Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a reciprocal partnership connecting farmers and customers to share in the bounty of the local food and agriculture movements.

Throughout the growing season, the farm provides a weekly share of agriculture products to customers, or “members“, in exchange for the financial support provided during the off-season for the purchase of seeds.

Think of it as a weekly subscription service that stocks your fridge with the freshest, local produce!

You can learn all about the history of CSA Shares on our blog.

Members receive a farm debit card that allows you to buy down from your whole-season balance at your own pace, on whatever items you choose when you shop with us at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market – whether that’s our veggies, herbs, flowers, microgreens, etc.

Market Memberships are valid May – December.

We believe healthy soil produces nutritious and tasty veggies, so we employ ecological practices such as composting, cover cropping, mulching, and crop rotation. We never spray pesticides, fungicides, or herbicides on our produce.

You can catch a glimpse of what crops to expect each month in your share on our CSA Share Sample and Calendar.

With our Market Membership CSA shares, you have the flexibility of choosing what you buy from week to week.

Use your membership on veggies, herbs, fruit, microgreens, flower bouquets, garden seedlings, jams, or dried herb products.

If it’s at our table at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market, you can use your Market Membership.

As a thank you for purchasing a Market Membership, you will receive a 10% increase in the amount of funds on your card to drawn down from May – December.

• Share Size = $350 (10% added = $385) You can plan to spend about $14 each week (approximately a 27 week season) or $30 every other week.

• Membership includes All The Things – our Market Memberships aren’t exclusive to our vegetables – use your membership for whatever you want each week – whether that’s veggies, herbs, fruit, microgreens, flower bouquets, garden seedlings, jams, or dried herbal products. If it’s at our table you can use your Market Membership. 
• 100% Customizable – only buy what you want to plan your meals for the week
• Guilt-Free – leave town for that summer vacation or work trip without feeling guilty about the produce that you didn’t finish before you left or that’s going to end up in the compost 
• Flexible – only buy what you want & need for the week; especially important when you have a busy week ahead of travel baseball, family in town, or whatever else fills up your calendar
• Skip a Week without the Hassle – life gets busy and the Market Membership allows you to miss a week when you need to, without having to coordinate pick up by someone else
• Enjoy the Seasonal Variety – we’ll continue to have a rotation of crops throughout the season, to help you really get to know the best produce available in spring, summer, fall & winter in WNY from our farm 
• Confidence in How Your Food is Grown – we are committed to growing without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides and using regenerative agriculture practices to grow nutritionally-dense food for our members 
• Extended Season – there are items we grow that we don’t have the chance to include in our typical 20-week CSA seasons. Now you’ll have a chance to enjoy a bag of our spinach and winter sunchokes
• Exclusive Opportunities – our Market Membership will allow you to order items in bulk for preserving
• More Bang for Your Buck – Market Memberships include a 10% bump in the funds on your member card to draw down from 
• Weekly Thursday email detailing what will be available at the market, so you can meal plan/grocery shop
• Our CSA Recipe E-book with 150+ recipes, so you can have new recipe inspiration at your fingertips
• Our A-Z Produce Storage Guide to help you store and prolong the life of your CSA Share, that way you don’t waste your money or veggies! 
• Digital resources where you can learn about the nutritional value of and how to best cook each vegetable, so when you choose something unfamiliar you have a guide for what to do with it
• Opportunities to speak directly with the people who grow and harvest your food, so you don’t have to wait for an email or text response to a question you have

In addition, some intrinsic benefits include:

• A connection to your local agriculture and farming community 
• Learning to eat with the seasons 
• Confidence in how your food is grown and land stewardship 
• Decreasing the miles your food travels from field to table
• Opportunity to savor unique, heirloom vegetable varieties

Use your Market Membership at our table at the Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market.

The Lewiston Artisan Farmers Market runs on Saturdays, 9am-1pm.

• May 10, & May 24 at 505 Cayuga Street, village of Lewiston, 1st Presbyterian Church Social Hall
• May 31 – October 11 at Academy Park, 170 S 9th St, village of Lewiston
• October – December (exact dates being finalized) at 505 Cayuga Street, village of Lewiston, 1st Presbyterian Church Social Hall

Still not sure if becoming a member of Schul Farmstead’s CSA share is right for you? Do you relate to any of the following statements?

• I like farm-fresh veggies.
• I cook dinner 3+ times a week.
• I want to include more veggies into my meals/diet.
• I love to try new things.
• I value using quality ingredients in my cooking.
• I value sustainable agriculture.

If you answered “yes” to 3 statements, a CSA share would be a good fit for your lifestyle.

“This CSA was one of the best decisions we have made. We ate healthier and had fun experimenting with new vegetables. I have already recommended it to family and friends for next year.”

2022 CSA Share Member