Each year, we create a little round-up of the various CSA’s (Community Supported Agriculture) that deliver to the Wallingford neighborhood. There are a couple additions this year:
- Seattle Tilth CSA: Seattle Tilth provides farm business training and support to immigrants, refugees and people with limited resources in South King County. This “farm incubator” program is called Seattle Tilth Farm Works and is located in Auburn, WA. Purchase a subscription to our CSA program, and you’ll get a weekly box full of fresh local produce while supporting Seattle Tilth, new farmers, and strengthening local food systems! Deadline to sign-up is May 17th.
- City Grown CSA: Not a traditional CSA model. City Grown grows vegetables in donated plots of people’s yards throughout Ballard and Wallingford. Produce is then sold at their farmstand at 41st and Eastern and at the Wallingford Farmers’ Market. Purchasers of a CSA “share” are essentially establishing a pre-paid account at their farmstand. Pick the vegetables that you want and it comes off your pre-paid tab with a 5% discount.
Full list below. Get your order in now, and you’ll be green by June.
| Name | Pricing | |||
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| Source of produce | ||||
| Wallingford Pick-up site | Frequency | Year-round | Custom | Hold |
| Full Circle | 4 box prices ranging from $23 – $45 / week. | |||
| A network of approximately 30 farms up and down the West Coast. | ||||
| Home delivery or 5% for pick-up | weekly | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tiny’s Organic | Multiple plans, see pricing guide | |||
| Tiny’s Organic Farm, WA. Tiny’s is within 100 miles of Seattle & is family-owned. | ||||
| Pick-up or $5 home delivery | weekly | June 26 – Nov 6 | No | No |
| New Root’s Organics | Personal Fruit, Veggie or Mix $29.50,Standard Fruit, Veggie or Mix $39.50 | |||
| WA, OR, CA, mix of direct from grower & wholesalers | ||||
| Home delivery | weekly | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Local Choice | Multiple plans, see pricing guide | |||
| Washington farms | ||||
| Home, office delivery / pick-up | weekly | June 17 – Dec 2 | Yes | Yes |
| Boistfort Valley Farm |
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| All summer share produce is grown on their farm, winter shares are supplemented by other local/regional organic farms. | ||||
| Pick-up in Fremont and Green Lake (no Wallingford) | Winter: monthly Summer/Fall: weekly |
Winter (Nov – May) Summer/Fall (mid June – Oct) |
No | Yes |
| Helsing Junction Farm | $20 – $37 / week | |||
| Their 50-acre farm in Rochester, WA. | ||||
| 62nd and Corliss | Weekly | Mid-June to mid-October | No | Yes |
| Helsing Junction Farm | $20 – $37 / week | |||
| Their 50-acre farm in Rochester, WA. | ||||
| 62nd and Corliss | Weekly | Mid-June to mid-October | No | Yes |
| Pacific Coast Harvest | $25 – $42 / week | |||
| Six Washington State farms. | ||||
| Home Delivery | Weekly | ? | Yes | ? |
| Oxbow Organic Farm | $630 for family share that generously feeds 4 people $420 for small share, plenty for 1-2 people or a family who gardens |
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| Everything in the box grown at Oxbow and harvested within 48 hours of delivery for super fresh, super nutritious & super tasty veg! Add-on Fruit share available. Outrageously-fun harvest party in October. | ||||
| Lower Wallingford | Weekly | June to mid-October | No | No |
| City Grown CSA | $250 minimum | |||
| Not a traditional CSA model. City Grown grows vegetables in donated plots of people’s yards throughout Ballard and Wallingford. Produce is then sold at their farmstand at 41st and Eastern and at the Wallingford Farmers’ Market. Purchasers of a CSA “share” are essentially establishing a pre-paid account at their farmstand. Pick the vegetables that you want and it comes off your pre-paid tab with a 5% discount. | ||||
| 41st & Eastern and Wallingford Farmers’ Markets | Weekly | May/June to October | Yes | Yes |
| Seattle Tilth CSA | $350 half share $600 full share |
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| Seattle Tilth provides farm business training and support to immigrants, refugees and people with limited resources in South King County. This “farm incubator” program is called Seattle Tilth Farm Works and is located in Auburn, WA. Purchase a subscription to our CSA program, and you’ll get a weekly box full of fresh local produce while supporting Seattle Tilth, new farmers, and strengthening local food systems! Deadline to sign-up is May 17th. | ||||
| Wallingford Farmers’ Markets | Weekly | June to October | No | Yes |
thank you
Thank you so much for this wonderful information!
I can only speak to one of these organizations. We had the NW Green Home Tour on Saturday and Carolyn at New Roots Organics provided some fabulous produce for our kick off event. We were provided blood oranges, strawberries, radishes, greens,carrots, cucumbers and asparagus. It was incredible the quantity of fruit and veggies we went through at party. I believe it is a testament to how delicious it is to get flavorful organic produce from as close to home as possible.
I can’t help you if you can’t taste the difference between standard mega grocery store fare and the real thing!
Jubilee Farm is an incredible CSA with a depot in Phinney Ridge just north of the zoo. Everything you get in your box (at least in the 20 week summer session) is grown right in the Snoqualmie Valley. Instead of using the depot, the kids and I actually drive out there every week to see the farm, see the animals, take a ride behind the tractor, and harvest some of our share. After five years of this, we know the farmers well and I could not recommend the CSA more highly.
Going to Jubliee Farm sounds like a great family outing! Way to round out the experience.
Our family subscribed to various CSAs over the years and really felt good about paying literal seed money up front.
As our needs morphed though we selected for organic produce delivery with more variety and have been with wonderful New Roots Organics for years. Located between Fremont and Ballard, I appreciate having their quality produce delivered to my door (and how their delivery routing makes fuel use not better than feet but way better than one person in a vehicle for round trips to a store). How fresh it is compared to open-air grocery store fare is incredible. Lots of local farmers are represented in their offerings, and the rest is as local as organic west coast local can be year-round. The kale rabe this year was incredible and made converts out of some no-kale folks I know. They also have locally roasted coffee and honey (Whatcom County).
A Personal Bin also makes a terrific wedding, baby or any-occasion gift.
Is it more or less like “Amazon Fresh” for people who would otherwise get produce at farmers markets? Or, in the case of New Roots, would otherwise get produce at PCC? (I’m not sure you can get strawberries at PCC in April, but I bet they have cucumbers.)