our passion for growing food and being good stewards of the land. Ploughshare Farm is owned and operated by Gary and Jennifer Brever. We farm sustainably in Leaf Valley, MN just north of Alexandria.

For More Information Call or Write:

Ploughshare Farm

6653 Harvest Place RD

Parkers Prairie, MN 56361

(218)267-5117

gjbrever@midwestinfo.com