We are happy to pack a farmer’s choice CSA bag for members who can’t make a Wednesday pickup. Contact us by email before 6pm on Wednesday so that we can select your produce before the end of the pickup. The items in your bag will mostly be up to the farmer’s discretion, but you can request 3-4 items specifically from the weekly list. We will always ensure you have a balanced selection of cooking greens, roots, salad fixings, and snack options. Late pickup bags will be left labeled for members in an easily accessible location to grab later Wednesday, or anytime Thursday-Saturday. This option is for occasional use throughout the season. If you consistently cannot make the Wednesday pickup window, we suggest our farmer’s choice box share which has a much wider and more flexible pickup schedule. 

If you are going to be away for part of the harvest season, we also encourage you to have friends or family pick up your share in your stead. Off weeks / vacations are a great opportunity to give the gift of the CSA experience to someone you love. Just have them sign your name at pickup and check in with a farmer so they know our systems.

We will not be offering make-up weeks this season, and generally we don’t allow taking extra veggies to make up for missed weeks, otherwise harvest planning becomes too complicated.

No, the CSA is a full-season commitment. We are open as a farmstand, so you are always welcome to shop weekly or periodically that way, though not all items will be available to farmstand customers. The CSA will always be the best value.

We do not offer refunds except in rare circumstances. The farm relies on CSA income for the up-front costs of production. Similarly, we ask that you make a full-season commitment to the CSA, even if you sign up to pay in installments.

Yes. We ask you to handle the details on your end and sign up under one name. The alternate household can sign in on their weeks under the sign-up name. We also ask that all households picking up share attend an orientation.

We are also offering a limited number of biweekly shares this season for those who prefer to pick up every other week.

We maintain a community support fund as a way of making our CSA more accessible to our community. Think of this as a sliding scale. If you are financially able, when you register, we would love for folks to give within their means to our Community Support Fund. If the share price is prohibitive for you, email us at wintersisterfarm@gmail.com and we will redistribute some of the money given to the fund to cover a portion of your share cost. 

We also offer monthly payment schedules to spread out the cost, and accept EBT/SNAP payment.

The short answer is that we sat down with our operating expenses spreadsheet and our crop plan and figured out how many shares we could grow on the space we have, and how much money we’d need to meet our overhead costs and pay ourselves the minimum we need in order to farm another season. For us, the increase is a reflection of what we’ve learned over the past three seasons about the real costs of our materials, equipment and most importantly, skilled labor at a living wage.

2025-2026 CSA season will have 2 potential start dates:

• our main 23-week season will run from November 19 - May 13

• a delayed start 19-week option will run December 17 - May 13

We will have three break weeks in the season when the farm will be closed to give the farmers and fields a small rest:

• We will be closed Dec 31st, February 18th, and April 1st

Free-choice pickups will be on Wednesday ONLY this year. Pickup will run from 1pm-6:30pm.

Box share pickup will be available Thursday-Saturday.