FAQ

CSA stands for community supported agriculture.

It means people, like you, buy direct from farmers in order to get premium produce exclusively reserved and hand-picked for you before being made available to anyone else.

A CSA program ensures that small farms can keep doing their small farm thing and families can keep receiving local, in-season, quality food grown right in their own city limits.

If you know there’s a difference between homegrown tomatoes and grocery store tomatoes, a CSA is probably right up your ally. Partnering with local growers gives you access to a higher calibre product (did you know the amount of minerals in the soil dictate how many minerals end up in your carrot?) while you put your hard earned money back into your own local economy.

Boxes are available weekly mid-May through mid-October. 

Come by Elm Farm on Thursdays from 3-7pm. Your box will be waiting for you on the produce wall at the Trading Post.

961 S. Elm St., Marshfield, MO 65706 

We practice beyond organic, no till, and regenerative growing. We do not use synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fungicide sprays at our farm.

Receiving organic certification isn’t the standard we strive to achieve. Since we don’t use any of the fertilizers and pest sprays that are “approved for organic growing,” we feel confident in remaining uncertified, knowing that our fruits and vegetables are never sprayed.

Every garden is a mini-ecosystem and bugs, weeds, and fungi are an important part of that climate. Food coming out of a natural environment won’t look like the food on the grocery store shelves. And that’s the good news, because our vegetables don’t need photoshopped to taste out of this world.

Since we do not use pesticides, you’ll just need to rinse off the dirt.

There is a $200 non-refundable deposit to reserve your box.

After the deposit, there is a weekly charge of $20 to ensure your box is filled with fresh veggies every week from mid-May through mid-October.

Just be sure to click the box that says automatic charge so you don’t have to fill out your information each week.

You can cancel your subscription at any time, just send us an email or give us a call to let us know.

There is a $50 cancellation fee because joining a CSA is a commitment between you and the farmer. (The $200 deposit at the beginning of the season is non-refundable)

In lieu of skipping a week because you’re going on vacation, gift that week’s box to a friend or a family in need. Just give us a heads up that someone else is picking up the box!  

You may not. This box is so nice that we want to fill it up for you again and again. Boxes, like batteries, are sold separately.

Yes. 

Please have your box ready to return when you pick up your next box. 

This is one of the ways we reduce waste and keep costs down for our members. 

If you receive any quart or pint produce containers, egg cartons or herb tubes, please return them with your box. 

Boxes start mid-May 2024. Join the harvest.