Forsythe Farms CSA Membership
Nature's Unfiltered and Simply Good Food
Meals take time and effort to prepare and it's rewarding when you can savour the flavour of a meal well done.
Tasty meals start with good, fresh food.
- Are you looking for that just picked it from your garden flavor?
- Would you enjoy the convenience of having a selection of produce picked fresh from our farms fields and packed ready for you to just start cooking?
- Do you love the adventure of trying new foods?
Consider joining our CSA farm share program.
What is a CSA? Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) programs enable community members to support and invest in the farmer’s fruit and vegetable production in exchange for a share of the harvest- fruits and vegetables fresh from the fields.
CSA's build closer relationships between the local farmer and their community.
Know your farmer, Know your food
With membership you help fund the cost of the seeds, the plants, the growing and the harvesting but you leave the work to us. You’re investing in our farms growing season and sharing in the benefits and the risks of farming.
Your reward is a selection of fruits and vegetables given to you weekly or biweekly fresh from the fields during the seasons you join for. You get the inside scoop of what's happening on the farm, enjoy the bounty of the harvest and opportunities to come out and enjoy the activities our farm has to offer.
Our CSA program brings sustainably grown fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm and the local farming community directly to you.
Click on the three icon images below to discover what eating local through our CSA program is all about.
Imagine what life would be like if local farmers in your area got together once a week, bringing with them their finest crops at the peak of the growing season.
Imagine them carefully selecting each item with you in mind, taking the time to piece together a bag of fresh in-season fruits and vegetables just for you. Save time wondering what is at it's peak of freshness.
Imagine how exciting each share bag would be as you discover new recipes, explore new varieties, find new favourites and become a better chef at home. Be part of our facebook CSA group sharing your creations.
2021 Forsythe Farms CSA now has 3 seasons you can sign up for:
spring, summer and fall.
There's lots of good food here on the farm in all these seasons and our members are loving it.
Join us for 1, 2 or all 3 seasons.
What do I Pay?
| The Membership will be pro-rated for the weeks remaining in the season | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Method | Bi Weekly (9 weeks) | Weekly (18 weeks) | |
| Full Season | $280 | $550 | |
| *One time $10 Insulated Cooler Bag Charge | |||
| Eggs | $54.00 | $108.00 | |
| Partial Season | $32 per applicable week | $32 per applicable week | |
| $2.50 Hub Delivery / $0 *on farms and Farmer's Market* $5 Home delivery until markets open and Toronto Hubs | *Plus $10 Cooler Bag Fee | ||
Become a Farmer's Market Hub
Host your own Hub Farmer's Market, at your home or place of work.
Gather 6 interested freinds to participate in the program and Forsythe CSA will arrange delivery to your choice of location.
The delivery fee is waived to the hostess.
Your participation supports a small local farm and helps bring fresh produce to your community.
"Last season was my first year participating in a CSA and I was dually impressed with the quantity and quality of their produce! I literally couldn't wait to come home to find my weekly produce bag and see what surprises were hidden inside. I absolutely love supporting a local business and the quality of the produce is seriously unreal. I happily refer others to their service as I love hearing their feedback after trying it just once."
"My husband and I have participated in both the spring-fall share program as well as the winter share program. We have absolutely loved it! It is so exciting when you get the weekly emails telling you what you will be getting in your share that week. As a young, recently married couple we have enjoyed discovering how to cook vegetables that we may never have tried when walking through the grocery store. The CSA program has expanded our recipes as well as helped us eat more fruits and vegetables on a regular basis. The staff at Forsythe are amazing and always willing to meet our needs and make adjustments to our share. The fruits and vegetables always come fresh and are delicious! We have never been disappointed."
I just want to say how much I have enjoyed the winter share program. It has been so much fun to get my children involved. My 3 year old daughter has been responsible for putting our cooler out every other Wednesday and she and my 7 year old son rush eagerly to see what is in there in the afternoon. We all really enjoyed the puffed wheat both as a snack on it's own and in an old family recipe for Puffed Wheat Cake that my great-grandmother used to make. Very impressed!
I would like to let you know that by choosing to by locally I am getting fresher produce. It lasts much longer and the flavor is usually better. It is very convenient to have it appear at my door.
Also I find that I am going to the grocery store less often so in the long run I am saving money.
“We are coming up to our 5th year with CSA, which is delivered to my work place. Daniel arrives and everyone at work is excited to see what is in the share that week. It's always a surprise and my family is excited when I arrive home with all the goodies. Daniel always has a smile on his face which makes the day even brighter. Your doing a wonderful job Daniel and you are always providing amazing service.”
Amazing - great product, great people and a seamless accommodating process. Not being able to get the share every week on the same day worried me a bit, but Daniel 100 accommodated the situation and went above in my mind by allowing substitutions of things I wasn't a big fan of in some weekly shares.
This is Shannon's second season with Forsythe Farms CSA and her third with the farm. It's a pleasure to work with her.Her inexhaustable energy and passion for growing fruits and vegetables can be seen in the fields and crops she manages and the produce she and her crew harvest. She loves to cook as much as she loves to grow the food.
Shannon is also responsible for organizing and packing the farm box shares as well as packing the skids for the farmers markets we attend. You may on occasion even see her at one of our markets.
You'll get to know Shannon through the season as she keeps everything running as smooth as possible for the spring, summer and fall CSA share seasons.
Forsythe Farms CSA was created by Daniel Forsythe shortly after he finished high school as a way to be a part of the farm but have his own unique enterprise. Daniel is the second generation of the Forsythe Family Farms 2009 Inc. in Uxbridge, Ontario. He is passionate about the success and growth of the local farm and community. Daniel lives with his wife, Jocelyn and their family in the Durham Region. He enjoys being involved in various local outreach programs. In his spare time he enjoys black coffee, cartoons and studying Christian theology .
Daniel has handed over the management of his CSA to his parents at Forsythe Family Farms 2009 Inc while he pursues a post secondary education. His goal is to use his entrepreneurial experience gleaned from his time on the farm and with his CSA to work with young people and help them build skills to succeed in life.