Subsidized Produce from Local Farms
enroll in a 2024 summer share
Select a Farm!
Full Plate Farm Collective CSA
Website: https://www.fullplatefarms.com/
Enjoy a weekly assortment of 8-12 different organic, in-season vegetables. Available to SNAP & WIC eligible households. Custom pack your own share or get a farmer’s choice box.
23 weekly shares, June 5 – Nov 9, 2024
PICKUP & DELIVERY OPTIONS
all are equal in price for HFFA members – $310
1 – FREE CHOICE, PACK YOUR OWN PICKUPS
Custom pack your share at our market style pickups. Enjoy an assortment of 8-10 different vegetables, some limited by harvest, some unlimited (no preserving or sharing outside your household). Pickups offered weekly at Stick and Stone (W 3-7), Press Bay (Th 3-7), Salt Point Brewing (Fri 3-6), the Youth Farm (Sat 10-1).
2 – BOXED SHARE @ GROUP PICKUP SITE
A hand-packed, farmer’s choice assortment for pickup at one of 15+ group pickup locations around Ithaca. 8-10 different vegetables sent in a 5/9 bushel reusable box each week.
3 – BOXED SHARE for HOME DELIVERY – LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Available in City of Ithaca and Village of T-burg only. Email csa@fullplatefarms.com to request home delivery.
Address: PO Box 6898, Ithaca, NY 14851
Contact: Molly at 607-379-2866 or email csa@fullplatefarms.com
23 weeks (mid-June through mid-November) of abundant locally grown, organic produce! This year there is a downtown Ithaca boxed share option as well as the usual on farm pick up in T’Burg
Two Adult Household Share- $325* – a full Sweet Land Farm bag
* These prices are for HFFA members
Contact: Paul Martin at sweetlandfarmcsa@gmail.com
Website: https://sweetlandfarm.org
Plowbreak Farm is a diversified vegetable farm committed to community, good food and sustainability. Aaron Munzer and Kara Cusolito, Plowbreak’s owners and farmers, have been feeding the community in a thirty-mile radius from the farm since 2012. As USDA Certified Organic Farm the food that is harvested from their fifty acres (ten cultivated) and nine high tunnels is never sprayed with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides. They work to promote healthy soils and a thriving ecosystem around the farm with cover cropping, habitat plantings, compost-based fertility and reduced tillage.
– Pay in 5 installments: $62 due now; $62 June 1; $62 July 1; $62 Aug 1; $62 Sept 1
- Checks can be sent to: Plowbreak Farm, 4106 Covert Road, Burdett NY 14818
- EBT: To use EBT you will need to go to GreenStar and at check out mention to the cashier that you will be making a payment to your HFFA CSA share and let them know it is Plowbreak. Then send a photo of your receipt to Kara plowbreakfarm@gmail.com
Questions? Please get in touch! Email the farm: plowbreakfarm@gmail.com or Siedra at HFFA info@healthyfoodforall.org
Fall (8 weeks, October 27th- December 15th) Personal $125, Small $150, Large $172.5
*These prices are for HFFA members
Small share – feeds 2 or 3 vegetable eaters
Personal – usually 5-7 items, feeds 1 or 2 vegetable eaters
1. On the farm – 424 Harford rd, Brooktondale
- Sunday after 3pm
- Pre-packed box with some free choice options.
- Summer and Fall shares
- The best choice if you are nearby and need flexibility with pick up time
- Tuesday 11-2pm
- Summer Share Only
- Free choice from what is being sold that day
3. Ithaca Farmers Market- East Hill Plaza
- Wednesday 3-6pm
- Summer Share Only
- Free choice from what is being sold that day
4. Ithaca Farmers Market- Steamboat Landing
- Saturday 9-3pm
- Summer and Fall Share Only
- Free choice from what is being sold that day
2. Send in your payment by check, cash or EBT
Checks can be sent to: TC3 Farm 170 North St. PO Box 520, Dryden NY 13053.
Cheat Sheet for Days of Pick Up
Monday
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No farm has pick up this day
Tuesday
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Sweet Land (1-7pm, market style, 9732 Route 96, Trumansburg)
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Nook and Cranny (11-2pm, market style, Dewitt Park Farmer’s Market)
Wednesday
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Full Plate (3-7pm, market style, 1605 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca)
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Nook and Cranny (3-6pm, market style, East Hill Plaza Farmer’s Market)
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Plowbreak (3-7pm, pre-boxed share, 4106 Covert Rd, Burdett)
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Sweet Land (12-6pm, pre-boxed share, Jillians Drawers/Mama Goose 609 W. Clinton, Ithaca)
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TC3 (3-6pm, market style, 100 Cortland Rd, Dryden)
Thursday
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Plowbreak (4:30-7pm, market style, Liquid State 620 West Green St)
- Full Plate (3-7pm market style, Press Bay Alley 116 West Green St)
Friday
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Full Plate (3-6pm, market style, Salt Point Brewing 6 Louise Bement Ln, Lansing)
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Fort Baptist (Friday 4-6pm, pre- boxed share, 915 Coddington Rd. Ithaca)
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Sweet Land (1-7pm, market style, 9732 Route 96 Trumansburg)
Saturday
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Full Plate (10am-1pm, market style, Youth Farm 24 Nelson Rd, Ithaca)
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Fort Baptist (9-12pm, market style, 545 3rd St, Ithaca)
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Nook and Cranny (9-3pm, market style, 545 3rd St, Ithaca)
Sunday
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Nook and Cranny (after 3pm, pre-boxed share, 424 Harford rd, Brooktondale)
Home Delivery Option:
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Fort Baptist (within the City of Ithaca)
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Full Plate (within the City of Ithaca + Trumansburg) *limited availability
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Sweet Land (within the City of Ithaca + Trumansburg) *limited availability
Become a farm Member through HFFA
Everybody Deserves a Fair Share of the Harvest!
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm shares provide a large quantity and variety of fresh organic produce to feed your family every week. If you are income eligible and/or identify as food-insecure, HFFA gives you the option to receive a weekly share of the harvest from one of our participating farms at a reduced cost, or free through our Audrey J Cooper scholarship program.
SNAP/WIC eligible households qualify for a 50% subsidy. If you are unsure of whether you qualify for a 50% subsidy, please refer to the income guidelines on the eligibility tab. If you do not meet these guidelines but still find it difficult to afford a CSA share, please email info@HealthyFoodForAll.org or call (607) 241-0469 and we will work with you to make arrangements.
Audrey J Cooper CSA Scholarship Fund
* Households that need additional assistance overcoming financial barriers are encouraged to enroll through our Audrey J Cooper CSA Scholarship Fund, established in honor of the life and legacy of Ms. Audrey, a community leader and human rights advocate who inspired HFFA from our inception. For more info and to apply for a scholarship, please email info@HealthyFoodForAll.org or call (607) 241-0469.
Flexible Payment Plans
HFFA Farms partner with you and with our staff to make sure that you have a payment plan that works for you. You are invited to pay in 5 installments, instead of paying in full up front in the spring.
You can also use EBT to make your payments. Contact staff for details!
FLOWER from GreenStar
Members will receive a member certificate that can be used to enroll in the GreenStar FLOWER program with ongoing discounts on purchases. Find out more here.
Free Classes
As a member with Healthy Food For All, you will also have the opportunity to join us at free cooking classes focused on preparing seasonal food, workshops on food preservation, gardening and home composting, and special events to get to know your farmers and fellow members.
Support Your Local Farmers
While Healthy Food For All members pay half the regular price for their farm share, the other half is subsidized through the support of grants, donations and fundraising events so farmers get a fair price to cover expenses. It’s a Win Win – you get the highest quality fresh food for a great value while supporting nearby family-owned organic farms!
What is Community Supported Agriculture?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a mutually supportive and cooperative relationship between the consumer and farmer. The consumer pays for a “share” of the harvest in advance, and in return, farmers commit to supplying each shareholder with fresh, quality produce on a weekly basis throughout the growing season.
How does CSA benefit farmers?
By providing farms a guaranteed source of income before the growing season, you help farmers cover upfront costs such as seeds, purchasing equipment and building hoop houses. This arrangement eases their financial burden and boosts their viability and capacity to grow great food for our community. CSA also helps farms plan to grow the right amount of food and avoid over producing which can be very costly, wasteful and burdensome on our natural resources.
How does CSA benefit consumers?
Shareholders (aka CSA members) are guaranteed a supply of fresh, quality produce at a great value over the whole CSA season. In addition, when you become a member of a farm, you gain the unique opportunity to connect with the land on which your food is grown and experience the fragile beauty and natural richness of our ecosystem. CSA is also an opportunity to build relationships with your farmers and fellow CSA members during weekly share pick-ups, in u-pick gardens and at CSA events (varies by farm). Community is fostered as a result of the cooperative arrangement and shared responsibility in promoting farm viability and food security for all.
How does CSA benefit the earth?
All of HFFA’s farms use sustainable agricultural practices such as organic, biodynamic and regenerative farming. These techniques support soil health, protect and improve water quality, help draw down greenhouse gases and restore ecosystems while nurturing fertility and fortifying the harvest—even as pests and extreme weather conditions intensify. HFFA farms are working on our behalf to combat climate change, feed our community and heal our planet.
CSA also offers a wonderful way to reduce the miles your food needs to travel, eliminate packaging and other fossil fuel intensive inputs required in the global industrial food system.
We strive to make local nutritious food affordable to everyone.
Eligibility is self determined based on the number of adults and children in your household and the corresponding upper limit for gross income (before taxes) listed in these charts. We understand living and family arrangements vary and trust your judgment in determining your level of food security and need for assistance.
If you are unemployed or have recently experienced a change in household income, please determine your own eligibility based on expected income and/or unemployment insurance benefits over the next 6 months (for more information about unemployment benefits, please visit https://www.ny.gov/services/get-unemployment-assistance).
We are committed to making local, nutritious produce available to all food-insecure community members who are seeking a CSA share and need assistance to overcome the financial barriers. We appreciate your support of local farms and the opportunity to partner with you to ensure your family has reliable and dignified access to nourishing food. Please contact HFFA’s membership happiness team with any questions or for assistance – info@HealthyFoodForAll.org / (607) 241-04699.
Farmers Build Communities through their CSA Programs.
Share sizes and prices, harvest schedules, pick-up & other options vary by farm, so please look through our options below, visit their websites, or get in touch with the farms directly to decide which one is right for you.
Farms have a limited number of subsidized shares available and can fill up fast – so contact the farm you are interested in soon! HFFA’s team is also glad to answer your questions and help you select a farm with a CSA share that best meets your needs. Things to consider include days, times and location of pick-up/delivery, share size (how much produce you want/need), whether you want to select your items each week or have the convenience of a pre-packed box, and whether you would like to have the option to u-pick flowers, herbs, fruit and veggies
Step 1) Sign-up
After you’ve selected the farm with the CSA share that best meets your needs, complete their enrollment form (links below).
Step 2) Make a Deposit Directly to Your Farm
Once you complete and submit your enrollement form, you must pay your deposit right away in order to secure your share. The amount required varies by farm and is listed on your enrollment form. All our farms offer a payment installment plan for the season so you do not have to pay the full amount up front. If you need additional financial assistance, let your farmer and HFFA know so we can work with you to make arrangements.
Payments by check can be mailed directly to your farmer at the address listed on your form. Some farms also offer options to pay with Credit Card, Venmo, Cash, etc. Contact your farmer to inquire and make arrangements.
For instructions on how to pay with EBT, email info@healthyfoodforall.org or call (607) 241-0469.
Step 3) Confirm Your Share
Once enrolled in a farm share, your farmer will be in direct contact with you to confirm your membership and will email you updates on produce availability throughout the season. If you have not heard from your farmer by the first pick up week, please reach out to them directly.
As a member through Healthy Food For All, you’ll also receive a membership confirmation email and monthly newsletters about cooking classes, food preservation workshops, community events, farm trips, and more.