CSA FAQ
What is a CSA?
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, a popular model for buying fresh produce or flowers and supporting local farms. In becoming a CSA member, you are buying a share of the our farm’s future harvest. Each week, we reserve a percentage of our harvest to share amongst our CSA members. Our CSA members are a vital part of our farm’s business model. By making an up-front investment in our farm’s future, members provide us with an important level of certainty for our growing plans and critical financial resources during our planting time, when our costs are at their highest. The CSA model is a shared reward and shared risk model. This means that when our harvest is plentiful, members reap the benefits of our hard work, but farming naturally has risks that an be out of our control despite our best mitigation efforts. Inevitably, there will be seasons with a slow start or an abrupt end and occasional crop failure. Luckily, we grow a large variety of flowers so we have always had more than enough to share with our members throughout the year.
Why join a CSA?
Personal Health - You get to enjoy seasonal and fresh flowers, usually delivered within 48 hours after harvesting. Our flowers are grown without chemicals following organic farming principles and don’t require harsh preservatives that shipped flowers do.
Economics - On average, our members should save at least 18% off of retail prices. By supporting local businesses, you also keep your money circulating in your community.
Sustainability – Supporting a local farm ensures that farmland and farming knowledge stays in the community, which is great for the landscape but even more importantly ensures that local food will be available into the future.
Environmental Health – Buying local uses less fossil fuel for transportation and farming without pesticides keeps harsh chemicals out of the environment.
Community Building – Knowing your farmer and knowing where your flowers come helps in creating a stronger community.
Do you offer home delivery?
As our business has grown, it is no longer logistically or financially feasible for us to offer home delivery to all of our CSA customers. To do so would require critical time away from our fields and impact the quality of our flowers. For 2026, we will continue to deliver to existing customers for shares purchased before January 15th.
Where and when do I get my flowers?
We are in the process of identifying convenient pickup locations throughout the area including Potomac, Bethesda, Washington DC and Alexandria VA. We will announce these locations in early January. Additionally, flowers can be picked up at our farm, where we will be opening a new flower barn market in Spring 2026. CSA shares will be available for pickup by noon on Fridays through Sunday.
What if I and need to miss a week?
When possible, please let us know in advance if you need to skip a week. We have built in a week between shares for rescheduling skipped weeks. Additionally, you can carryover missed week’s to the next season or year, if needed. You can also pass your share on to a friend or family member for pickup. Just have them give your name at pickup.
How long is your season?
Our growing season actually begins the previous fall with the planting of bulbs for our spring collection and continues through the winter with seeds started in the greenhouse. With that early start and the help of a geothermal greenhouse, we begin harvesting some of spring flowers as early as late January, in time for for Valentine’s Day. Each of our three CSA seasons are ten weeks starting with our Spring Share, which begins on March 21st. There is a week off between each of our seasonal shares.