We are getting so close to the start of our CSA main season - in fact, thanks to all of the warm (and weird) weather that we’ve been having, we might even get started one week earlier than we had planned, so stay tuned! We can’t wait to start feeding our favorite customers again.
Why do we love CSA so much? Let us count the ways! Here are five reasons:
It allows us to get you the freshest, highest-quality produce because we can harvest and pack everything to order. Your produce hasn’t been sitting out, waiting for someone to give it a loving home like at a farmers market. Also, we’re Certified Naturally Grown, which you can read about here.
We designed our CSA to be as accessible and flexible as we could muster because that’s the kind of CSA that we would want to be members of. Just getting little bits of lots of different things was never appealing to us - we wanted to make it possible to “shop” for your CSA produce, getting larger quantities of the exact things you like. But if you like more of a sampler of veggies, that works for us too! We just really like having the options available for you. We also try to increase flexibility by offering a payment plan and expanded pick up hours at our numerous pick up locations across Baltimore.
3. It helps us plan for the season to come. Knowing how much food we need to grow helps us to plan every aspect of our farm, from the varieties of tomatoes that we should grow to how many folks we need to hire. With the unpredictability of weather, plants, and climate change, to name a few, having a sense of what’s in store for the season demand-wise is incredibly helpful to our small business. We like to think it’s helpful to our members to be able to invest in their own delicious, satisfying, nourishing cooking and eating ahead of time, too.
4. We love knowing where our food is going. When we started the farm in 2016, we only worked with wholesale customers and felt very disconnected from where our food ended up. It’s be so fun getting to meet CSA members and getting a peak into their kitchens on Instagram and Facebook. It gives us warm fuzzy feelings - truly - and motivates us through the heat and the rain!
5. We love that our members love it, too! Here’s what one of our members says: “We loved our CSA through Good Dog Farm last season for their beautiful, incredibly fresh, organic vegetables and friendly faces at share pickup. Our family especially enjoyed the awesome variety— red noodle beans, Korean melon, baby mustard greens and okra were our favorites among the less common veggies— but more typical CSA fare like sweet potatoes and collards were wonderful as well. It’s so nice that they use Harvie for administering the CSA as it makes it easy to only get what we want to eat and to buy weekly extras. We’ve joined three different CSAs over the last 10 years and while they were all great, Good Dog Farm has been our favorite for convenience, choice and more variety of vegetables. We’re looking forward to next season!” - Kristen, member since 2020
You can learn more about our CSA here on our website.