CSAs (Food Access)

Community-supported agriculture, generally called CSA, allows residents to buy local, seasonal produce directly from a farmer in their community, most commonly by purchasing “shares” of a farmer’s monthly yield. They’re also a great way to support local farmers and gain access to the freshest food available. Various types of CSAs are available to DC- metro residents through the farms and entities shown below. For the interactive Washington Post’s map of 72 farms that have CSAs in the DC area follow this link.

4P Foods

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4P Foods sources farm-fresh food from farms in the Washington DC local foodshed and delivers them to your office or apartment building once each week.

4P Foods

4P Foods - Specific Information on CSAs

Arlington Food Assistance Center

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Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC) is a community-based non-profit that provides supplemental groceries to residents of Arlington in need. AFAC remains dedicated to its simple but critical mission of obtaining and distributing groceries, directly and free of charge, to people living in Arlington who cannot afford to purchase enough food to meet their basic needs.

Arlington Food Assistance Center

Arlington Food Assistance Center - Specific Information on CSAs

Centro Ashé

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Centro Ashé is a community rooted education center, farmstead, and medicinal plant sanctuary in Southern Maryland just south of Washington DC as well as Talamanca, Costa Rica. It seeks to engage community through organizing educational activities that celebrate the art, tradition, and culture of herbalism, and that cultivate meaningful connections with the earth and each other.

Centro Ashé

Centro Ashé - Specific Information on CSAs

Common Good City Farm

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Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.

Common Good City Farm

Common Good City Farm - Specific Information on CSAs

Community Farming Alliance

Farmers and Market Gardeners coming together to build a cooperative network in DC. Food Justice, Environmental Justice, Economic Justice, Racial and Gender Justice.

Community Farming Alliance

Community Farming Alliance - Specific Information on CSAs

Community Foodworks

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Creating market opportunities for local farmers and food producers in the mid-Atlantic region while increasing access to good, healthy, local food. Through its markets and staff, Community Foodworks works to maintain a strong presence in the communities we serve. We’ve forged strong partnerships with local schools, health clinics, WIC centers, and community groups to project a sense of welcome across the community and introduce families to local food as well as our financial support programs.

Community Foodworks

Community Foodworks - Specific Information on CSAs

Cultivate the City

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Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.

Cultivate the City

Cultivate the City - Specific Information on CSAs

DC UrbanGreens, Inc.

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DC UrbanGreens’ mission is to feed bodies and nourish minds by increasing accessibility of affordable healthy foods to residents of food desert neighborhoods. A non-profit organization east of the Anacostia River in DC’s Ward 7 and Ward 8, DC UrbanGreens produces chemical-free fruits and vegetables on under-utilitized urban land. The organization employs innovative and scalable methods, techniques and business models to implement small-scale urban agriculture in a fiscally and environmentally sustainable way.

DC UrbanGreens, Inc.

DC UrbanGreens, Inc. - Specific Information on CSAs

ECO City Farms

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ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.

ECO City Farms

ECO City Farms - Specific Information on CSAs

FRESHFARM Markets

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FreshFarm Markets strive to build and strengthen the local-food movement in the Chesapeake Bay region, using farmers markets to create vibrant urban and community places, providing economic opportunities for farmers and artisanal food producers and showcasing our region’s agricultural bounty. FRESHFARM Markets operates 11 producer-only farmers markets with more than 110 farmers and producers from 5 states who farm more than 9,000 acres.

FRESHFARM Markets

FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on CSAs

From the Farmer DC

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From the Farmer delivers farm-fresh fruits and vegetables to your home, which means eating fresh and seasonal in the D.C. area is now as easy as opening your front door.

From the Farmer DC

Hometown Harvest

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We are a unique home delivery service of fresh local organic fruit and veggies to MD, DC, and VA

Hometown Harvest

Hometown Harvest - Specific Information on CSAs

Hungry Harvest

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Hungry Harvest, LLC aims to create an efficient agricultural food system with zero waste by supplying gleaned and recovered produce that is inexpensive, healthy, and convenient to fight hunger in food deserts.

Hungry Harvest

Little Red Bird Botanicals

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Little Red Bird Botanicals offers the expertise of Holly Poole-Kavana, an herbalist working with clients on specific health issues and helping to deepen their connection to, and awareness of, healing plants. The company provides herbal consultations, plant walks, events and classes, and an herbal CSA.

Little Red Bird Botanicals

Little Red Bird Botanicals - Specific Information on CSAs

Owl’s Nest Farm CSA

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Owl’s Nest Farm grows unique, delicious, diverse vegetables on four acres in Upper Marlboro, MD, just twenty miles from Washington, DC. Managed cooperatively by farmer-friends Spencer Ellsworth, Genevieve Fulco and Liz Whitehurst, Owl’s Nest Farm uses organic practices to grow real food for our CSA members, farmer’s market customers, restaurants, and friends.

Owl’s Nest Farm CSA

Owl’s Nest Farm CSA - Specific Information on CSAs

Relay Foods

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The Healthy Online Grocery Store. Shop healthy, responsibly-sourced groceries right from your computer or mobile device and have them delivered.

Relay Foods

THEARC Farm

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THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.

THEARC Farm

THEARC Farm - Specific Information on CSAs

Three Part Harmony Farm

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Three Part Harmony Farm is part of a community that grows, sells and eats healthy food. An urban farm on a 2-acre parcel in Northeast Washington, DC, most of its produce is sold through a community supported agriculture (CSA) program, and at area stores and restaurants.

Three Part Harmony Farm

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