Community Supported Agriculture

Reasons for subscribing to our family farm CSA:

• Knowing where and how your food is grown.
• Having your own personal farmers that you know on a first name basis
• Having someone who can answer your questions about produce and growing.
• Quicker service by knowing your produce will be packed and readily available at pick up (no more having to wait in line or fearing produce may be sold out)
• Sustaining a healthier way of life by knowing your produce is fresh picked daily on a local farm and not traveling across the United States or from another country on a dirty airplane or semi truck that has hauled who knows what else from who knows what other country and has been treated with post harvest chemicals and fungicides to prevent spoilage en route to get to your families table.
• Your opportunity to support local farm families, local agriculture and local communities.
• By supporting local farmers, your money stays within the local communities and does not support big corporate grocery stores, trucking companies, fuel companies and corporate farms 1000’s of miles away.

Our family produces a wide variety of farm products for our customers including small fruit, melons, vegetable crops as well as farm fresh brown eggs. This is a great opportunity to keep fresh, seasonal farm raised produce and eggs on your table all season long.

Due to the high taxes, insurance and fees imposed on organic farmers by government certification agencies, we are not certified organic. We do practice organic crop production methods, follow strict integrated pest management guidelines and use production practices that limit produce contamination from natural soil and air born diseases and insects. These practices include succession plantings (always harvesting young plantings), living cover crops, contamination barrier mulches, landscape fabric, organic mulches and plastic mulch to reduce weed growth and soil born disease transmission, composts for fertilizer, attraction of beneficial insects (good bugs that eat the bad bugs), frequent watering and feeding of our crops from our 3 million gallon pond (like humans, plants that eat and drink regularly are healthier and less susceptible to disease). We raise our livestock humanely and naturally in a cage free environment. We feel much better feeding our own children the food we raise on our farm, you should feel better as well knowing and seeing where your food comes from.

See our Flyer on the complete CSA program and what it can offer you !

Our CSA runs about 20 weeks from end of May/early June through mid/end of October (longer or shorter weather dependent) with produce fluctuating with the season. Your pick-up location will be at one of the following sites and days of your choice:

• Hyde Park Farmer’s Market (Cincinnati area) every Sunday.
• Pearl Alley Farmer’s Market (downtown Columbus) every Tuesday or Friday
• College Hill farmers Market (Cincinnati area) every Thursday
• Deerfield Township Farmers Market (Landen/Mason area) every Saturday
• Anderson Township Farmer’s Market (Cincinnati area) every Saturday
• Our home farm market location Monday, Wednesday and Saturday

A full share consists of a bushel bag filled with a variety of in-season produce as Mother Nature allows (see crop and availability list below). A half share is a ½ bushel bag. Shareholders also can sign up for our egg share where you will receive farm fresh brown eggs along with your produce share.

We can custom raise and grow additional farm items of your choice for our CSA members on a per order basis including: flowers, hanging baskets, garden plants, fall mums, Thanksgiving and/or Christmas turkeys, freezer chicken, honey and comb honey contact us for more information.

Full shares are available at $500/share ($25 a week) and half Shares at $250 ($12.50 a week). Partial season memberships are available for 10 week minimums. Memberships may be split into 2 payments, half at time of application and the other half with a check dated by March 1, 2010 (partial season shares not eligible for split payments). Make check payable to Bergefurds Farm Market.
 

Check out our CSA - (Frequently Asked CSA Question) section to help with your every day questions.

Also now with the CSA membership, you will receive a special invitation to our annual Family Fun Fall Festival in the second weekend in October. ( for more on the farm visit day see our flyer )