What is a "CSA"?

CSA traditionally stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Consumers buy a "share" in a farm’s season and each week get a box of produce and fruit produced on the farm. Given our roots in the heart of Philadelphia, we refer to the Greensgrow version as City Supported Agriculture. Greensgrow operates a weekly summer CSA that runs from late May into November and a Winter CSA from early December through late spring. CSA’s are not the right buying vehicle for everyone. If you are considering it, we suggest that you purchase a half summer share to see how it works for you and your household.

You can read more about our CSA below. For more on CSA's in general, visit the Robin Van En CSA Center at Wilson College.

We've tweaked the basic idea and have built a CSA designed around you - the distinctly urban consumer who's looking for more than just veggies and who wants to try a wide variety of the unique foods our region has to offer. There's no other CSA like it! Greensgrow brings together the best of urban and rural: a neighborhood farm, food fresh from the country, and Philadelphia's own unique epicurean traditions.

In City Supported Agriculture, we work with a network of rural growers and small Philadelphia businesses to gather a variety of humanely raised meat and dairy products as well as seasonal produce items to complement the vegetables we grow ourselves. We also include items like artisan breads from Philadelphia's well-known bakeries, Greensgrow's own "Honey from the Hood," and organic tofu made nearby in Fairmount.

Members in the Greensgrow CSA visit our farm in Kensington each week (or every other week) to pick up their share of the region's bounty. City Supported Agriculture's goal is to bridge the urban/rural divide by providing Philadelphians with the finest and freshest the region has to offer while supporting our local family farms and neighboring small businesses.