2024 Summer Shares are now available! Click on our Summer CSA Page to sign up and get more details! 



The 2024 Great Greens Give-Away is Saturday MARCH 23rd, 12-4 PM

This event is for CSA Members only!

 Come out to the farm on Saturday, March 23rd from 12-4 pm to pick some fresh greens! If you've signed up already or sign up at this event you can head into one of the greenhouses and harvest one bursting bag of greens (bring your own shears or scissors if you have them). If you would rather not pick your own greens we will have bags bagged up for folks that don't want to pick for the themselves.

We will also have Garlic and Onions sold by the piece, bags of potatoes, carrots, and beets, and our wine and cider available for sale that day. 

If you can sign up before the event that is even better!

That gives us a chance to do some accounting and early sign-ups help us with cash flow and our general peace of mind. Your support early in the season helps cover the cost of seeds and supplies for the year. You can purchase your share by sending a check for the whole season, multiple postdated checks, or by paying online via Paypal. Visit our Summer CSA Page for pricing and the Join Form. If you've been a member just look over the join form for payment dates, etc but you don't need to fill it out this year.

Do you know someone that is food insecure? Community members? Church members?

We also have shares available through the Healthy Food For All Program.Healthy Food for All is a farmer-driven initiative that partners local CSA farms with Cornell Cooperative Extension to make fresh, seasonal produce accessible to all community members regardless of income. We are so proud to be part of this program for 16 years and know that not enough people are aware of this great offer. 

Free hat incentive!

The crew and I are very excited for this season and are hoping that you help spread the word about our Summer CSA. Again, as an incentive to sign up new members, we will be offering a free hat to anyone that signs up someone that was not a member last season. Just have them put your name down on the Join Form. They can pick up their free hat the first two weeks of the Summer CSA.

Spread the Word with a quick click

Are you on Facebook? We have an event on Facebook for our Great Greens Giveaway.  If you could help us spread the word we would appreciate it very much. Word of mouth is the best advertising..or in this case friend to friend on Facebook.

Or share our instagram post about the event to your story. Or even better just tell a friend in person about the CSA and why you love it.

2024 Two Adult Household Share

This year's base price for the 2024 Season is just over $26 per week.

  • Weekly distribution of richly grown produce of your choice in a Filled Sweet Land Farm bag. You pick and choose the vegetables each week that go into your bag.
  • Itemized vegetables including tomatoes and garlic.
  • Access to u-pick crops like strawberries, raspberries, kale, chard, peas, beans, flowers, shishito peppers, etc. Most of the u-pick crops become unlimited! When we say unlimited we mean it!
  • A Sweet Land Farm bag for new members

Why sign up this year?

More heirloom tomatoes
More flowers
More strawberries
More raspberries
U-pick Shishito Peppers
U-pick fingerling potatoes!
More salad mix
And a few more surprises...

Event Help

Every year a couple of CSA members come to help us with the Greens Give-Away. If you would like to help please email me! This should be fun. 

 This is a one-time event, if you miss it there are no make-ups. You may send
a friend in your stead.

We hope to see you there!

Farmer Paul

 

 CSA (Community Supported Agriculture)

This model of farming is designed to provide a close connection between the farmers, the land and a community of shareholders. The farmers feed the shareholders by providing weekly produce. The shareholders financially support the farm and become an integral part of small scale, local agriculture. CSA is a life-affirming movement that redeems our interaction with the earth by providing a structure within which we can personally determine the way we want our food to be grown and distributed. The community farm is a place to rekindle our vital connection to our food and the land on which it is grown.

 

 

The Farm

Sweet Land Farm is located in Trumansburg, NY, an area rich in farming history and now enjoying an agricultural revival. The native soil here is deep, dark, and luscious. Sweet Land Farm shares property boundaries, a spirit of cooperation, and pleasant neighborliness with a certified organic grain farm. We use only certified organic inputs and OMRI approved products, but do not get organic certification. We are certified Naturally Grown, which is a peer to peer certification. 

 

A third of Sweet Land’s acreage is in annual vegetables, with an acre or so in perennial and bi-annual fruit, and the balance is in cover crops. We believe that the backbone of a healthy, thriving farm is healthy, thriving soil. To accomplish this, we rotate annual crops with cover crops. The cover crops are grown, chopped, and tilled back into the soil to add organic matter back to our soil and capture and recycle nutrients for the crops we harvest and eat. You will see large acreage of sunflowers, mixed with sun hemp, peas, and sudan grass when you come to farm this summer that are part of our cover crop rotation.

 

SHAREHOLDERS

The CSA is also about Community. We emphasis at our farm that you don't pick up your ‘CSA.’ You pick up your 'CSA share'. You are part of the community in this agreement. We provide fresh produce grown from healthy soils, a space for you to get out of the ‘digital’ and enjoy our natural surroundings, an incredibly large u-pick to enjoy including thousands of flowers, and 23 weeks of delicious produce for you to choose from. Your CSA price pays for the whole service that we provide. If the value of the food is worth the share price…great! If just the flowers are worth the price..great! If just the experience is worth the price alone…great! Or maybe you see the value of the whole package and feel part of the farm community. The later is our goal. Let's tip the food paradigm on it's head!

 

 FARMERS

A CSA is a farmer-friendly model. The farmer develops a stable, long-term relationship with reliable customers. This economic model benefits both the consumer and producer in its’ stability. This makes it easier for the farmers to plan yearly crops because they know what, and how much product their customers want. Additionally it allows the consumer to plan their food budget. The CSA model also enables farmers to do most of their marketing in the slow winter months, so that when the growing season rolls around they can spend more time producing excellent produce. It provides the farmers with a viable business, an essential element in sustainability.

 

SOIL

Don’t forget the soil that’s growing all this bounty! Healthy soil grows healthy plants, and healthy plants grow healthy people. Just as plants grown on rich soil have fewer diseases, pest and growth problems, people who eat this nutritious food experience radiant health. At Sweet Land Farm we rotate our crops into land that has been cover cropped, allowing pest and disease cycles to be interrupted and to allow roots, earthworms and soil microbes to create a rich crumbling soil structure.