Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) in Central Oregon

Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is more than just a vegetable subscription – it’s a partnership between farmers and the community members who believe in local food. Together, you share in the rewards and challenges of each growing season. In return, you’ll receive a weekly box filled with freshly harvested, locally grown produce that reflects the rhythms of the farm throughout the season.

As a CSA member, you become part of a relationship built on gratitude, trust, and transparency. Farmers rely on their communities to make local agriculture possible, and in return, members share in the bounty of reliable, fresh food grown close to home. Your early-season investment helps a farm thrive long before the first seeds sprout. Those funds go toward essential expenses like seeds, soil amendments, tools, and infrastructure – everything that keeps a small farm running. Each CSA member plays an integral role in the farm’s story, ensuring local farms can continue to grow, nourish our communities, and sustain our region. It’s a commitment to real food, grown in partnership with the land and the people who tend it.

In a world where food often feels distant and disconnected, knowing your farmer brings it back home. It transforms eating from a daily routine into an act of connection and care. When you know who grows your food, you gain insight into the values and growing practices that shape it – and that awareness is empowering. It deepens your relationship to what’s on your plate and allows you to make choices that align with your ethics, your health, and your sense of place.

Sign Up for Central Oregon CSAs:

Sungrounded Farm

North 44 Farm

Beyond the produce itself, CSAs offer a more personal way to experience the season. Many CSAs also come with perks beyond the goods: stories shared through newsletters, recipes, preservation tips, member-only access to special crops, and extra produce during peak season. Beyond these benefits, eating locally helps lower your food’s carbon footprint while keeping your dollars circulating in the community – supporting small businesses and building a stronger, more resilient local economy.

Across the course of the season, your share will change, following the natural shifts of the growing calendar. In early spring, you might find peas, radishes, and the first of spring’s greens. As the weather warms, those boxes become a colorful showcase of summer abundance – tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplants, squash,  bundles of herbs, and so much more. And as the season continues, late-summer and fall harvests bring hearty ingredients for cozy, nourishing meals: winter squash, leeks, potatoes, parsnips, and kale. Every week brings something a little different – a reminder of how dynamic and abundant Central Oregon’s growing season can be.

We’re fortunate to live in a region with a rich and vibrant farming community, offering something for everyone: vegetables, fruit, flowers, meat, eggs, herbs, and pantry staples. Many farms also provide sliding-scale options or accept SNAP/EBT benefits to make local food accessible for all, just ask your farmer!

Joining a CSA means more than choosing local produce; it’s choosing to participate in a local food movement and thriving farm network. It’s a way to savor what grows close to home, choose sustainability, strengthen our local economy, and build lasting, meaningful relationships. 

As fields thaw and planting begins, now is the perfect time to join a CSA. Your membership helps sustain local agriculture while filling your kitchen with an abundance of seasonal food that connects you to the heart of your region. 

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