Angelic Organics

You Can Receive Fresh Produce, Direct From Your Farm

We only offer our harvest to households like yours. Working directly with you, without the intermediary of stores or wholesalers, gives us the opportunity to provide the freshest quality and the most competitive organic prices. This system is known as Subscription Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, or, most simply, a CSA. If you are interested in working as an intern, hourly farmworker, or other capacity, please review our Employment Pages.

This Is How It Works:

With a preseason payment, you can purchase a "share" of our summer's harvest. You then receive a weekly box of our freshest, seasonal produce during the course of our twenty week harvest season, from mid-June to late-October. Further, you may choose to extend the season with a Winter Share - 4 additional boxes of storage vegetables to be delivered every other week in November & December.

A Shared Commitment:

When you sign up, you dedicate yourself to being our customer for the year, thus providing us a secure market -- a welcome measure of certainty in the fickle world of farming! We, in turn, dedicate ourselves to being your farmers, providing you with a varied, nutritious vegetable diet.

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 veggies, the farmers' experience of nature's mischief (and blessings).

Not To Worry!

The weather woes would probably never rob you of all your veggies. Even with the flooding we experienced in 1993 ( the most challenging crop year since 1974) 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 Does Our Garden Grow?

In 1990, we began raising vegetables on our land according to strict Organic principles. Beyond meeting the minimum requirements of using no chemicals -- which is simply avoiding a negative -- we create a positive: soils and plants with rip-roaring health! In 1993, this goal led us to adopt Biodynamic farming practices.

What Is Biodynamics?

Biodynamics is a system of sustainable agriculture first described in 1924 by Austrian social philosopher Rudolf Steiner, whose work also underlies the methods of Waldorf education. He gave recipes for nine special "preparations" which are at the heart of the Biodynamic practice: one is a specifically prepared manure; another a silica-rich rock powder; the rest -- herbs and other plant materials. Added to compost, and sprayed directly on the soil and plants at different periods in the growing year, each preparation stimulates and enhances biological activity in a specific way.