Greenbank CSA

What Is A CSA?

The Greenbank Farm Training Center is proud to be offering memberships in our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program again in 2010! CSA members receive a weekly assortment of fresh-picked organic produce from June 1st until October 15th at 20% off what you could expect to pay for retail produce. For fresh, flavorful and affordable produce, nothing beats joining our CSA!

In 2010 our certified organic fields will be managed by experienced farmer Sebastian Aguilar along with the students of the Greenbank Farm Training Center. Your membership not only brings you fresh wholesome food but helps support to the Training Center's mission which includes:
**Growing new farmers to support the movement towards a more local and sustainable agriculture.

**Regenerating the agricultural spirit of the community-owned, historic Greenbank Farm.

**Supplying you, our community, with top-quality food.

For more information on the Training Center, please follow this link:
Greenbank Training Center

As part of our farm community you'll feel a sense of place, eating what Whidbey Island can offer, while developing your palette and noticing flavors in vegetables that don't ship across the country, or wait for you on grocery shelves. Regular newsletters will offer news and recipes to keep you informed and adept in the kitchen. Opportunities to visit (and volunteer in) the fields offer a chance to connect with your farmers and deepen your awareness of land, food and self.

We've created our share size for couples or small families who cook with vegetables often. We focus on providing a steady and abundant supply of the favorite vegetables like lettuce, carrots, onions and tomatoes while offering a rotating sampling of specialty crops such as arugula, fennel, parsnips, and bok-choi. The vegetables offered in this year's share include lettuce, green beans, broccoli, tomatoes, garlic, carrots, chard, onions, leeks, cucumbers, summer and winter squash, fennel, kale, bokchoi, beets, arugula, oriental greens, parsnips, peas, cauliflower, potatoes, rutabagas, spinach, brussel sprouts, cabbage, turnips, basil, cilantro, parsley, radishes, and more!

We strive to offer good value with our produce and our share price of $450 is 20% below its retail value. Payment plan options are available. Several pick-up sites (to be announced) will serve members from Oak Harbor through South Whidbey. To sign up, please fill out the following:

Greenbank CSA Subscription Form

Make a committment to eat more fresh local vegetables. The vitamin-packed, nutritionally rich foods in your box each week will improve your family's diet. Everything is organically grown so you know the food is safe and the environment was protected, even enhanced, in the growing process. Let us be your partners in health.

For more information contact:
Sebastian Aguilar
Greenbank Farm Training Center Coordinator
360-222-3171

Sebastian Aguilar from Port Townsend has been hired as the new Training Center Coordinator for 2010. He and his wife Kelly have three children and have managed farms in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Washington State. Sebastian's passions for top-quality produce, healthy soils, biodynamics and social outreach guide his farming practices. Sebastian has hosted apprentices on his farms for the past 10 years and always provided them with a weekly afternoon 'farm school' exploring the concepts behind the practical work. On the Aguilar's farm in Port Townsend, they used minimum tillage, cover cropping, compost, and biodynamic preparations to build and maintain healthy soils. They sold produce through the Port Townsend Food Coop, three farmers markets, and a CSA program as well as grew variety trials for the Organic Seed Alliance.