Our 6th growing season serving Independence, Blue Springs, Lee’s Summit and Kansas City is well under way and now we are adding Overland Park to the mix!
With the addition of the Overland Park Farmer’s market this year, and great customer demand there, we are excited to add a CSA pick up location at the OP Farmer’s Market!
Much of our fields are already planted and our greenhouses are full of transplants ready to go out in the field. Despite the cold spring we are on track to start our extended CSA program on April 30. If you want to eat local and eat healthy, joining Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms CSA Membership Plan is the perfect way to boost your intake of healthy foods sustainably grown by your neighborhood farmers. The CSA is a membership plan that allows you to share in the produce from our Independence, MO family farm. In effect, by joining the CSA you are joining into a very large home-grown organic vegetable garden–A garden managed without the use of harmful chemical pesticides or herbicides, and one that requires far less of your time and yields far more variety than if you were to put in your own garden. We offer two different membership levels to meet the needs of your household. The Basic Share includes 5 different types of vegetables or 20-25 servings per week. The Premium Share includes 8 different vegetables or 32 – 40 servings per week.
So why join our CSA program?
- When you join our CSA you’ll receive a steady stream of fresh vegetables for 20 weeks
- Freedom to Choose. Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms CSA allows you to customize the contents of your box. Unlike most Kansas City CSA’s, we have a market style CSA. Each week you choose the contents of your box from the wide variety of available crops. Read more here about how our CSA works.
- Seasonal Eating. CSA members truly eat with the seasons, enjoying fresh leafy greens throughout the summer, tomatoes in July, and hearty roots and sturdy greens in the fall. Our seasonal produce is picked at the height of freshness, yielding the highest nutritional content.
- Fresh, fresh, fresh. When you join our CSA your vegetables will come from the field to your table within a couple days, allowing you to serve your family the freshest food possible.
- Meal Planning. CSA vegetables provide a healthy base for weekly meal planning. With every CSA Share we include meal ideas, recipes, and general prep and storage tips. Eating healthy becomes easy and routine. Click Here to view a sample weekly email.
- Exposure to new foods. We grow a lot of crops that are familiar to most people. Most weeks you’ll have the option to choose an item or two that might be new to you, try them right along with your favorite foods. This is also a great way to get kids trying new foods from the start, make trying new foods a fun and regular occurrence!
- Connection to your Food and Farmers. You’ll get a chance to meet your farmers and understand what went into the food on your table. You’ll be seeing us each week when you pick up your shares at the farm, the Lee’s Summit Farmer’s Market or the Overland Park Farmer’s Market. Members love bringing kids to feed the chickens and enjoy the outdoors. If you like getting your hands dirty and want to save some money, you can also get a discount by signing up for work shifts to help us harvest a few times throughout the season.
- Options for other great farm produce. We provide free range eggs and honey from our farm for sale. We also have our own farm raised hormone free pork and grass fed beef for sale at the farm. If you pick up at the farm we often have some blemished produce available for free to CSA members.
- Our farm serves a large area of Kansas City. We have pick up locations at the Independence farm as well as at the Overland Park Farmer’s Market and the Lee’s Summit Farmer’s Market.
- Our CSA shares break down to a very low cost per week. Members boxes include more than the retail value each week, giving our members access to fresh, healthy food at a reduced price. Sign up now and save!
- You’ll be doing your part to support local, environmentally-responsible agriculture!
Click Here to check out your CSA membership options. Shares are limited!
Where the Redfearn Grows Natural Farms was founded with the belief that natural ecosystems hold within them the keys to growing healthy food. We believe in cooperation with nature rather than the subjugation of it. We bring ancient organic agricultural wisdom and modern biological research together to develop growing practices for our community supported agriculture program (CSA) that mimic naturally-occurring processes. The result is healthier food and a healthier environment. For all produce grown for our Kansas City area community supported agriculture program we reject the use of: chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers or GMO seeds. We aim to protect biodiversity, build organic matter in the soil, prevent pollution, reduce waste, and conserve resources on our Independence Missouri farm. The health of our family, our customers and our environment is of critical importance to us. That is why preserving natural practices in growing the produce we provide to our Kansas City area CSA members is part of who we are.
Questions about joining our CSA? Call us – 816-457-1223 or email us at sheri@redfearnfarm.com.
