CSA - Hermit Thrush Homestead

2025 CSA INFO IS HERE!
We will still be growing the same delicious vegetables, berries, and eggs and selling them at our farmstand on Hinesburg Rd in Guilford (May- early November) and through the Neighborhood Roots Buying Club in Guilford.

What is a CSA?

Community Supported Agriculture or, CSAs, connect consumers to farmers in a mutually beneficial relationship. The farmer asks members to buy shares from the farm at the beginning of the season, and in exchange, members receive freshly picked produce and herbs throughout the growing season. In this way, members play a vital role in supporting small farm viability, providing the farmer with a known market for their product, and sharing in the bounty of delicious, fresh, local, produce all season long.

Why Join a CSA?

Joining a CSA is a great way to support local agriculture in your community. It's also an affordable way to eat fresh delicious food throughout the growing season. Our CSA share provides local, organic products to members at an average 10-15% discount to market value. Be an active eater, support the local economy, become an integral link in the food web that supports you, join our CSA!

What's in a Share?

Seasonal variability effects when certain crops will be available, but the following is a list of what items you can expect throughout the summer and fall:

June- rainbow chard, kale, lettuce, salad mix, spinach, baby beets, peas, bok choi, mizuna, sprouts, pea shoots, scallions, radishes

July- beets, carrots, new potatoes, green beans, turnips, kohlrabi, zucchini, cucumbers, summer squash, garlic scapes, lettuce, chard, salad mix, fresh herbs

August- tomatoes, green beans, eggplant, peppers, summer squash, tomatillos, watermelon, leeks, onions, broccoli, kale, flowers, fresh herbs

September- tomatoes, popping corn, cabbage, bok choi, brussel sprouts, celeriac, daikon radish, rutabaga, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cauliflower

October- beets, brussels sprouts, broccoli, carrots, chard, kale, spinach, potatoes, winter squash, pickles, pumpkins, apples

November- beets, brussel sprouts, cabbage, carrots, collard greens, kale, bok choi, tatsoi, spinach, potatoes, onions, garlic, leeks, winter squash

Some crops, such as greens, herbs, and salad fixings, will be part of the share throughout the season.

Member Information

Our Farmstand CSA is completely free-choice. You can pick up any day of the week at our farm stand on Hinesburg Rd, anytime of day. There is no set quantity from week to week, so you can pick up as much as you want, whenever you want. In exchange for your membership, you receive free credit at the farm stand, so everything you buy at the farm stand is essentially discounted throughout the season.

~2025 Dates~
The Farmstand CSA runs from mid-May through early-November, as our farmstand is open.

~Pick-up and Delivery~
During the summer season pick-up is available everyday at the farm stand on Hinesburg Rd in Guilford, VT.

Prices (Summer 2025)

We are offering a simplified CSA share this year.
You Pay You Get
Farmstand CSA $100 $110 credit

Joining the Farmstand CSA gives you an approximate 10% discount for paying in advance! Your membership helps the farm to pay for early season expenditures like seeds, potting soil, fertilizers, and equipment repairs. Joining the CSA also helps to limit the cash coming through the farm stand on a daily basis (reducing theft) The Farmstand CSA share gives you the flexibility to pay more or less through the season depending on how fast you are going through your credit. When you’ve exhausted your CSA credit, pay another $100 to get the $10 extra credit, or go to a simple tab system (any amount, no extra credit).

If you feel moved to help with early farm expenditures and help support our farm, you can sign up for a CSA share today by sending a check, made payable to “Margaret Stoltzman”, to 4615 Green River Rd, Brattleboro, VT 05301. Or, pay through Venmo or Paypal. Please be sure to include your contact info (Name, mailing address, email address, phone number) with any payment.

We feel the cost of our CSA share is competitive with grocery store prices and we strive to make our food available to everyone at an affordable price. If you would like to join but you cannot pay the full fee, talk to us. We are happy to offer payment plans, working member discounts, and subsidized shares for low-income families through the NOFA farmshare program, to make our food accessible to everyone.

The NOFA farmshare program subsidizes CSA shares for our neighbors who otherwise could not afford to join our CSA. Through the program, NOFA-VT will match each dollar that our CSA raises to offer reduced rates to income eligible individuals and families. You can help low-income families eat well all summer long and support our farm by making a tax-deductable donation to NOFA-VT, just remember to write "Hermit Thrush Homestead" in the memo, then NOFA will match the donation and grant it back to our farm. Or, click on the link below to donate on-line through the NOFA website.

Donate to NOFA Farmshare

What our members are saying

"Thank you so much. I can't believe I've waited this long to join a CSA. The tomatoes (sungold) were out of this world good! The amaranth is in a vase decorating my dining table. Really pleased with everything. Japanese cucumbers...where have they been all my life?! I couldn't stop eating them."
-2012 and 2013 summer CSA member

Why sign up early?

Even though it may not feel like it, the growing season starts early, before the snow melts and before the birds return from the south (our onions and leeks are already growing in February, but won't be harvested until late August and September!). By signing up for our CSA early, you help us pay for essential supplies like seeds, potting soil, and soil amendments, allowing us to do the best possible job we can to grow beautiful healthy food for you, your family, and our community. You also help us plan for the season, knowing how many people want to eat our food, helps us know how much we should grow!

Still have questions? Check out our
FAQs page for answers to our most commonly asked questions.

Interested in joining our CSA? Please email or send a note with your full name, address, email, phone number, and a check payable to "Margaret Stoltzman" to Hermit Thrush Homestead, 4615 Green River Rd, Brattleboro, VT 05301. Or you can pay via Venmo or Paypal. Click the links on the website, or email Meggie to have a payment request link sent directly to your Inbox.

Still have questions? Check out our FAQs page, or, fill in your contact info below, ask questions, sign up! Email Meggie at: [email protected]

2025 CSA INFO IS HERE!We will still be growing the same delicious vegetables, berries, and eggs and selling them at our farmstand on Hinesburg Rd in Guilford (May- early November) and through the Neighborhood Roots Buying Club in Guilford.