CSAs (Garden)

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.

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

Claggett Farm

For 20 years the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s 285 acre Clagett Farm has provided free and reduced-price, fresh produce to people living in poverty and near-poverty in Washington, D.C. The project, a collaboration with Capital Area Food Bank, blends local, sustainable organic agriculture with social justice.

Claggett Farm

Claggett Farm - 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

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.

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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.

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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.

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FRESHFARM Markets - Specific Information on CSAs

Good Sense Farm

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Good Sense Farm & Apiary provides a diverse array of local delicacies and an empowering learning environment for foodies from all walks of life. We grow gourmet mushrooms and raise healthy bee colonies that produce the finest local honey.

Good Sense Farm

Good Sense Farm - Specific Information on CSAs

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

Old City Farm & Guild

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Old City Farm & Guild is a green space that provides educational programming and facilitates community activities surrounding gardening, nutrition, and environmental education. It is a hub for other green organizations to cross-pollinate. It sells plants, soil, and other gardening supplies in order to support the cost of running these programs; and provides a CSA program for our neighbors, and organic vegetables and fruits for public gardens and area organizations. “Where people and Plants Come Together”.

Old City Farm & Guild

Old City Farm & Guild - 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

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

Up Top Acres

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Up Top Acres designs, builds and operates roof-top farms on commercial and residential properties in the District of Columbia.

Up Top Acres

Up Top Acres - Specific Information on CSAs

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