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Welcome to City Farm Boy CSA!

Urban farming is taking root in Vancouver. We grow the food in collaboration with garden owners throughout our city and offer the harvest to neighborhood shareholders. Can you think of a better model for local food production and community building?

2008 Garden Shares SOLD OUT!

City Farm Boy is a small CSA urban farming
adventure in the heart of Vancouver, BC. We're unique in that our produce is grown on a collection of front and back-yard plots owned by Vancouver resident neighbors.

What this means is that City Farm Boy harvests travel few miles from our ground to your table. We provide you with fresh, healthy vegetables from our beautiful, bountiful gardens adorning our neighbor-hood yards. We offer our community fresh, new vibrant connections with food, farmers, land and each other.

City Farm Boy models a feasible way to bring much needed change to our increasingly ineffective and wasteful ways of producing and distributing food. Your support by membership and volunteering in this sustainability movement, will be a voice for overall community health.

What is Community Supported Agriculture?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a locally charged commitment to bring the producers and consumers of food together to share the risks and rewards of food production.

What's in a share?...here's a glance at what is planned for the 2008 crop. Weather and seasonal variations will have an impact on what is grown.

Click here for a list of urban garden crops that I'll be planting in 2008.

The harvest will vary during the growing season, but here are some examples of a share:

June
Sugar snap peas, spinach, lettuce, flowers, baby carrots, basil, swiss chard, radish, zucchini, scallions

August
Cherry tomatoes, summer squash, carrots, broccoli, salad greens, chard, cucumbers, pole beans, fresh garlic. potatoes

October
Romaine Lettuce, beets, sprouts, winter squash, pumpkin, beans, potatoes, onions, lettuce, swiss chard, flowers

The Nitty-Gritty

Eight (8) bi-weekly harvests:
Harvests run from June 3 through October 7, 2008

Fresh harvest shares: Buying a share entitles members to bi-weekly pick-ups of seasonally harvested vegetables (and occasional fruit or flowers).

Financial sustainability: Payment is due May 15th. In doing so, the customer places their confidence in our farmer and agrees to share in the risks and variability of harvest.

Community satisfaction: In a well-functioning CSA, with Mother Nature's cooperation, shareholders can expect to receive more than their money's worth of healthy and fresh vegetables throughout the growing season.

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The 2008 City Farm Boy CSA Membership Application