What is a CSA?
Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is simply that – a farming model built around you, the consumer, and your community. Angell’s Farmstead & Apiary isn’t part of NAFTA, we don’t sell nationally or internationally – we sell locally…very locally to our surrounding communities. CSA members commit to buying fresh farm produce for a season, so that we, your farmer, know how much to grow. This is called your share—and your farmer commits to growing that food for you. This agreement ensures a steady stream of freshly harvested vegetables for you and a livelihood for a small family farm.
Why Angell’s Farmstead & Apiary?
Here on the farm, we sell what we grow. This might seem obvious, but many CSA’s actually supplement with vegetables from other regions or farms so that they can have a CSA year round. We don’t do that. If we sell it, we grew it. If you buy from our farm, we grew it on our farm. With that said, our vegetables are seasonal. We don’t sell zucchini squash in January because zucchini – a warm weather vegetable – simply doesn’t grow in southeast Texas in January. With that being said, we do utilize our high tunnels to extend the growing season, so….for example, you may get tomatoes late in the Fall or early in Spring. At Angell’s Farmstead & Apiary we do not use chemical pesticides or unnatural fertilizers. We grow your food using organic, sustainable methods, although we have not gone through the certification process. That process is simply too expensive and time consuming at this time. However, we are researching the certification and considering it in the future. Regardless of the bureaucracy behind certified organic, we grow your food using sustainable, natural methods. Please feel free to contact us and tour our farm.
How does Angell’s Farmstead & Apiary CSA work?
Compared to many, our CSA is different. The standard CSA model requires members to purchase the veggies in advance of the season. That way the risk is shared by all CSA members and the farm. That’s not how our CSA model works. Prior to the season, all members pay a small, non-refundable fee of $30. This helps with the purchase of the required seeds and essential items needed for the season. As the seasonal vegetables are harvested, members agree to purchase the weekly or bi-weekly vegetable share.
Weekly shares are $25 and bi-weekly shares are $30. All shares will contain the same items. Occasionally, we will have add-on items available. These add-on items might be extra vegetables, eggs from our chickens, or a pint of our delicious honey. As of now, we won’t ask for you to sign any contract. We just ask that you commit to a share size option and honor your word – one family to another. Please see our Member Agreement page for further details.
Where do CSA members pickup their share?
We have a pick-up locations in the Bryan/College Station area, Anderson, Huntsville, and The Woodlands/Montgomery area. Additionally, you can pickup your share on our farm. Don’t see your city on our list? Let us know where you are and if we can garner more members in your area we will add it to our destination list!
Below are some Frequently Asked Questions regarding our CSA.
- Bryan/College Station
- Anderson
- Huntsville
- Montgomery
- The Woodlands (temporarily picking up in Montgomery for Spring 2022)
- At the farm