Champaign-Urbana, it’s time to sign up for a CSA. What’s a CSA? CSA is community-supported agriculture in which individuals buy a whole season’s worth of goods from a local farm or business up front and receive a bounty each week (or month) of the season. If you want to learn more about CSA, check out The Land Connection’s helpful PSA on local CSA.
We have a great variety of Champaign-Urbana CSA share options including regular boxes of local produce, bacon, mushrooms, eggs, cakes, and more.
Fruits and Vegetables CSA
Since 1980, Brackett Farm has grown organic produce in C-U, and each year the farm produces tasty fruits and vegetables for Brackett Farm CSA members. The farm has a CSA brochure with the chronological order of produce one can expect. Shares cover over a 24-week season, and payment is due by the first pick up, but if needed, payment installation plans are available. Pick up is on Tuesday afternoons in Champaign. To sign up, print this contract and mail it to the farm with a check.
Hendrick House CSA sign up is open now. The farm offers two kinds of shares: ones for 4-5 people and one for 1-2 servings, with options for either every week or every-other week. The Hendrick House CSA includes a tour of the ten-acre farm and an Eat and Greet. Shares can be picked up on the weekends at The Hendrick House Farm or delivered on Friday mornings.
Sola Gratia Farm grows over fifty different crops in Urbana. The farm’s CSA has both summer (20 weeks) and the fall (4 weeks) options with both pick up and delivery. Members can add-on a bread share from Rick’s Bakery and or a Flyway Family Farm mushroom share. Sola Gratia Farm CSA shares sell out each year, so if you want to receive weekly produce from the Urbana farm, sign up soon.
Salted Spade is a Mahomet farm that offers 14-16 week shares over the summer. Pick up is on Monday afternoons at the farm in Mahomet. Sign up here.
Meat CSAs
Multi-generational family farm Triple S Farms has a Buyer’s Club, and members can purchase first pick of the farm’s beef, chicken, eggs, bacon, and other pork products for a $40 membership fee. Members receive a discount on all products. Ordering is done online with pick up at the Urbana Farmers’ Market on Saturdays. Triple S Farms also delivers in the C-U area each week on Thursdays. Sign up for the Buyer’s Club on the farm’s website.
Bane Family Meats has a CSA available with monthly bundles of beef, chicken, pork, lamb, and/or turkey with the option to add pasture-raised eggs. Pick up your proteins at the farm or have it delivered. Email the farm to buy CSA shares.
Cake, Mushroom, and Egg CSAs
Berries & Flour offers a monthly baked goods subscription with a choice of six cupcakes, six small square cakes, or a six inch round cake. Dates and time for pick up or delivery are flexible. Sign up here for regular orders of delicious cake by baker Heidi Leuszler.
Flyaway Family Farm grows mushrooms year-round and shares of the mushrooms can be started anytime. The farm’s CSA is 24 weeks for $200, which includes four complementary shares. The mushroom farm allows buyers to skip weeks if needed (without losing a share). Most weeks, members can even double up and use two shares in one week as long as there are enough mushrooms. Email the farm to sign up.
If you want milk or egg shares, check out the CSA at Joy of Illinois. As of this morning, the Champaign farm has seven egg shares still available. Joy of Illinois’ eggs will start this weekend and go for 38 weeks until mid-November. A full share of eggs is 12-18 eggs per week, and a half share is six to nine eggs. At Joy of Illinois, you can also sign up for fresh goat milk shares too. Pick up time is flexible. To get weekly eggs or milk, email the farm.
Non-food Champaign-Urbana CSA
Delight Flower Farm is a woman-owned flower farm in Champaign with cut flower CSA shares in addition to shorter spring and fall options. Already the 10 week summer pick-up CSA shares are full, and there are only a few remaining 15 week CSA shares. Flower pick up is on Thursday afternoons at the Champaign flower farm. Sign up online.
In Seymour, Illinois, the farm Illinois Willows has a CSA for seven weeks of flowers. Pick up is at the farmers’ market. Sign up on their website.
Florosophy Farms is a florist shop with their own flower farm in Urbana. The CSA is for six or 12 weeks of farm fresh flowers delivered to your door. Sign up here.
