We are SO EXCITED to be partnering with Hoaglund Homestead to offer a maple syrup CSA share this season! This option gets you a monthly bottle (16 fl oz) of maple syrup. Eight bottles total. If you choose to get a Vegetable CSA share from Agate Acres as well, the bottle will be added to your box on the first and third Wednesday of each month.
Here is a bit about Hoaglund Homested:
Our family's maple syrup comes from a small sugarbush overlooking Lake Superior, between Lutsen and Grand Marais. Like Emily and Kyle, we're just getting started, and we're so excited to share the fruits, or sweets as it were, of our labors.
We make our syrup the old-fashioned way, over a woodfire and surrounded by friends and family. We'd like to think that you can taste the place and all of the hard work put into it, but really it's just darn good syrup.
2022 Maple Syrup CSA share - BIWEEKLY
Agate Acres Farm CSA Member Terms & Conditions
*Applies to vegetable, flower, and syrup members*
CSA Definition
“Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a production and marketing model whereby consumers buy shares of a farm’s harvest in advance. Consumers become CSA members by paying an agreed amount at the beginning of the growing season. This upfront payment helps buy the seed and other inputs needed for the season and provides the farmer an immediate income to begin the season. By paying at the beginning of the season, CSA members share in the risk of production and relieve the farmer of much of the time needed for marketing. This allows the farmer to concentrate on good land stewardship and growing high quality food.” -NC State Extension.
Shared Commitments
Agate Acres Farm agrees to provide vegetables (vegetable CSA members), flowers (flower CSA members), and other products (ie, maple syrup, etc) during our set season. For 2022, this season runs from Jun 22, 2022 until Sep 28, 2022, with weekly box deliveries on Wednesdays.
Risk
We grow a very large variety of vegetables and flowers, as to reduce the risk posed by unpredictable weather, pests, and drought. Both Agate Acres Farm and CSAmembers share the risk of partial or complete crop shortages and/or failures.
Surplus
It is also likely that because of the diversity of vegetables and flowers grown there is a chance of a surplus for some products. Both Agate Acres Farm and CSA members share in the surplus of high yields and extra product.
Variety in Box
Due to the nature of seasonality and growing at such a northern latitude, the size and number of items in members boxes will fluctuate throughout the growing season.
Picking Up Your Weekly Share
Shares will be at their designated drop sites on Wednesday afternoons. All shares must be picked up by 9pm. After that are not picked up by 9pm will be donated. See the table below for your designated dropsite. You are responsible for picking up your share from your designated location. If you are NOT able to pick up the share (ie, vacation, sickness, work, etc), it is your responsibility to find someone else to pick it up.
Drop Site
Time of Arrival on Wednesday
Agate Acres Farm
2:00pm
Two Harbors - Cedar Coffee Co
2:30pm
Beaver Bay - Red Raven North
3:30pm
Tofte - Birch Grove School (shed)
4:30pm
Weekly Box Return
Your vegetable CSA will arrive in a plastic tote box. Please return this tote box to the drop site prior to the next Wednesday. All boxes must be returned clean!! Clean means that the box has been rinsed and dried. Dirty boxes mean that your farmers have to spend lots of very precious time cleaning boxes. We spray boxes each week with a food safe, vinegar based disinfectant.
Communications
We will communicate with you via email primarily. Please designate one person to be the point of contact for your membership (particularly if you share membership with two or more households). The person will also be responsible for reading the weekly newsletter. Reading the newsletter is very important as this is where we will communicate updates.
Do not call drop site businesses if you are going to not be able to pick up your box. Communicate with the farm please.
Payment
Payment for CSA membership is due at the time of purchase from our website. Memberships are non-refundable, any full or partial refund is at the sole discretion of Agate Acres Farm. If you wish to transfer your membership to a 3rd party, please email farm@agateacres.com. Transfer of your share to a 3rd party requires written permission via email from Agate Acres Farm.
Privacy Policy
Agate Acres Farm will not sell your private information.
