2022 CSA Round Up!

 

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Happy #CSAWeek!

So you’re interested in a CSA?

We’ve rounded up all the CSA details we could find!

>>This post is a round up of local CSAs. If you would like to know what a CSA is or how to choose one, please start by reading our recent post, “Let's Pick a CSA”<<

The list is organized into PRODUCERS [P] and AGGREGATORS [A]. What's the difference?

• Producers are farms and businesses cultivating, raising, and making the products they offer. This can include but is not limited to fruit and vegetable production, animal husbandry (breeding, raising, and caring for farm animals), baking, fermenting, and preserving. Look for the P after their business name.
• Aggregators are businesses that work with producers and wholesalers to build an inventory of products. Aggregators are packaging products sourced from multiple vendors. Aggregators may even work with some of the producers listed here. Look for the A after their business name.

Note that some producers may bring in a few items from other producers to fill out their share. If a business is producing the majority of their own products, we noted them as a producer.

When it comes to producers and aggregators, one is not better than the other. Your CSA decision should be based on your personal food values budget and lifestyle. There is no one size fits all CSA. Remember, producers are people! Farmers are open to your questions and love to share about what they do. No question is a dumb question. 

Now is the time to get to #knowyourfarmer and start eating more local food. Happy hunting!

This list is limited to producers that folks at MAP know about. There are definitely more options! Farmers, please email us with updates, missing information and farms to add. We will update accordingly. THANKS!

WNY CSA Options A-Z

African Heritage Food Co-op [A]

African Heritage Food Co-op is a member-owned produce business with a retail location in Niagara Falls, home delivery in Buffalo, mobile locations in Buffalo during the summer, and coming soon! a new retail location in Buffalo's Fruit Belt. AHFC offers a monthly buy-in program where you can purchase a whole or half box of conventional or organic produce for pick up or delivery. There is no subscription, opt in when needed. Membership is encouraged but not required.

AHFC contact info: Website    Facebook    Instagram    Twitter

Becker Farms & Vizcarra Vineyards [P]

Becker Farms and Vizcarra Vineyards is a farm, brewery, and vineyard located in Gasport, that features fruits and vegetables, u-pick patches, event space, and a customizable CSA. Becker Farms offers a small share and a large share with flexible payment options and full and partial season subscriptions. There are pickup locations across Buffalo and Niagara Falls. You can add Becker Farms baked goods, Vizcarra Vineyards wine, Becker Brewing Company Beer, jams, and fudge to your fruit and vegetable share!

Becker Farms contact info: Website    Facebook    Instagram    Twitter

Brewster Street Farm [P]

Brewster Street Farm - Journey's End Refugee Agricultural Program is a natural urban oasis operated by Journey's End Refugee Services, where produce is grown exclusively by area refugees taking part in the Green Shoots for New Americans Refugee Agricultural program. Brewster Street Farm's affordable CSA runs from June to October. You can also find their produce at farmers markets, including MAP’s Market at the Farmhouse, and local restaurants.

Brewster Street Farm contact info: Website    Facebook    Instagram    Twitter

Crown Hill Farm [P]

Crown Hill Farm is a beautiful historic farm home set on a hill in Eden, NY, with a view of Lake Erie from the front porch and 13-acres surrounded by organic hay fields, woods and a vineyard. Committed to diversity, honoring history and a passion for food, farm owner, Missy, grows all heirloom vegetables with mindful low/no-till methods and raises heritage chickens, ducks, geese and wool sheep on pasture.

Crown Hill has become a hub for a number of local food makers with multiple options for a bi-weekly CSA with pickups in Buffalo or on the farm. Shares can include: Crown Hill Farm Soy-Free, Pasture-Raised chicken or duck eggs, Crown Hill Farm Heirloom Produce, Flat#12 Gourmet Mushrooms, BABS of Buffalo Artisan Sausages made with local sustainable ingredients & The Savage Wheat Project Breads and Baker’s Baskets made with whole-ingredients and non-conventional wheats.

Crown Hill offers a Spring Share that is 12-weeks starting March 8th (6 pickups) and a Summer/Fall shares that is 22 weeks (11 pickups)

Crown Hill Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram 

Dirt Rich Farm [P]

Dirt Rich Farm located originally in East Aurora and now in Springville, is a USDA Certified Organic farm that believes good food comes from good soil. Growing a wide variety of traditional and heirloom vegetable varieties, this farm has everything you could possibly grow hungry for! Dirt Rich also offers a seasonal CSA, available for pickup in East Aurora, Springville, and at the Hamburg Farmers Market. In the Dirt Rich Farm CSA, you always get to choose exactly what vegetables you eat. Options include a Sampler Share, a Full Share AND a Tomato Share! Dirt Rich offers a summer share and a late fall share. Their produce is also available for sale at the East Aurora Cooperative Market and occasionally through Fresh Fix and at the MAP Market at the Farmhouse.

Dirt Rich Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

Dreamland CSA [P]

Dreamland is located in Eden NY on 14 acres of restorative meadows, forest and creek. Mindfully growing heirloom cut flowers, herbs and dye plants in addition to communal food gardens and an orchard where are offerings are grown in loving reciprocity to the land and all beings. Dreamland CSA shares include bi-weekly shares of flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables. All shares are identical but offered in tiered pricing to meet your needs. Choose from Market, Meadowside, or Mutual Aid. You may also donate a CSA for mutual aid. Pickup your bi-weekly Dreamland share at the farm in Eden.

Dreamland CSA contact info: Website     Instagram

Erba Verde Farms [P]

Erba Verde Farms is a pasture-based farm located in Aurora, NY. Erba Verde offers grass-fed, no-grain, fresh milk shares. You can board a cow at Erba Verde Farms and pick up milk and yogurt at 7 different sites in Buffalo and surrounding suburbs, including MAP's Market at the Farmhouse on Thursdays. They also produce pasture-raised poultry, pork, and grass-fed beef found for sale on their website, at local restaurants and through FreshFix WNY. Frozen whole chickens, chicken cuts and bone broth made at MAP with Erba Verde chicken are all available at MAP's Market at the Farmhouse on Thursdays! 

Erba Verde Farms contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

Farmers & Artisans [A]

Farmers & Artisans is a grocer and bakery filled with locally-sourced goods. They offer in-person shopping, an online marketplace, and a wide selection of shares sourced from quality producers in WNY. Choose from produce, eggs, milk, fresh flowers, kombucha, and soup. Pick up right at their Snyder location on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Farmers & Artisans contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

5 Loaves Farm [P]

5 Loaves Farm goes beyond organic with their farm on Buffalo’s west side. This urban oasis produces an array of seasonal vegetables. They also tend chickens and honeybees! 5 Loaves Farm provides a 22-week CSA that offers a pay-as-you-can sliding scale payment option. You can find 5 Loaves Farm produce at their farmhouse on Fridays in the summer time, at the Bidwell Farmers Market, AND aboard MAP's Mobile Market. 

5 Loaves Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

Flat #12 Mushroom [P]

Flat #12 Mushrooms is an urban farm that produces gourmet mushrooms, year-round, right in the heart of Buffalo. They mainly produce oyster, Lion's Mane, shiitake, and chestnut mushrooms, with other gourmet options rotating in. You may have seen them at the Bidwell Farmers Market or tasted their mushrooms at local restaurants. Flat #12’s CSA includes 1lb of mushrooms available for weekly and bi-weekly pick up at their spot in Buffalo’s Black Rock neighborhood. The Chandler St location is also stocked with local produce and artisan options. You can also find Flat #12 Mushrooms at MAP's Market at the Farmhouse. 

Flat #12 Mushrooms contact info: Website    Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

The Flower Stand [P]

The Flower Stand is a unique country getaway, located south of Buffalo, in Springville, NY. This location boasts groomed aisles of seasonal blooms, flush with pollinating bees and fluttering butterflies. The Flower Stand is open for u-pick throughout the summer and offers a flower CSA that you can pick up on the farm. Their CSA program offers a striking alternative to imported grocery store and flower shop bouquets that are traditionally truck shipped, packaged, preserved, fumigated or refrigerated for an extended period before you get them. Fresher flowers are healthier and generally live much longer than their counterparts. Members receive a bucket of fresh-cut flowers, ready for you to design into one large or several mini arrangements.

The Flower Stand contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

FreshFix [A]

FreshFix is a family-owned and operated business that seeks to link the Buffalo community to fresh and local produce year-round. Working with area farmers, producers, and distributors, FreshFix curates weekly produce, meat, and artisan product subscription service that meets personalized food needs, delivering each box right to your door! Boxes are customizable and flexible, making this a great option for busy and on-the-go types. With FreshFix, you have the option to pay it forward by purchasing a box for someone in need. FreshFix also partners with Massachusetts Avenue Project to make their produce options available to folks utilizing SNAP at MAP Mobile Market locations in the City of Buffalo.

FreshFix contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

George's Produce Market [A]

George’s Produce Market is a small grocery located in Williamsville, NY. They offer a weekly produce box of vegetables and fruit including local and seasonal options. You can buy in using the form on their Facebook page. Pickup is on Saturdays.

George’s Produce Market contact info: Facebook     Instagram

Green Heron Growers [P]

Green Heron Growers are located in Sherman, NY. They focus on grass-fed beef, GMO and nitrate-free pork, and organic chicken, as well as shiitake mushrooms and heirloom vegetables. The Heron offers Taste of the Farm protein boxes for purchase online anytime for pickup at seasonal markets or at their Farm Store in Sherman. They also offer home delivery in Chautauqua County, the Buffalo/Williamsville, NY and Erie, PA regions.

Green Heron Growers contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram 

Groundwork Market Garden [P]

Groundwork Market Garden is a USDA Certified Organic urban farm on Buffalo's east side. They grow over 50 varieties for their CSA, farm stand, farmers markets, and restaurants. Their full-size share includes 8-12 items weekly. Groundwork's CSA season runs June-October and pickups are on Tuesdays, right on the farm.

Groundwork Market Garden contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram 

Native Offerings Farm [P]

Native Offerings Farm is a USDA Certified Organic farm located in Little Valley, NY. Fun Fact: Native Offerings is the longest-running CSA in Erie County! You may recognize these farmers from the weekly Bidwell Farmers Market. They have a traditional summer vegetable share available in individual, small, and large sizes, fruit and beef shares, as well as an option to extend the veggie season through December. They even have a Seedling Share for those growing their own food at home! Native Offerings has pickup locations at their farm, on the west side of Buffalo and in Orchard Park, making connecting with this incredible farm convenient for many.

Native Offerings Farm contact info: Website     Facebook 

Nickel City Floral [P]

Nickel City Floral operates in conjunction with 5 Loaves Farm to offer hand-tied bouquets of fresh flowers in 4- or 10-week subscriptions. Floral arrangements are grower’s choice, made from the freshest blooms in season. Their flower share runs May-October with flexible opt-in arrangements for Monday pickups on the west side of Buffalo.

Nickel City Floral contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

Oles Family Farm Promised Land CSA [P]

Oles Family Farm is a fourth-generation farm located in Alden, NY. Their lush fields are full of fruits and veggies, a 600-tap sugarbush, and active pastures where our animals graze. The Oles Family offers their Promised Land CSA to over 200 members annually. The Promised Land CSA is a diverse veggie share with a locally-sourced fruit share option. You can subscribe weekly or bi-weekly in the summer and bi-weekly or monthly in the winter. They accept cash, check or credit card for their share.

Oles Family Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

Peaceweaver Organic Farm [P]

Peaceweaver Farm is located in Bath, NY. Their organic vegetable share comes in full or half-size and runs mid-June through mid-October. Peaceweaver offers working or nonworking memberships. Working memberships require two hours of farm support per week and members receive their share at the farm. Non Working members can pick up their share at locations around Buffalo and Rochester, including the Elmwood Village, Williamsville, and Snyder. All members receive a weekly email with the harvest list, cooking tips and recipes for the veggies in your Farm Share.

Peaceweaver Organic Farm contact info: Website     Facebook 

Plato Dale Farm [P]

Plato Dale Farm sustainable rural farm located in Arcade, NY. They raise grass-fed Jersey cows, pastured chickens, and organic vegetables. In 2020, Plato Dale began offering a 22-week home delivery subscription service delivered weekly or bi-weekly. Their share options include produce, eggs, meat, sourdough and more.

Plato Dale also offers a long-standing market-based CSA that allows both the benefits of CSA membership through a “buy-down account” spent at their stand at the farmer’s market. They attend the Bidwell Farmers Market and the Williamsville Farmers Market, mid-May through November. You may also use your account at their farm stand weekly (May-Nov) and online (wintertime). Members can receive up to 20% discount for purchasing credits ahead of time and have the freedom to spend them on anything the farm brings to market.
Plato Dale Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

Porter Farms [P]

Porter Farms CSA is a 3rd generation, certified-organic, family farm in Elba, NY that celebrated their 25th Anniversary of their CSA in 2020! Pioneers in the local organic movement, the Porter family grows the staples your family needs to eat healthy, organic produce without breaking your budget. They offer both Small and Full shares with Saturday distribution to over 10 sites in the Buffalo area, including Kenmore, Amherst, and Clarence. They also have delivery options available to employers. You can also find Porter Farms produce aboard MAP's Mobile Market in the summertime!

Porter Farms CSA contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram     Twitter

Providence Farm Collective [P]

Providence Farm Collective (PFC) is addressing food scarcity and land inequity by providing Buffalo’s Somali Bantu refugee community with access to farming. In East Aurora, NY, as a collaborative effort of the Somali Bantu Community Organization of WNY, Providence Farm, and the East Aurora Huddle, farmers grow crops on eight acres of rural land. PFC is a place where generations of families, immigrant and native-born Western New Yorkers, urban and rural residents, worked side-by-side toward a common goal of fresh, affordable food. PFC's CSA is scheduled to run for ten weeks. Members pick up their bounty weekly on Mondays from 3-6 pm in Orchard Park.

Providence Farm Collective contact info: Website     CSA     Facebook

Root Down Farms [P]

Root Down Farms is located in Clarence Center, NY. Produce at Root Down is grown using organic standards and without synthetic or artificial pesticides, herbicides or fungicides. CSA members choose from small and large shares. Members pick up at the farm weekly where they can access a generous u-pick garden that includes vegetables, herbs, and flowers. With u-pick you get a chance to pick and harvest what you want, in the quantities you need. Shares are picked up on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Root Down’s CSA is full for the season, so add your name to the waitlist or find them on social media to stay tuned for next year’s share availability.

Root Down’s contact info Website    Facebook    Instagram

Sitka Salmon Shares

Sitka Salmon is a collective of fishermen who home-deliver shares of premium, sustainable, wild Alaskan seafood harvest. By joining their community-supported fishery (CSF), you become a member of Sitka's merry small-boat fishing family, distributed from a new WNY hub.

Sitka Salmon Shares contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

Thorpe’s Organic Family Farm [P]

Thorpe’s is a certified organic farm located in East Aurora, NY. Thorpe’s offers a roadside farm stand, u-pick fruit, and weekly CSA. CSA shares are available for summer and winter for pick up at the farm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Members choose from fruit, small veggie, and large veggie shares. Thorpes also operates a small citrus farm in Florida and includes citrus fruit and orange juice in their winter share options.

Thorpe’s contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram 

West Side Tilth Farm [P]

WestSide Tilth Farm is an urban farm located on Buffalo’s west side. They grow a large variety of vegetables, as well as microgreens and oyster mushrooms. All of their produce is grown using sustainable and organic practices in all imported soil separate from the city soil. West Side Tilth’s CSA runs June through November. Pick up is on a weekly basis, on Saturdays, right at the farm. They offer full and small size shares.

West Side Tilth Farm contact info: Website     Facebook     Instagram

List updates and questions can be emailed to danielle@mass-ave.org.

Hi, Farmers & Aggregators!

If you would like to be included in our CSA post, please provide a short paragraph and links to websites and social media (if applicable).

If you're interested in a new drop site, MAP's Farmhouse is a great spot in the City of Buffalo.

• We are close to downtown, the 190 and 198/33
• We are open evenings
• We have folks on hand to staff your pick up; and
• We have plenty of cold storage available.
• We are available to greet your members and manage your list, too.

We work with two CSAs on Thursday evenings and have room for plenty more. Contact our Market Director, Danielle, to drop your boxes at MAP’s Farmhouse today.

Sip & CSA Day

Today's post was made in lieu of MAPs annual Sip & CSA Day farmer meet & greet event. Each year, we try to do something fun for #CSADay (now #CSAWeek) that supports y'all making awesome local food choices. We will miss seeing you all at our Farmhouse this winter but hope you will visit MAP's Market at the Farmhouse or a MAP Mobile Market location soon.

Check out images from the 2020 Sip & CSA Day event here.

More Support

• Reply to any of our #CSAWeek posts on your favorite social media for more information.
• Join Find Your Farmer in WNY on Facebook to ask questions and read posts from local farmers.
• Check out Local Harvest online for listings from many local farms
• Search #CSAWeek on social media to read posts from farms across the U.S.
• Pencil in the 2023 Sip & CSA Day event, held annually during #CSAWeek