What is a "CSA"?

CSA traditionally stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Consumers buy a "share" in a farms' season and each week get a box of produce and fruit produced on the farm. The Greensgrow version we refer to as City Supported Agriculture. You can read more about our CSA on the CSA page. 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) (See Do you "deliver" CSA shares?) 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.