Camden-Wyoming (Kent County)
Fifer’s Delmarva Box CSA [Fifer family]
1919 Allabands Mill Road
302.697.2141
14 pick up sites across the peninsula: Wilmington, Riverfront, Newark, Middletown, Smyrna, Dover, Milford, Lewes, Millsboro/Long Neck, Salisbury, Georgetown, Dewey Beach
www.fiferorchards.com
Greenville (New Castle County)
Coverdale Farm Preserve of Delaware Nature Society CSA [Dan O’Brien]
543 Way Road
302.239.2334
www.delawarenaturesociety.org
Newark (New Castle County)
Food Bank of Delaware’s 5 Acre Farm [John O’Connor]
222 Lake Drive
302.292.1305 Ext 267
Pick up sites in Newark & in Milford (Kent & Sussex counties)
https://www.fbd.org/csa/
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a growing movement in America, which has provided economic support and predictability to farmers, practicing traditional family farming, that they will be able to continue to farm, and that communities will be able to enjoy fresh, local farm products. Partnering with local farms by purchasing a “share” in the season’s harvest, consumers can know where their food is coming from and have the satisfaction of supporting local agriculture.
Participants, who purchase their shares early in the season, provide the farmer with a stable income, and in return they receive a weekly supply of fresh local farm products. This concept of Community Supported Agriculture was introduced into the United States in 1985 by Robyn Van En, who farmed in South Egremont, Massachusetts. She learned of the concept from a Swiss friend, Jan Vander Tuin, and within 4 years her farm’s original membership of 30 shares grew to 150.
Wilson College in Chambersberg, Pennsylvania has established the Robyn Van En Center in honor of Ms. Van En who died in 1997.
