2025 Community Supported Agriculture
Overview
A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program connects you with your food.
By buying a share in the winter, you’re reserving weekly pick-ups of sustainably-grown produce right here on our farm. Throughout the growing seasons, you visit the farm to pick them up.
We plant, grow, and harvest vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers to provide fresh, certified-organic produce to the community. And, we partner with local farms to supplement what we can’t grow. This allows us to offer fruit, mushrooms, and additional varieties of vegetables.
LexFarm Membership
Joining LexFarm as a Member
LexFarm is a membership organization. The option to purchase a CSA Share is a benefit of LexFarm membership. Membership dues support our mission around food access, education and outreach to all members of the community.
A Household membership ($45) is the minimum level required to be a CSA Shareholder and to receive discounts on youth, family, and adult education programs. Memberships run from January 1 through December 31. LexFarm membership dues are tax deductible to the full extent provided by law.
LexFarm membership is not required for subsidized CSA shareholders
Note: If you donate $45 or more during our year-end appeal (after November 1, 2024) your donation will be applied towards 2025 membership. If you’re not sure, you can check your membership status here: Verify Membership If you still aren’t sure of your membership status, please email [email protected] to inquire.
Please create or renew your 2025 membership for BEFORE placing your CSA order.
Ready to Order? Place your 2025 CSA Order
See up-to-date availability of our CSA Programs at our eCommerce site. Note: If you find items are sold out when placing your order, you can sign-up for our waitlist.
Egg, Mushroom and Winter CSA Offerings
Announcing our Egg, Mushroom and Winter CSA Programs, beginning in January 2025..
We will continue partnering with Red Fire Farm (Granby, MA) for the Winter Vegetable Share. We also are continuing our partnership with Fat Moon Farm (Westford, MA) and offering Mushroom Shares for the entire year. New this year, the Egg Share will be filled by Latremore Pine Ridge Farm (Chary, NY), with organic, free-range eggs.
The remainder of our CSA Programs – Spring, Summer and Fall Vegetable, Flowers, Fruit, Gleaners and SNAP Summer Vegetable – will be announced in January. Sign up for the LexFarm newsletter to ensure that you receive all of our announcements.
Winter Vegetable Share
We’re so happy to partner again with Red Fire Farm (Granby, MA) for our winter veggie share! This share will be every-other-week, The share will run for 10 weeks, with 5 pick-ups. Red Fire will supply mainly root veggies, as well as greens and some other fun surprises. Pick up is Friday or Saturday.Share runs from January 10 – March 8.
Pick-up dates:
- Jan 10-11
- Jan 24-25
- Feb 7-8
- Feb 21-22
- Mar 7-8
Egg Share
New this year, LexFarm is partnering with Latremore Pine Ridge Farm (Chary, NY) to bring you eggs that are certified organic from free-range chickens. Each week you will receive a dozen large eggs. Pick-up is in the farm stand Wednesday through Saturday. We are offering 5 sessions of egg shares in 2025.
- Session 1: Jan 8 – Mar 15, 10 weeks
- Session 2: Mar 19 – May 24, 10 weeks
- Session 3: May 28 – Aug 2, 9 weeks, skip week of July 4th
- Session 4: Aug. 6 – Oct 11, 10 weeks
- Session 5: Oct 15 – Dec 20, 8 weeks, skip week of Thanksgiving
Mushroom Share
We will continue to partner with Fat Moon Farm to offer five weekly seasonal Mushroom Shares for pickup at LexFarm. The mushrooms are grown nearby in the Merrimack Valley. These certified-organic fungi are a delicious addition to any meal. Each week consists of one pound of mushrooms; the varieties change each week based on availability. They include Shiitake, Oyster (blue, brown, black pearly, yellow), Lion’s Mane, Chestnut, and more!
Pickup for the Mushroom Share is on Thursday or Friday. We are offering 5 sessions of mushroom shares in 2025.
The pickup weeks for each session are as follows:
- Session 1: Jan 9 – Mar 14, 10 weeks
- Session 2: Mar 20 – May 23, 10 weeks
- Session 3: May 29 – Aug 1, 9 weeks, skip week of July 4th
- Session 4: Aug. 7 – Oct 10, 10 weeks
- Session 5: Oct 16 – Dec 19, 9 weeks, skip week of Thanksgiving
LexFarm CSA Logistics
Ordering & Pick-up
- Sign up online. If you choose to pay by credit card, we ask that you consider a 3% “tip” to cover credit card fees.If you choose to pay by check, you will enter a coupon code (paywithcheck) at check out. Detailed instructions for paying by check can be found here.Please mail your check to LexFarm, PO Box 554, Lexington, MA 02420. Checks must be received within one week in order to reserve your share.You are welcome to split a share with another household, but we will record only one name per share. That name will appear on the sign-in sheet at share pickup and receive any email correspondence we send out.
- Exact season start date for each Share type is subject to the weather and field conditions. We will send you an email a week or two prior to the start of each share informing you of the season start date and other relevant pickup details. For 10-week Summer Vegetable Shareholders, this email will also tell you whether you have been assigned to the odd or even week group.
- Pick up your share on the designated days when the farmstand is open. View our farmstand hours below.
- If you can’t make your regular pickup for your share, you may:
- Send a friend. This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce a neighbor, friend, or co-worker to the farm. Have the friend check in under your name. You do not need to let us know.
- Donate your share. If you don’t pick up your share, the food will not go to waste. We donate all extra vegetables to food rescue organizations twice every week, and we are happy to make your share available to those who will use it!!
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We are not staffed to make other pickup arrangements other than the ones described above. We cannot hold shares beyond the specified pickup dates. Thank you for working with these options.
Financial hardship
We strive to make our CSA shares available to everyone in our community. In cases of financial hardship, contact [email protected] for alternate payment plan options. We also offer subsidized shares for SNAP recipients.
Refunds/Cancellations
Any refund or cancellation is contingent upon our ability to sell your reserved share. A $35 administrative fee will be deducted. Any refund or cancellation request must be submitted at least one month before the start of the distribution of your share. Refunds are given at the discretion of LexFarm. You can request a cancellation and refund by contacting [email protected].
Sharing our Season Disclaimer
As a CSA member, you are supporting the farm and sharing both the bounty and risks of farming. By signing up for a CSA, you understand that those risks include poor harvests of crops due to unexpected weather, pests and disease, and while unlikely, there is a chance of total crop loss due to flood, drought, or other natural disasters.
Schedule Overviews
CSA Distribution schedule
The chart below is a visual aid to help you with your planning, but not precise. Refer to each specific share description for the exact details.
CSA Pickup schedule
If you are ordering multiple CSAs, this chart provides a visual summary of CSA pickup days/times
Farmstand Hours
The farm stand is open 4 days per week year-round.
Farmstand Hours as of October 23, 2024:
| Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 12 pm – 6 pm | 12 pm – 6 pm | 12 pm – 6 pm | 10 am – 4 pm |
We are not staffed to make other pickup arrangements other than the ones described above. We cannot hold shares beyond the specified pickup dates. Thank you for working with these options.
2025 CSA Prices
You are making an investment in LexFarm when you pay for your share at the beginning of our growing season; that’s when we most need capital to purchase seeds and other supplies.
| Share Type | Cost |
| Egg | $67.50 – $75 |
| Mushroom | $180 – $200 |
| Winter | $260 |
Payment
All CSA shares must be paid in full at signup.
QUESTIONS?
See Frequently Asked Questions for additional details on how the CSA works. Any other questions can be sent to [email protected].
