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Time to Join a Nashville CSA
A CSA or Community Supported Agriculture is a way to reap the benefits of local farm produce and meats, while supporting the farmer at the same time. Many have multiple weekly pick-up points. Find one that's right for you below.
Bells Bend Farms
Bells Bend is calling for more CSA subscriberss to partake of their fresh organic/biodynamic vegetables during the May - December growing season. The half-bushel share contains between 7-10 different items depending on the time of year. Multiple pickup locations make Bells Bend a convenient option to try out a CSA. Pick-ups at Vanderbilt and West Nashville. Bells Bend is known for inviting CSA members to their farm (about ten minutes from downtown) for harvest festivals, square dances, potluck dinners, workshops, and more. A helpful weekly email newsletter offers updates on farm activities, recipes and food storage tips.
Bells Bend is calling for more CSA subscriberss to partake of their fresh organic/biodynamic vegetables during the May - December growing season. The half-bushel share contains between 7-10 different items depending on the time of year. Multiple pickup locations make Bells Bend a convenient option to try out a CSA. Pick-ups at Vanderbilt and West Nashville. Bells Bend is known for inviting CSA members to their farm (about ten minutes from downtown) for harvest festivals, square dances, potluck dinners, workshops, and more. A helpful weekly email newsletter offers updates on farm activities, recipes and food storage tips.
Doe Run Farm
Doe Run Farm is located midway between Huntsville and Nashville.They offer a wide range of produce. They deliver weekly farm boxes through our CSA program to both areas.Doe Run Farms offers a spring and summer CSA with three farm box sizes available, accomodating large families to an individual. They have 2 pick-up locations in Nasvhille:
Doe Run Farm is located midway between Huntsville and Nashville.They offer a wide range of produce. They deliver weekly farm boxes through our CSA program to both areas.Doe Run Farms offers a spring and summer CSA with three farm box sizes available, accomodating large families to an individual. They have 2 pick-up locations in Nasvhille:
Green Hills (Woodmont Baptist Church) 2100 Woodmont Blvd – Our farm vehicle parks at the side parking lot near trees that border Woodmont Ave. Tuesday / 4:45 pm to 5:15 pm Public pickup
Vanderbilt Medical Center – Come to the Loading Zone behind Light Hall on campus. This is near MCN. Tuesday / 3:50 pm to 4:10 pm Public pickup
Green Door Gourmet
A terrific option for the modern foodie, our Local Farm Box tackles some of the most common consumer CSA issues by featuring an easy pick-up schedule, personalized attention from your farmer, and numerous produce selections. Due to customer demand, we're introducing a Fun Sized AND Family Sized Box! Our Loyalty Program offers exclusive on-farm market discounts as well as a free Local Farm Box! Once you sign up for a Season Subscription, you will be eligible for 2 free Local Farm Boxes based on the subscription you have selected.
Option 1: Fun Sized Box (1/4 Bushel) - $24 for 22 weeks = $528
This option is great for 1-2 people. If you’ve been intimidated by our larger boxes in the past, this box has the perfect amount of veggies for your busy schedule.
Option 2: Family Sized Box (1/2 Bushel) - $38 for 22 weeks = $836
This option is perfect for families of 3+ or the ultimate veggie lover. If you love to cook and need plenty of vegetables to do so, this is the box for you! Split it with a friend or enjoy it all yourself!
Barefoot Farmer
Share Options
Single Share: $750/year (if paid by first pick up or 1/2 upfront and 1/2 by September) OR $115/month ($805/year).
Family Share: $1350/year (if paid by first pick up or 1/2 upfront and 1/2 by September) OR $200/month ($1400/year).
Pickup Time and Place
Weekly deliveries begin the first week of June and last until mid-December
Nashville (in Berry Hill):
Mondays 4-7pm
2610 Westwood Drive
Nashville, TN 37204
Cookeville:
Thursdays 4-6pm
201 S Willow Ave
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
CSA Contact
Natalie Ashker
901-626-7760
natalie.ashker@gmail.com
Share a Share –We strive to make fresh, locally grown produce available to as many of our neighbors as possible. The goal of this program is to provide families in need with access to a CSA share. We are collecting donations that will be used to subsidize a CSA share for those who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost. All donations are appreciated and will go towards providing fresh, healthy produce to low-income families. Thank you in advance for your support.
Special Payment Requests
We want to be flexible and accommodating. If you are committed to eating the highest quality local food, but just can’t afford our prices, talk to us. Please contact Natalie at natalie.ashker@gmail.com for special payment requests.
Old School Farm
Old School Farm is a nonprofit market garden creating meaningful employment for adults with intellectual disabilities and growing organic produce for Nashville!
With their CSA, you'll recieve a box of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers every week (full share) or every other week (half share) during the 2016 season. You’ll receive 5-10 items each time at $25/week minimum value; amounts will vary depending on seasonality.
Summer Share: 26 weeks from May through October Autumn Share: 4 weeks, End of October - Week of Thanksgiving (November).
They offer three (4) pick-up locations: Old School Farm Thursdays, 3-6 pm, St. George's Farmers' Market, Thursdays 3:30 - 6:30pm, 12th South Farmers’ Market in Sevier Park. Tuesdays, 3:30-6:30 pm. Tentative:(hopefully)!: Richland Park Farmers’ Market, Saturdays 9am-12:30pm
Rosie Bell Farm
Rosie Belle Farm CSA members are "shareholders" in the production of the farm for six months, during which time they receive a weekly basket of farm goods in exchange for a membership fee. Our food is grown naturally...no chemicals, no herbicides. Our animals are raised lovingly.....with respect, kindness, and deep appreciation for their contribution to the sustainability of the Farm.
The Rosie Belle Farm CSA is decidedly different from other CSA's as we provide substantially more than seasonal fruits and vegetables. Rather, we offer a share of the full bounty of the farm....We make our own goat cheeses and cow cheeses. Our hens--both meat hens and laying hens--- have the run of the farm....the free ranging lifestyle results in the production of delicious eggs and meat that REALLY tastes like chicken! We offer sweet raw clover honey, jams and preserves, raw milk (both cow and goat) and a selection of yogurts. We prepare a delightful array of home baked breads that will rival those found in your favorite bakery...Ciabatta, Seed and Nut, Rye, Rustic Farm White, Cinnamon Raisin, Honey Nut, and beyond!
We offer an ever changing weekly selection of meats....chicken, pork, beef and lamb..... all lovingly raised free ranging on our pastures. Finally, because the Farmer's Wife likes to cook, you will see a ready made meal or two each week, depending upon the vagaries of the farm and the whim of the Chef. Each item has a point value and YOU choose what you'd like in your basket! Gluten Free? No problem! Vegan? Not an issue! Our selection is so varied that you will be able to choose from a variety of offerings to satisfy the most discerning consumer.
Delivery is available throughout Nashville for a minimal $5 fee and we offer Half Share and Full Share Options starting at $60 per week.
Hill & Hollow Farm
Hill & Hollow is located across the state line in Edmonton, KY, but once a week on Saturdays, they bring a truckload of beautiful produce for pick-up at the Nashville Farmers’ Market. Over the course of 20 weeks, subscribers receive the seasonal bounty from the farm, as produce reaches perfect ripeness. Much of the farm is worked using traditional methods to tend and harvest short rows by hand, “so subscribers support the old ways as well.”
Hill & Hollow is located across the state line in Edmonton, KY, but once a week on Saturdays, they bring a truckload of beautiful produce for pick-up at the Nashville Farmers’ Market. Over the course of 20 weeks, subscribers receive the seasonal bounty from the farm, as produce reaches perfect ripeness. Much of the farm is worked using traditional methods to tend and harvest short rows by hand, “so subscribers support the old ways as well.”
Sugar Camp Farm
2016 is the first year for the Sugar Camp CSA. To Jesse Higginbotham and Lizzie Wright, being a member of a CSA means more than just receiving food each week. It means you are supporting two people who are learning how to farm sustainably on a small-scale, an endangered profession. It means supporting the young people who come to work for us in their endeavors to learn about farming. It means developing rich friendships with our members, a community that is excited about eating and cooking high quality food, knowing where that food comes from and how it's grown.
They will be offering a couple of CSA options this year and add-ons. Pick-ups will be at the Richland Farmers' Market Saturdays, and at PRB on Charlotte Tuesdays 5-7. They are open to working with those with limited financial means. All options may be purchased at our online store or purchased via check or cash (send us an email at sugarcampfarmtn@gmail.com if you prefer this option).
Bloomsbury Farm
Bloomsbury Farm is nestled in the hills between Smyrna and Nolensville, TN. Our greenhouse grows all the sprouts, wheatgrass and micro-greens year round. Vegetables and herbs are also a large part of the operation, which are grown from March through November. New additions to the farm are a variety of Heritage chickens and everyone is looking forward to the eggs soon to come. (from their website)
Bloomsbury Farm is nestled in the hills between Smyrna and Nolensville, TN. Our greenhouse grows all the sprouts, wheatgrass and micro-greens year round. Vegetables and herbs are also a large part of the operation, which are grown from March through November. New additions to the farm are a variety of Heritage chickens and everyone is looking forward to the eggs soon to come. (from their website)
Fresh Harvest Cooperative
Fresh Harvest consists of two farms: Drury Family Farm and Turnbull Creek Organic Farm. Their subscription service allows you to pick the products you want on Sunday night for delivery on Wednesday. Products include a variety of vegetables, meats, bread, cheese, and flowers. Pick-up at Trinity Church in Green Hills, the farm in Bon Aqua, and at Thompson’s Station in Franklin.
Fresh Harvest consists of two farms: Drury Family Farm and Turnbull Creek Organic Farm. Their subscription service allows you to pick the products you want on Sunday night for delivery on Wednesday. Products include a variety of vegetables, meats, bread, cheese, and flowers. Pick-up at Trinity Church in Green Hills, the farm in Bon Aqua, and at Thompson’s Station in Franklin.
Delvin Farms
For those who just can't wait for summer, Delvin Farms offers a spring CSA for April and May, which includes cool-season crops such as lettuce, kale, arugula, radishes, broccoli, cabbage, Swiss chard, onions, strawberries and asparagus. The farm, located in College Grove, grows over 60 varieties of produce, and a typical week’s box will feature 6 to 12 varieties of fresh vegetables. In addition to over 15 pick-up locations covering East Nasvhille to Bellevue, Delvin Farms also offers home delivery to limited zip codes using Rush Bicycle Messengers.
For those who just can't wait for summer, Delvin Farms offers a spring CSA for April and May, which includes cool-season crops such as lettuce, kale, arugula, radishes, broccoli, cabbage, Swiss chard, onions, strawberries and asparagus. The farm, located in College Grove, grows over 60 varieties of produce, and a typical week’s box will feature 6 to 12 varieties of fresh vegetables. In addition to over 15 pick-up locations covering East Nasvhille to Bellevue, Delvin Farms also offers home delivery to limited zip codes using Rush Bicycle Messengers.
Athenas Harvest
Our CSA: If you become a member of our 2018 CSA, you'll be bringing our farm to your table and enjoying fresh, healthy produce every week (or every other week for "half" shares) for 25 weeks, starting the week of May 7, and ending in November. We give our CSA a 2 to 3 week hiatus in August and/or early September [exact dates TBD], which gives our customers a break, and also gives us time to put in a really good fall planting of crops. CSA customers will get 25 weeks of produce regardless of the number of hiatus weeks we use in August/early-September.
You'll get a few cool season items at the beginning and end of the season, plus your summer favorites, and maybe a few things you haven't tried before! Check out our Harvest Dates Chart to get an idea of what you will get when. We'll provide recipes and storage/preservation information throughout the season to help sort out any kitchen kerfuffles, and you can always ask us questions via email (or call in an emergency).
Everything in your CSA boxes will be free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and GMO's, which maybe isn't necessary, but which sure makes us farmers and our land happier (and hopefully makes you feel better too). We're proud of the food we grow, and we hope you'll share some with your friends and family, as we do with ours. Though we have not yet pursued organic certification due to costs that are increasingly geared towards larger scale farms than ours, we do follow all of the rules, and enjoy telling anyone that will listen about our sustainable farming techniques.
A Full Share (for a family of three or four, serious cooks, solid vegetarian eaters, or people who like putting food by), consists of 1 CSA box (or paper grocery bag size) valued ~$30/box (give or take a couple of dollars depending on the type of share you select). Each box will contain 6 to 10 vegetable/fruit varieties each week. (Likely on the lower side early in the season, and on the higher end later in the season).
Half Shares (perfect for couples and singles) are the same as the full share described above, but only delivered every other week (we’ll schedule with you to determine which sequence of weeks you will be on).
Pickup locations adn prices at Athenasharvest.com
TN Grass Fed Farms
Our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a program where customers sign up to receive a “box” of our products once a month for a 6 month period.
The following packages include a variety of products that will be carefully rotated from month to month.
CSA members will receive their box of products once every month for the six month period of membership.
Boxes include:
10 Pound Beef CSA inclused steaks, ground beef, and various beef cuts.
10 pound Variety CSA includes chicken, salmon ground beef, pock cuts and
15 pound Beef CSA
15 Pound Variety CSA
Pick-up locations are many from Madison to Clarksville to Mt Juliet, Murfreesboro, Smryna and Hendersonville and downtown Nasvhille.
Paradise Produce
Paradise Produce has two CSA options: the traditional CSA box and the new Market Style, where you browse tables of produce and select items as you would at the farmers' market. Their summer season runs 25 weeks, beginning in May with one break week Aug. 5th for fall planting (24 pick ups in 25 weeks). Each member receives a Paradise Produce tote at the first pick up to carry away their produce. Full (1/2 bushel) and half (1/4 bushel) shares are available. Pick up for traditional CSA boxes is at Silke's Old World Bread in Clarksville; pick up for the Market Style CSA option is at the Paradise Produce Farm, located at 7721 Whites Creek Pike.
Paradise Produce has two CSA options: the traditional CSA box and the new Market Style, where you browse tables of produce and select items as you would at the farmers' market. Their summer season runs 25 weeks, beginning in May with one break week Aug. 5th for fall planting (24 pick ups in 25 weeks). Each member receives a Paradise Produce tote at the first pick up to carry away their produce. Full (1/2 bushel) and half (1/4 bushel) shares are available. Pick up for traditional CSA boxes is at Silke's Old World Bread in Clarksville; pick up for the Market Style CSA option is at the Paradise Produce Farm, located at 7721 Whites Creek Pike.
Katharos Farm: Meat CSAs
Katharos is one of just a few farms in the country that base everything on purity and stewardship. Purity: Local feed, verified to have no chemicals. They pay to have every batch of feed tested. Stewardship: They don't ship. They use moveable, nonintrusive infrastructure. They mimic nature to recreate the exact same environment found in the wild, in short they let the animals express their “animalness.” They also use NO chemicals on the property. The animals, for the most part, maintain the pasture, create a healthy and natural soil disturbance, and most importantly fertilize. Katharos farms offers a meat CSA to consumers at katharos.com. This year you can choose from a variety of meat CSA’s featuring all chicken, and chicken, sausage, pork. They offer 3 options at 3 different price points, all running from April through September.
Eaton's Creek Organics
Eaton's Creek Organics (ECO) is a certified-organic, community-based farm serving middle Tennessee by growing vegetables, herbs and berries of the highest quality and taste, freshness and nutrition. They have been in production since 2000 and are proud to have been the first certified-organic farm in Davidson county. They believe in the importance of sustainable agriculture in their local economy and that all people deserve to access to fresh, wholesome (healthful, nourishing) food.
Allenbrooke Farm
Like many CSAs, Allenbrooke Farm offers your choice of produce. Instead of receiving a standard box of preselected items, with this CSA, you actually select the produce you want when you pick up your share. Pick-up at Allenbrooke Farms, 2023 Doctor Robertson Rd, Spring Hill.
Like many CSAs, Allenbrooke Farm offers your choice of produce. Instead of receiving a standard box of preselected items, with this CSA, you actually select the produce you want when you pick up your share. Pick-up at Allenbrooke Farms, 2023 Doctor Robertson Rd, Spring Hill.
Barefoot Farmer at Long Hungry Creek Farm
Jeff Poppen, also known as the Barefoot Farmer, is the owner and operator of one of the oldest and largest organic farms in Tennessee located in Red Boiling Springs. They deliver their produce (which you can choose each week) to a location in Berry Hill. Read our story on Jeff here.
When you support us, our farm is your farm. We encourage you to participate in farm activities: hikes, picnics, swimming, camping and planting potatoes. It’s a beautiful place with un-logged forests and a clear creek winding past bluffs and a cave. About one third of the farm’s 200+ acres are rolling meadows and hay fields which, with our herd of cattle, sustain the fertility of the farm. Through CSAs small organic farms thrive, and city folks get the freshest food possible. Our CSA members enjoy:
- Biodynamic food, at competitive organic prices, direct from the farm
- More than 80 varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers grown here each year
- Sharing vegetables and recipes with friends and neighbors
- Belonging to a community of people who also care about quality produce and supporting local organic agriculture
- And a connection with the farm and farmers who grow your food
- Access to additional vendors who sell their products at our CSA
Join our CSA To join our CSA you must pay a membership fee of $50. This fee secures your place and demonstrates your commitment. This is a one-time fee, and gives you a lifetime membership in the farm. So if you take a year or two off from the program, and then choose to come back, you will not be charged again, (but you may have to get in the queue).
Share Options
Single Share: $750/year (if paid by first pick up or 1/2 upfront and 1/2 by September) OR $115/month ($805/year).
Double Share: $1250/year (if paid by first pick up or 1/2 upfront and 1/2 by September) OR $200/month ($1400/year).
Pickup Time and Place
Weekly deliveries begin the first week of June and last until mid-December
Nashville (in Berry Hill):
Mondays 4-7pm
2610 Westwood Drive
Nashville, TN 37204
Cookeville:
Thursdays 4-6pm
201 S Willow Ave
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
Cookeville, Tennessee 38501
CSA Contact
Natalie Ashker
901-626-7760
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