Renew Your Share
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Dear Friends,
The hills are starting to show the first flashes of red, yellow and orange. We’re spending our days bringing in thousands of pounds of root crops to store away for the winter under beautiful autumn skies. While we’re still busy with the harvest season, our thoughts are already turning to 2024. As we wrap up fields, harrow and seed cover crop, we start to dream a bit. Maybe the onions can go here at the Gray’s farm, maybe the cabbage would do well over at Warren Wright. Now is the time we turn to you, our community, and ask you to start dreaming along with us and start thinking about the season to come. We are thrilled to announce that we are opening up CSA renewals for the 2024 Regular season share at Brookfield Farm.
We are in the end stretch of our third season here at Brookfield Farm. In so many ways Brookfield Farm, our neighborhood and our broader community now feel so much like home. We can’t imagine being anywhere else. Every farm season has its challenges and its triumphs. Unlike last year with the seemingly endless drought and hot summer, we spent this July hoping the rain would stop, tromping through mud and even a little bit chilly.
Despite the rains, the farm was able to produce so much wonderful produce this season and we are so proud of the tremendous work that our crew did to bring that food to all of you. Many farmers were not so lucky this year and we were grateful to have extra produce to donate regularly to our friends at Natural Roots Farm who were not flooded out once but three times in the course of several weeks in July.
These are the sorts of connections of community that make our farm resilient. We give today knowing that a strong community uplifts all and that we may be the ones next year who will seek support. There is so much security in knowing that we have the support of our community behind us.
Putting seeds in the dark, cold ground in the spring and hoping that those seeds grow is an act of faith. We do what we can to put our crops in the best position to succeed. We spread compost, we kill weeds, we fret and worry over them, but ultimately a large part of it is completely out of our hands. The seeds germinate or they don’t. We can’t force them to. Regardless of the weather, regardless of the pandemic, regardless of what is happening in the world we grow food. It’s what we do and we could not do it without you. This is why we love the CSA model: all of us support each other at the start of a new season, not knowing what it will bring, but willing to take the risk jointly as a community.
Share pricing will remain the same as in 2023. We are keeping the renewal process the same as last year and are asking that you renew your share by October 15. After that time, we will fill the rest of the shares on a first-come, first-served basis. Please do not delay; we don’t want to lose you!
Thank you all so much, whether this was your first season or you have been a member since the beginning. You are a part of this farm, and we couldn’t exist without you. We sincerely hope that you will join us again in 2024. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to feed your family and do what we love in a place we love so much. We can’t wait to do it again next year!
Your farmers,
Max and Kerry (on behalf of Abbe, Bonnie, Danielle, Emily, Larry, Liam and Ryan)
We are aware that these uncertain times make financial decisions more difficult than usual.
Here are some ways we are working to help make our farm share affordable for everyone who wants one:
You can now renew your share with a $20 deposit now and create your own personalized payment plan moving forward (see below)
We are able to accept HIP and/or SNAP benefits, which can be used for nearly 100% of the cost of the share (click button below and we will send you more info)
We have an established, limited “Donor Supported Share Fund,” to subsidize the share cost for people in need who don’t qualify for SNAP / HIP (please see below)
please contact us if you have any questions about any of this information.