Support you local organic farmer, join the South Central Farmers' Community Supported Agriculture (SCFCSA).

Who: Support the South Central Farmers and eat fresh organic produce while you're at it.

What: Join our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

When: Starting today!

Where: At any of our four farmer's market locations (Atwater Village, Sherman Oaks, Lawndale, LA City Hall, Leimert Park, Watts and Hollywood), drop of sites: Long Beach, Knox Presbyterian (Pasadena), Whole Foods Arroyo Parkway (Pasadena), Figueroa Produce Market (Highland Park), Lebec, UCLA, Culver City -- or create a drop off site in your neighborhood. For more information Drop Off Locations

How Much: $15, $20, $25 or $40 ... All boxes are the same, it is up to you to decide how much you can financially support the Farming Cooperative at this time.

Contact us at 1-800-249-5240 or csa@southcentralfarmers.com or  Click Link to Order  .

Farming and Volunteering

 

Exchange Your Labor for Produce (or volunteer for fun):

           

            There are several opportunities to participate in the day to day activities of the SCF Cooperative. This is also a way to trade work for produce. By participating in some of the following opportunities CSA members can experience the work of the farmers and share in the life of the farm. Similarly, there are also ways to volunteer if consistent work on the farm is not possible.

 

§      Work on the farm

§      Help sell at a local Farmer’s Market

§      Do outreach in your community

§      Help coordinate seasonal or regional CSA dinner

§      Host a healthy eating community (See below for more information)

The Community:

           

            We seek to encourage our CSA members to gather and build community around healthy eating. Members would be able to encourage place-based/local-knowledge strategies for better living through nutritious and sustainable food supply, as well as, developing and celebrating cultural differences around food. Through this, eating communities will provide up-to-date reliable food and health information with resources and feedback to develop healthy eating patterns amongst its members and throughout society.

 

            Our hope is for healthy eating communities to negotiate their own definition of what constitutes healthy. So often we are bombarded with the latest fads, trends, and diets, which tell us what healthy is. Similarly, civil society imposes limitations and determines what is “good” or “healthy” for our communities based scientific, medical, political or corporate needs. We believe that people can engender their own base of knowledge and discourse to create a definition of what experience and knowledge of life “is”. We hope that through discussion of personal knowledge and learning experiences that our members will come to understand what improves their quality of life.

 

            Much of this conversation emerges out of communities of discourse and we hope through our CSA members that such dialogue can develop. Two goals that we have for this are our seasonal CSA dinner and these healthy eating communities. In these two places we can come together to discuss and determine for ourselves what it means to be healthy…to live healthily.

 

CSA Dinner:

 

            At the end of every season we will hold a CSA member dinner, which will bring CSA members together to share recipes, stories and community. This is an event that is coordinated by both farmers and CSA members. This space is an opportunity for the farmers and CSA members to connect on another level and to continue envisioning the relationship between the local farmer and community.

 

Healthy Eating Communities:

           

            As mentioned earlier, we hope to help form Healthy Eating Communities based by regional CSA membership. These will function as another space to share recipes, food tips, healthy eating and sustainable living thoughts, as well as form smaller communities of connecting within such a large city.