Additional Products at the CSA

There is still time to sign up for additional products at Henry Got Crops

Yellow Springs Farm, Goat Cheese CSA: Available Tuesdays and Fridays https://shop.yellowspringsfarm.com/csa

Highland Orchards, Fuit CSA:http://highlandorchardsfarmmarket.com/

Weavers Way Store Products, Standing Order
We are happy to introduce a new option, available to both CSA shareholders and Weavers Way members, which is the weekly delivery of a standing order of a selection of the most popular products sold at the Weavers Way Stores.
For 24 weeks, you can receive your weekly:
● Eggs
● Yogurt
● Coffee
● Granola
● Bread
● Rice
● Pickles

By ordering these products through Henry Got Crops, you are supporting the farm as they will serve as additional income for the farm department. For more information please get in contact with Weavers Way Local Produce Buyer, Stephanie Kane atskane@weaversway.coop. To sign up for a standing order, go to our website and log in to the Member Center with your CSA or Co-op member number.

Questions about payments or signing up to work?

Just go to http://www.weaverway.coop, click on Member Center.

Enter your CSA or Co-op member number and password.
Then you can access your payment history, CSA balance, and sign up for work shifts if you are a working shareholder. If you have any questions about your account, please contact our member coordinator at member@weaversway.coop

New Friday Farm Stand

This year, we are moving our “Wednesday Farm Stand” to Fridays, during the CSA pick-up, from 2-6pm. This change was made for a few reasons.

1.      This is an attempt to keep the harvests more equal, since Tuesdays are much more popular CSA pick up days. If we divided each harvest by the number of people coming on either a Tuesday or a Friday, then Friday people would always get more food since there are fewer shareholders picking up that day. Harvesting a bit more on Fridays for the public, keeps the share more equal from Tuesday to Friday.

2.      The farm stand ensures that our produce can be available and accessible to the neighborhood, while acknowledging that a CSA model is not for everyone.

3.       It has always been important to us at Henry Got Crops to serve the Saul community. Most students and teachers commute from all over the city to be a part of this unique high school. This means that when school is out for summer, students and teachers at Saul who do not live in the neighborhood would have a prohibitive commute to come to the farm to get their share.  Having a farm stand ensures this community has access to the food grown on their campus, when they are on campus, in the spring and fall.

4.      It saves time and labor! Running the “Wednesday Farm Stand” took one or two people on staff away from field work for at least four hours every week. By opening the farm stand during the CSA pick-up, the shareholders who staff the pick-up can manage both at the same time, keeping our skilled farming team where they are needed most- tending to your vegetables!

Welcome (back) to Henry Got Crops!

I am proud to say this is the 5^th season for Henry Got Crops. I am proud to say many shareholders have been with us for 5 years. I’m proud to farm on the campus of a public high school. I’m proud that this high school is one of two urban, agricultural high schools in the country. I’m proud to be one of only two co-ops in the country with farmers on staff. I’m proud that we grow in a city. I’m proud that we do not buy in produce from other locations to fill your vegetable share. I’m proud to be part of an educational farm that not only serves as an outdoor classroom for urban youth, but also serves to train adults through our internship and apprentice program. Sometimes I think what we are trying to accomplish at Henry Got Crops is crazy and destined to be forever difficult and inherently challenging: we are part of a business that operates a grocery store which at its core is not structured to operate a farm; we are part of a nonprofit that works with over a thousand youth every year, yet has less than five year-round, full time staff; we have teenagers with little to no expert farming experience contribute to the production of the CSA; we partner with an under-funded public school that suffers from the budget cuts and staff and schedule changes of a rocky school district. But yet…I can think of no other place I would rather farm, work, sweat and laugh. This piece of land serves as the source of food for over 100 families, serves as a safe place to hang out after school, serves as a place for new parents to show their young children cows and sheep and horses. It serves as a place to get away from the business and craziness of the urban rush, while never leaving the city. Please enjoy this farm, as it is YOUR farm: picnic on the lawn, watch the sunset, pick a tomato. Talk to a stranger and ask them what brought them here, it very well might be that they came to this piece of land for the same reason you have.