How to go about picking up your share?
1. Only pick up on your designated pickup day: You cannot pick up on another pickup day as we only have as many shares as we have members signed up for each pickup day. If you can’t pick up on your pickup day, ask a friend to pick up your share for you. If you are going to be gone for a extended period, place an ad on our bulletin board or on Facebook page to sell your share to someone who may be looking for extra shares.
2. Don’t park illegally: please respect our neighbors’ parking areas and avoid hefty fines. Check our parking map.
3. Bring your own bags to gather your produce. In the spirit of recycling and to keep costs down, we do not provide bags. However, we have an “I-Forgot-My-Bag” chest where members can donate paper and plastic grocery bags, for those who forget their bags.
4. Check your name on the check-in sheet by the produce line. The check-in sheet also lets you know if we need to talk to you or if we have something for you.
5. Grab our weekly newsletter: We do our best to provide one every week. It includes recipes, information about your produce, and news about the CSA. The newsletter is also available online.
6. Collecting your share: We handle the produce as little as possible and we would like you to do the same. Please do not pick through items to get the best-looking ones. Our vegetables are bred for flavor, not for looks or shelf-life—therefore, they tend to bruise and spoil when handled repeatedly. Please just take the quantity or portion indicated on the box and move along to the next box.
7. Take your whole share: Not more, not less. When you take more, you take from someone else’s share. When you take less, you create leftovers. If you don’t want something, either trade it in the trading baskets, or donate it to the surplus baskets for another member to enjoy.
8. Counting: Sometimes you have to count items for your share. Please count the exact amount. Taking more than your portion means that members who pick up later may be shorted.
9. Trading baskets: Trade items you don’t want in the trading baskets, not in the boxes on the pickup tables. Also, please trade whole portions, not partial portions. A portion is the amount of any produce that you are supposed to take that week.
10. Surplus baskets: If you don’t want something that is in your share and there is nothing interesting to trade it with in the trading basket, leave it in the surplus basket for another member’s enjoyment. Unlike the items in the trading baskets, surplus goodies are free for all (within reason) and may include farm extras, leftovers from a previous pickup, surplus from members’ gardens, or unwanted items from members’ shares.