Based on the vegetables available that week, we determine what we have ready and available for the shares. We then hand pick the produce, wash it, bag the perishables (lettuce, spinach, green beans … etc), and fill each personal crate to the correct amount depending on Regular, Large, or Half Share Membership. Next we deliver the filled crates to the designated drop sites. Early in the season it is very difficult to produce enough diversity of crops to fulfill all of the choices, therefore, we do supplement the shares with local free-range eggs, honey from the bees that pollinate our crops, homemade jams/jellies, and local organic cheese.
Pickup Times
23 weeks
Every Thursday from 1st Thursday in June until 1st Thursday in Nov.:
- 1635 Foxwood Dr. Monroeville – 2:45 PM until 7:00 PM
316 Biddle Avenue Regent Square- 3:00 PM until 7:00 PM - 6400 Wilkins Avenue Squirrel Hill – 3:15 PM until 7:00 PM
- 5441 Alyesboro Avenue Squirrel Hill- 3:30 PM until 7:00 PM
- Carnegie Mellon University, Solar House- 3:45PM until 6:00 PM
- 5637 Rippey St. East Liberty- 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM
- 5 Center Avenue Aspinwall- 4:15 PM until 7:00 PM
Extras
These are all included with your membership:
- Weekly Newsletter (Weekly update on farm/crop/employee progress, “vegetable of the week” post-harvest handling info, recipe of the week)
- Annual CSA Farm Tour ( All members of our CSA program are invited to our farm once a year. We farm three different farms all within 4 miles of our home farm. The large group is split up into three different groups. Each group will then go to their designated farms and take an educational hayride led by one of us farmers. This is a very popular event that members look forward to in July.
Price
There are three types of memberships available:
A Regular Membership will normally receive 8 items, an Large Membership will normally receive 9 items. (As explained above, an item might be: 6 ears of corn, 3 tomatoes, a lb. of green beans … etc.), and a Half Share Membership receives a full share Biweekly.
Regular Membership is $500.00 ($21.74/ week)
Large Membership is $560.00 ($24.35/ week)
Half Share Membership is $260.00
There are three different Payment Plans for each of these Memberships:
1: Payment in full
2: Full w/ Deposit (First payment now next payment on June 1st)
3: 3 Equal Installments (First payment now, rest of payments on the first of each month starting May1st)
Make checks payable to: Harvest Valley Farms, 125 Ida Lane, Valencia, PA 16059.