How Colchester Farm CSA Works
2 harvest days a week for 26 weeks, 150 members, and over 40 different kinds of vegetables, herbs, and fruit
Harvesting
We plan on harvesting on Tuesdays and Fridays. CSA staff and sometimes volunteers spend the morning and some of the afternoon harvesting, washing, and packing vegetables in preparation for the CSA distribution later in the day.
Delivery and pick-up
Having started out pretty modestly, our delivery and pickup locations have grown over the years. Some members will pick up at the Farm, others in Chestertown, some Dover, and some in Wye Mills.
Tuesday’s harvest goes to Chestertown:
Kingstown Garden Center – we arrive around 3:30pm or so to have time to set up and put out the produce we have available that day. Then from 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm we invite our members to select their weekly share of produce according to the number of units they had signed up for. We set up outside the building in the shade under the trees in the southern parking lot of the garden center. There is plenty of parking space and we are eternally grateful to Liz Starkey for permission to use the space for our weekly pick-up location.
Wye Mills location – Early on Wednesday mornings a volunteer will pick up the boxes we will have prepared the day before for delivery to the members who pick up their share at the Wye Center.
Friday’s harvest is distributed at the farm:
Members who find it convenient, or pleasurable, or interesting, come to the Farm to pick up between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Friday afternoon. Turn off Route 213 onto Georgetown Cemetery Road, and venture back about a half mile of dirt road to the ‘veggie shed’ where we will have the vegetables laid out on tables for members to choose from. This often turns out to be a bit of a social event with members exchanging news, gossip, and, of course, recipes.
Chestertown Farmers’ Market
What started out as an outlet for excess produces has developed into an important source of income for us. Needless to say, estimating exactly how much to plant and how much to harvest is a fine art, but now we plant a little extra to make sure we have something to sell at the Farmers’ Market in Chestertown from 8:00 until noon on Saturday mornings.
Donating Food
If we still have produce left over, we'll donate it to a homeless shelter or food pantry.
Interesting in helping? We welcome volunteers.
For more information please contact us through email or call:
Theresa Mycek, CSA Manager, at 410-648-5609
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 191, Georgetown, MD 21930
Physical Address: 31285 Georgetown Cemetery Road, Galena, MD 21635
Colchester Farm | P.O. Box 191 | Georgetown MD 21930 | (at 31285 Georgetown Cemetery Rd)
Site Designed by Theresa Mycek
Updated February 10, 2010
