New Roots CSA
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Sections:
Weekly Farm Box – CSA Membership Models – How do I sign up for the CSA? – What Do We Grow? – Expand Your Palate – Share Examples – CSA Add-Ons – Testimonials – Questions about our CSA?
Weekly Farm Box
New Roots SLC offers a weekly farm box delivery service, providing market exposure and supplemental income for refugee farmers through Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA’s are a business model that allows consumers and producers to share the risks and rewards associated with food production. CSA members make a monetary commitment to the farmer at the beginning of the season and receive local, organically grown produce throughout the growing months in return.
17 Weekly Vegetable Bags
June 19 to October 09, 2024
Full Share (feeds 4-6) | $595 total ($613 when paid online)*
Half Share (feeds 2-4) | $340 total ($350 when paid online)*
Quarter Share (feeds 1-2) | $170 total ($175 when paid online)*
*Pay half price with your Utah Horizon card. See our SNAP/EBT Membership page to learn more!
Note that the half share is our standard vegetable bag size. The full and quarter shares are only available as free choice options at our Redwood Farm pick-up location.
CSA Membership Models
We are offering 3 types of CSA memberships in 2024!
Individual Farmer CSA’s at Neighborhood Hive
In seasons past, New Roots has aggregated produce from multiple farmers to provide pre-packed vegetable bags for CSA members. We are adjusting our farm incubator model to better support farmer independence. In pursuit of that goal, each farmer will have their own CSA with technical assistance by New Roots staff. Want to learn more?
Youth CSA at Neighborhood Hive
Support our Youth, Agriculture, Livestock and Leadership, or YALL, program by purchasing a youth CSA share! Refugee and new American youth grades 8-12 will be growing your vegetables and learning important sustainability, program management and leadership skills along the way. Youth will be offering a pre-packed vegetable bag option for pick-up at our Sugarhouse location. YALL is offering 2 CSA membership options split into smaller summer and fall seasons:
Summer 2024 CSA dates: June 19-August 28 (11 weeks)
Fall 2024 CSA dates: September 7 - October 5 (5 weeks).
Learn more here.
Free Choice Model at Redwood Farm
Free Choice CSA members still pay ahead of time for a set number of weeks of produce, but they will get to choose what goes into their vegetable bags that week at the time of pick-up. This is a great option for folks who want more control over the types and quantities of different vegetables they receive.
Upon arrival at their pick-up location, free choice CSA members will receive tokens from New Roots staff equal in value to their prepaid share. Members then use these tokens to shop for produce from multiple New Roots vendors on-site, including our youth farmers. Please note that free choice CSA membership is only available at our Redwood Farm pick-up location.
The pick-up day and time for the Youth and Redwood CSA options is on Wednesdays 4:30-7:00 pm. Individual farmer CSA’s have their own pick-up days and times (more information to come).
How do I sign up for the CSA?
All CSA memberships are available for purchase on our CSA Online Store.
Please note that our individual farmer CSA options are part of our farmer training program. 2024 is the first year we are offering this as a business development option for participating farmers, so we expect lessons to be learned and mistakes to be made along the way! If you decide an individual farmer CSA membership works best for you, we ask that customers supporting this exciting new program enter the season with patience and flexibility top of mind.
We are working with Bashire, Yousif & Hawaa, and Omar to create membership agreements that outline cancellation, refund and missed pick-up policies. Customers who purchase memberships with any of these farmers will be contacted later in the spring with more information and will be able to cancel their membership at that time if needed.
What Do We Grow?
We grow multiple varieties of the following crops: salad mix, heirloom tomatoes, kale, carrots, beets, radishes, turnips, arugula, mizuna, spinach, cherry tomatoes, green beans, tomatillos, bell peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, eggplant, potatoes, pumpkins, herbs, zucchini, summer squash and more!
We occasionally source fruit from local orchards.
Expand Your Palate
Occasionally, we include crops commonly grown in the home countries of New Roots farmers, such as African eggplant, amaranth, mustard greens, Thai pumpkins and more.
These crops are favorite staples enjoyed by our farmers. We include recipes from their families in our CSA newsletter, so you can make the most of these new veggies!
Share Examples
Each share will contain 6-8 veggies per week. Full sized shares may receive items that half shares do not, or larger quantities of the same items.
Early Summer
Possible items: Green Beans, Carrots, Beets, Kale, Salad mix, Amaranth, Rainbow Chard, Daikon Radish, Red Radish, Turnip, Fresh Onion, Dill, Garlic, Broccoli, Leeks, Kohlrabi & More
Late Summer
Possible items: Kale, Swiss chard, Italian Eggplant, Slicing Tomato, Cherry Tomato, Poblano Pepper, Shishito Pepper, Corn, Bell Pepper, Zucchini, Cucumber, Okra, Tomatillos & More
CSA Add-Ons
ATTENTION: New Roots is not offering Add-On egg or flower shares in 2024. If you would like to continue supporting Roots Charter High, our previous supplier of eggs and flowers, their products can be found at Liberty Heights Fresh. Thank you for your understanding!
Eggs
You can add weekly or bi-weekly eggs to your share, thanks to a partnership with Roots Charter High School! Located in West Valley, Roots is Utah's first farm-based high school. Their farm model teaches students through applied learning and solving real world problems. Through managing the provision of eggs to New Roots CSA members, students learn lessons in economics, quality control, commitment, and reliability. While Roots eggs are not certified organic, the birds move around the property in mobile “chicken tractors” and are fed high quality, high protein feed from a local source, in addition to weeds and garden scraps.
Flowers
At Roots' farm, they focus on fun-to-grow, high quality, drought and heat tolerant, cut flower varieties that produce well in our desert climate without using too much water. Roots' high school students are involved in the entire process: from starting seeds in the greenhouse in late winter, to spring transplanting, to summer cutting and flower arranging. Their flowers are harvested and arranged on market days: guaranteeing the longest vase life possible.
Testimonials
Questions about our CSA?
Contact Elise.Watt@rescue.org. You can also refer to our page of Frequently Asked Questions.