The 2011 CSA is now taking orders! Our prices and shares are the same as 2010. Please use the 2010 brochure as a guide until we update the website. Thank you for supporting local farms 
Starters planted at Heywood Gardens, 5707 Heywood Rd, for the Erie Fresh CSA 2010 season.
As the seasons endure, the warm weather brings the promise of fresh local food! Entering their second year in operation, Erie County Coalition for Local Resources (ECCLR) will again be operating the Erie Fresh multi-grower community supported agriculture program for the 2010 season. Join today and receive 22 weeks worth of locally-produced food from our farmers starting the first week of June and ending the last week of October. Download our brochure as a PDF file below.
The Erie Fresh CSA is offering the same shares that were available for the 2009 season, and will also take orders for a certified-organic grain share – 25lb of milled spelt flour – and a pastured-raised beef share on special order only. We are limited to 50 fruit and vegetable shares for 2010. First come, first served! Please email eriefresh@gmail.com if you’re interested in securing a share. Thank you for investing with Local Farmers!
Rachel Dauch (33) and her son Oliver (3) of Heywood Gardens planting herbs for the Erie Fresh 2010 CSA season. Heywood Gardens also sells potted flowers and vegetables in their greenhouse at 5707 Heywood Rd, and is a regular vendor at the Sandusky Farmers Market. (photo: The Art Studio/Joshua Pribanic)
Joshua Pribanic & Lauren Berlekamp, the co-founders of ECCLR will be giving a short informational speech about the benefits of community supported agriculture on Saturday April 24, from 2-3pm, at Mr. Smith’s Coffee House, 140 Columbus Avenue, downtown Sandusky. Please come with questions or recommendations and enjoy a freshly-brewed cup of coffee!
Fresh This Week – 10/31/09
See Our Farmers
Lauren Berlekamp of the Erie County Coalition for Local Resources talking about Community Supported Agriculture at the Sandusky Farmers Market.
Retail Prices vs. CSA
Eat and Save
How would you like to have fresh produce, grown for quality with you in mind, that is less expensive than shipped-in, store bought food – all the while contributing to the vitality of the community? Through a CSA, the Artisans of the Sandusky Farmers’ Market have come together to offer you the best they have on a weekly basis. We live in one of the most desirable climates for growing over thirty different food crops that the average American purchases on a weekly basis from the grocery store. By purchasing these needs through a CSA, you can save up to 30-50% on your food costs!
What is a CSA?
Erie Fresh CSA Share for 2009 Season.
The USDA defines a CSA as follows: “CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community’s farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Members or shareholders of the farm or garden pledge in advance to cover the anticipated costs of the farm operation and farmer’s salary. In return, they receive shares in the farm’s bounty throughout the growing season, as well as satisfaction gained from reconnecting to the land. Members also share in risks, including poor harvest due to unfavorable weather or pests.”
*Two common types of CSA’s are single grower and multi-grower. Because our Erie county farming community is working collectively to provide your share, risks for a poor harvest are minimum.
To join the Erie Fresh CSA in Erie County, OH – email: eriefresh@gmail.com or | Read Brochure |
Lauren Berlekamp of the Erie County Coalition for Local Resources distributing a flower share for the Erie Fresh CSA.
CSA Resources for Farmers
CSA definition from Iowa Resource
CSA in the news
To join a CSA in Erie County, OH – email: eriefresh@gmail.com or | Read Brochure |
Thank you for what you are so successfully doing. I wanted to subscribe to the newsletter, but my computer skills are still rudimentary and I couldn’t cut and paste to complete my consent and didn’t want to manually copy the information at that time. I will get to it eventually. Elaine Waterfield