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Become a member of Healthy Food For All

About HFFA

Everybody Deserves a Fair Share of the Harvest!

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares provide a large quantity and variety of fresh organic produce to feed your family every week.

Our Audrey J Cooper CSA scholarship program offers historically excluded, zero to very low income households the opportunity to receive a share on a sliding scale or at no cost.

To learn more and apply, please email info@HealthyFoodForAll.org or call (607) 241-0469

About the Audrey J Cooper CSA Scholarship Fund

In honor of the life and legacy of Ms. Audrey, community leader and human rights advocate, Healthy Food For All established the Audrey J Cooper CSA Scholarship Fund to ensure no community member was excluded from experiencing the joys and nourishment of our local bounty. Ms. Audrey inspired HFFA from our inception to fight for healthy food as a human right.

Member Benefits

No Payment Necessary

HFFA members receive a scholarship to cover up to 100% of the cost of a CSA share. People in a position to make a financial contribution are welcome to do so, but not required.

Members who elect to use their SNAP benefits towards their CSA can do so at any time. Contact us for details on how to use your EBT card to help cover the cost of your produce.

FLOWER discount at GreenStar Co-op

HFFA members qualify for discounts to help you afford food, wellness and household items at GreenStar through the FLOWER program. Find out more here.

Free Cooking Classes & Member Events

As a member with Healthy Food For All, you will have the opportunity to join us at free cooking classes and member meals that celebrate our beautiful culinary diversity and showcase our seasonal local bounty. Join HFFA’s Whole Health and Nutrition Culinary Manager, Lechandre Mix, and fellow CSA members to build community through breaking bread. Fill your belly and nourish your soul with wholesome food grown and prepared with love.

Support Your Local Farmers

Regardless of whether an HFFA member makes a financial contribution towards the cost of their produce, Healthy Food For All pays local farms in full to cover their expenses of growing us the highest quality food to nourish our community. By joining HFFA and eating locally, you are helping to support local family-owned organic farms!

What is CSA

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in a nutshell:

CSA is a a model that connects consumers directly with local farmers in a mutually supportive and cooperative relationship. The aim is to provide financial security for farmers and offer fresh, high-quality food to community members. Typically consumers, referred to as “CSA members,” buy a seasonal share of a farm’s harvest in advance, averaging between $500-$700 for the summer season. With Healthy Food For All, our members receive a scholarship to cover the cost to help households with zero to very low income access local organic produce and have the opportunity to experience the joys and nourishment of local farms and food.

The credit for the introduction of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) concept – which has led to over 12,000 thriving CSA farms across the country today – most often goes to either European or Japanese models that were first adopted by two farms in the U.S. in 1986 in New England. But as is often the case with African American history, there is an overlooked story that tells us the credit should at the very least be shared with another pioneer whose contributions and ingenuity came years ahead of his time.

Dr. Booker T. Whatley was a prominent African American horticulturist, author and professor, born in Alabama in 1915 (d. 2005). Growing up in the South, Whatley witnessed firsthand the struggles, and subsequent decline, of black farm owners due to racist policies and land theft, and what he saw as an inability to compete with the growing industrialization of agriculture.

Beginning in the early 1970s, when the prevailing food system was saying “get big or get out,” Whatley encouraged “smaller and smarter” as the key to farm viability. He believed that small farms should leave the farming of commodity crops like cotton, corn and soybeans to larger industrial ag, and instead focus on a diversity of high value crops like berries and vegetables; specifically what “grows and sells well where you live”.

Whatley championed direct marketing: he recognized that the key to success didn’t just lay in growing great food, it was equally about selling it. Whatley’s innovative idea was to market to a loyal group of customer subscribers who would pay a membership fee to come to the farm to pick their own produce. He called these “clientele membership clubs”.

“The clientele membership club is the lifeblood of the whole setup. It enables the farmer to plan production, anticipate demand, and, of course, have a guaranteed market.” This is exactly the definition and value of what we know today as CSA’s.

Excerpt from Booker T. Whatley and the Untold History of CSA. For the full article:

https://www.bloomingglenfarm.com/booker-t-whatley-and-the-untold-history-of-csa/

CSA benefits members, farmers and the earth!

CSA members are guaranteed a supply of fresh, quality produce over the whole CSA growing season. In addition, when you become a member, 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.

CSA provides farmers with a guaranteed source of income to help them plan and cover the cost of growing food in ecologically and socially responsible ways. This arrangement eases their financial burden and boosts their viability and capacity to grow good, clean food for their community. And because HFFA’s farms use sustainable agricultural practices such as organic, biodynamic and regenerative farming, they are helping to protect our natural resources, improve water quality, help draw down greenhouse gases, increase biodiversity and restore ecosystems. By becoming a CSA member and participating in Community Supported Agriculture, you are supporting a food production and distribution model designed to heal our planet while nourishing our community, now and for generations to come.

Eligibility

Healthy Food For All’s CSA scholarship program is for historically excluded, zero to very low income households. To inquire about applying, please email info@HealthyFoodForAll.org or call (607) 241-0469.

Select a Farm

Are Summer-Fall CSA season is coming to a close. If you are seeking produce over the winter, please contact us!

info@HealthyFoodForAll.org or call (607) 241-0469

Information about Spring & Summer 2026 will be posted here as we get closer to the season. In the meantime, feel free to reach out anytime with questions or to request assistance.

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