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Community Supported Agriculture

You are cordially invited to share in the bounty of our harvest
while supporting local farmers.

Our Community Supported Agriculture program is a subscription-based produce cooperative which allows participants to receive regularly scheduled deliveries of farm-fresh produce and herbs throughout the summer growing season for much less than it would cost to purchase the same items at a grocery store.

Here's How It Works

  • Subscription rate is $500 for 20 weeks (May 15th through September)
  • Each week, you will be provided with a list of what will be included in the following week's ProducePak
  • Each ProducePak will include at least enough top-quality produce to feed an average family of four and will include a variety of vegetables, herbs, tomatoes, etc.
  • Add-ons can be included in your ProducePak at additional cost and can include any items we offer (including free-range eggs) to help complete your meal plans
  • ProducePaks will be delivered to your home on Friday afternoons
  • Recipes for unusual produce and a recipe exchange will be available on our website

What Will ProducePaks Include?

Items included in the ProducePaks will vary from week to week depending on what's ready for harvest and what's been planted that season. As a general rule, we plant the following:

Onions
(white, yellow, red)
Potatoes
(red, white, Yukon Gold)
Lettuce
(Butter Crunch, Red Sails, Galactic Red, Romaine)
Cauliflower
Broccoli
PacMan, Premium Crop, De Cisso
Squash
(Yellow Crookneck, Patty Pan)
Zucchini
Black Beauty, Rosa Bianca, Ichiban
Corn
(Silver Queen, Golden Queen, Honey Select, Peaches 'n Cream)
Beans
Blue Lake
Peas
(Purple Hull, Early, Sugar Snap)
Eggplant
(Black Beauty, Rosa Bianca, Ichiban)
Carrots
(Danver's Half-Long)
Okra
Clemson Spineless, Red)
Cantaloupe
Hale's Best, Rocky Ford
Watermelon
Sugar Baby, Jubilee
Peppers
(Sweet: Captain Bell, Yellow Bell, Red Belle.
Hot: Habanero, Jalapeno, Red Chili, and more)
Heirloom Tomatoes
Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Rudgers, Marion, Marglobe, Homestead, Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Sungold,
Green Zebra,
Hybrid Tomatoes
(Better Boy, Celebrity,
Roma,
Lemon Boy, Park's Whopper, and more)

Please contact Linda if you have additional questions
252-432-9118 basillady@melvinsgardens.com

To subscribe to the CSA program, please complete and print the application (click here) and mail it along with your check to:

Melvin's Gardens CSA
2863 Sims Bridge Road
Kittrell, NC 27544