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This Is How The CSA Program Works


Eating with the Seasons

You purchase a share of our vegetable harvest before the beginning of the harvest season.  You then receive a weekly or bi-weekly box (or perhaps a "Flex Share") of our freshest seasonal produce from mid-June to late-October. You may also choose to extend your share with additional boxes of storage vegetables delivered until Thanksgiving, or to supplement your organic vegetables with an organic fruit share


A Shared Commitment

When you sign up, you dedicate yourself to being our customer for the year, thus providing us with a secure market -- a welcome measure of certainty in the fickle world of farming! In turn, we dedicate ourselves to being your farmers and providing you with a varied, nutritious vegetable diet for the season. Not only that, we work diligently to connect you to the source of that diet through our newsletters, a recipe service, our farm open houses, and an open invitation for you to come visit the farm and connect with the people growing your food and with the land on which your food is grown.


Shared Risk; Shared Reward

We do our very best to bring you a beautiful and bountiful box each week, but since our boss, Nature, provides no guarantees -- we can't offer any either. One of the premises of a Community Supported Agriculture program is that the shareholder shares, through the vegetables, the farmer’s experience of nature's blessings and maybe mischief.


Not To Worry!

The weather woes would probably never rob you of all your veggies. Even during the flooding we experienced in 1993 and the drought of 2012, we were able to fill our shareholders' boxes every week -- and could barely close the boxes at the height of the season! In recent years, increases in soil fertility and advances in our growing expertise have consistently produced stellar boxes.


How Many For Dinner?

The selection of produce changes from week to week, as does the total volume and weight of the boxes. We do our best to fill your 3/4 bushel produce box to the brim, equivalent to about 1 1/2 regular paper grocery sacks. The first boxes of the season offer mainly leafy greens and herbs, and weigh 7 to 12 pounds. From late summer through fall, the boxes may bulge with over 20 pounds of produce. One full share generally satisfies the needs of two people with a vegetarian diet, or four people with a mixed diet.


Really Fresh, Really Local

These days, "fresh" seems to mean fresh off the truck from another country. For us, fresh means we hand-pick most of the vegetables in your box within 48 hours of its arrival in your neighborhood. Local means settlers here smelled the smoke from the Great Chicago Fire. Our farm is a 2-hour drive northwest of Chicago, a 1/2 hour drive north of Rockford.


Know Your Food, Know Your Farm

No anonymous veggies here; the boxes talk! With each delivery we publish a weekly newsletter acquainting you with your food and its interesting upbringing -- a synergy of weather, soil, sun, and toil. We also provide a CSA recipe service through Local Thyme, which includes weekly recipes and tips customized for your box, supplemental shopping lists, and a vegetable identification guide.


Come See Your Vegetables Growing Up!

Beyond cultivating a relationship with new foods, shareholders can cultivate a new relationship with food by following the food chain back to the soil. We invite you out to the farm during the season where you can visit the vegetables, touch the sweet-smelling soil, pick flowers and herbs from the U-Pick garden, attend our open houses, and talk farming with the farm hands. Additional workshops and classes are available and are administered by the Angelic Organics Learning Center.


How You Get Your Box

We deliver to over 30 pick-up sites around Rockford and the greater Chicago area. You choose the most convenient location, and we bring your box to this site on the same day each week. You have at least a 5 hour window (and up to 10, depending on the site) during which you can pick up your box. We also offer home delivery to many areas in and near Chicago.


 

Celebrating 25 Years as a CSA Farm!

Farmer John Peterson describes why you’ll love our Community Supported Agriculture Program, as shareholders harvest beans from the Angelic Organics U-Pick garden at our farm open house.

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Eat healthy in 2015 with an Angelic Organics CSA Vegetable Share, fresh and organic straight from our farm, delivered to a site near you. Each weekly vegetable share comes with a complementary recipe service customized for your box.

Free Home Delivery with the purchase of a Vegetable and Fruit Share, or $6 a box per delivery with the purchase of just a vegetable share, when you sign up by Wednesday, March 25th. For details on this offer visit our Home Delivery page.

Share Options

How much produce should I expect?

We do our best to fill your 3/4 bushel box to the brim, equivalent to about 1 & 1/2 regular paper grocery bags. From late summer through fall, your box may bulge with over 20 lbs of produce. One full share generally satisfies the needs of two people with a vegetarian diet or four people with a mixed diet.


Is the share a good value?

Overall, based on various comparison studies we've seen and also based on analyses of our own share prices, you can expect your Angelic Organics CSA share to cost about 1/4 to 1/3 less than if you bought comparable organic vegetables from a grocery store such as Whole Foods.


When does the season start?

Our delivery season starts in early June and ends in late October. We also offer an Extended Season Share, which starts in late October or early November, and ends before Thanksgiving.


Full (20-week) Vegetable Share $740

Vegetable delivery is once a week for 20 weeks.


Half (10-week) Vegetable Share $400

The deliveries are every other week, 10 deliveries over the 20 week season. We will assign you a pickup schedule just before the season begins.

Flex Vegetable Share $40/week

This share provides the flexibility for those who are away for a while during the season. Sign up for the number of weeks that will fit your busy schedule and choose the specific weeks just before the season begins.

Fruit Shares $480

Enjoy Organic Fruit Delivery of the most delicious and nutritious farm fresh fruit in season! Fruit Shares provide an opportunity for you to support small, organic fruit growers and to receive fresh, tasty fruit varieties. Visit our Fruit Share information page here.


Extended Season Vegetable and Fruit Shares 

These shares run for four weeks past the regular season, ending before Thanksgiving. Visit our signup page for more information on Extended Season Shares.

You can receive a share like this, starting in 2015!

Still Undecided?

Things are a lot different now in the healthy food movement, compared to the 90's when Angelic Organics was one of the first CSA's in the region. There are many CSA farms serving the Chicago area today, and numerous other ways for people to receive organic vegetables. So, we made a list of what makes Angelic Organics special. We hope our list makes you as excited about Angelic Organics as we are.


Ten Reasons Why Angelic Organics is Special

Reason #1: Our Shareholders like us

See shareholder reviews and many other shareholder posts on our Facebook page.


See all 10 reasons why Angelic Organics is special

Click here for a condensed, mobile-friendly version of our CSA program.


In 2015, Angelic Organics is celebrating 25 years as a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) family farm,  providing organic, local vegetables and herbs for people in Chicago and North Central Illinois. We work directly with households like yours, without the intermediary of stores or wholesalers. Headed by lifelong farmer John Peterson and fortified with appropriate infrastructure, reliable equipment and a great crew, Angelic Organics is known for its ability to deliver full boxes of the freshest quality produce at the most competitive organic prices, week after week, through drought or flood.