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2026 CSA Season – Certified organic vegetables from Golden Earthworm Organic Farm – 22 weeks, June 18th – November 12th

Pick up Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd St., Jackson Heights, NY 11372

WHAT’S IN EACH BOX?  
We fill your large box with 8-11 different types of vegetables that are at their peak harvest on our family farm.  Each week’s box is carefully curated and farmers’ choice, meaning that you get the widest variety – always fresh, always seasonal, always Certified Organic. We grow over 100 different varieties and no two weeks will be the same! 

ADD-ON SHARES
Fruit Share: Apples, Peaches, Pears, Blueberries from our farmer friends at local orchards. Not Certified Organic, but the tree fruit is ecologically-grown. July-November.

HOW DO I CHOOSE MY DELIVERY FREQUENCY?
Family households/Couples who cook regularly, or two households that split a shareWeekly delivery 
Singles and couples who cook less frequently = Bi-weekly Delivery

ALL THE PERKS…
Weekly Newsletters with Recipes & Cooking Tips, a custom Golden Earthworm Organic Farm bag, Virtual Farm Tours, Online Membership Community & Your Very Own Farmer!

VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENT:
Sign up here!
Two volunteer shifts required per share* (Not per person or household – if two households split a share, it’s still a total of two shifts.) *Unless someone is unable to physically fulfill the volunteer responsibilities. Questions? Contact the Volunteer Coordinator.

UNCLAIMED SHARES POLICY
Members must pick up their share during the distribution hours. If they are unable to make it, they can ask a friend or neighbor to pick up on their behalf – simple give them the name the share is listed under. Any unclaimed shares will be donated appropriately.

ADMIN FEE
All shares include a 7% Admin Fee which goes towards rent at the church, and any leftover funds go towards our subsidized share program.

CONSIDER DONATING TO HELP SUBSIDIZE SHARES
Please consider making a donation to help your Farmspot Core Group subsidize CSA shares in your community. Thank you.

QUESTIONS FOR YOUR CORE GROUP
Please contact farmspot@gmail.com with general inquiries about the CSA.

EARLY BIRD PRICING & FREE TOTE BAG! Save 2% on your admin fee and receive a free Golden Earthworm Tote Bag if you sign up before April 15th, 2026!

Weekly Delivery

Pay by Check: Download a Paper Contract (pdf) & save the credit card fees!
Pay by Credit Card: Links below include CC fees.

WEEKLY VEGETABLE BOX: $897.07 (option to pay in three monthly installments)

BI-WEEKLY VEGETABLE BOX: $448.68 Pick up a full-sized box every other week. (option to pay in three monthly installments) NOTE: we’ll assign members either WEEK A or WEEK B after sign-ups are complete. If you have a preference please email us at farmspot@gmail.com

ADD-ON WEEKLY FRUIT SHARE: $151.20

ADD-ON BI-WEEKLY FRUIT SHARE: $72

Please consider making a donation to your Farmspot Core Group to help cover the cost of subsidized shares in your community. This is the first year since Farm Spot was founded in 2006 that we’re unable to offer subsidized shares, due to a lack of funds. Your generosity in helping us stay accessible to as many neighbors as possible is greatly appreciated.

Donation to Subsidized Shares

another UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, please note these important changes to the Winter CSA Share.

  • The first delivery has been rescheduled to Thursday, JANUARY 15th.
  • NO delivery on January 8th.
  • The pick-up location has been changed to:
  • Sunnyside CSA
  • at SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • 43-31 39th St., Sunnyside, NY 11104
  • (corner 39th St. and Queens Blvd, near the “40th St” stop on 7 TRAIN)

We just received details about the Deep Winter 2026 Vegetable Share from Golden Earthworm Organic Farm. 
This winter share will have three distributions, all Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm at St. Mark’s Church: January 8th, February 5th, and February 26th.

We apologize for the short notice, especially during the holiday season, but there is a quick turnaround.

Please sign up by December 31st!

Optional add-on Apple Share: Large, 5lb tote of Apples from Champlain Orchards.  Ecologically-grown, non-organic. Price: $38

Volunteer: As a volunteer-run organization, we ask that each share volunteers for one distribution shift during the winter share. (Note: if two households split a share, just one distribution shift is required.) We will be sending out a link to members to sign up for volunteer shifts soon.

Mushroom Share from Big Apple Fungi

Local Queens mushroom farm. The variety of mushrooms will vary based on availability, but mostly will include: oyster, king trumpet, lion’s mane, shimeji, maitake and chestnut.

Prices are for three deliveries: 1/2 pound is $30; 1 pound is $60.

Sign up HERE

Questions about mushrooms: info@myshrooms.one

Wishing everyone very Happy Holidays!

Pick up at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd St., Jackson Heights, NY, 11372, Thursdays, 5:30 – 8:00pm.

Fruit Share: This is a 16-week fruit share from Champlain Orchards of Shoreham, Vermont. Pickup will be at the same time as the vegetable CSA (Thursdays from 5:30 – 8:00pm at St. Mark’s Church, 33-50 82nd St.), but PLEASE NOTE: distribution will begin in August, with exact start date to be determined later in the summer as the fruit ripens. We will announce the date via email and website.

Prices:

Full Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $909.04

Biweekly Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $454.52

Subsidized Vegetable Share, April 23rd – June 7th: $454.52

Full Fruit Share: $176.32

Biweekly Fruit Share: $88.16

Early Bird Pricing! For the first time, we’re offering a special early bird price for members who sign up by April 22nd, 2025.

Refer a Friend! Receive a gift of a canvas Farm Spot tote bag if you refer a friend who signs up for a vegetable share. Be sure to drop us a line to let us know!

Biweekly Share! This year we are offering a vegetable share every other week (instead of every week). There will be Week A and Week B distributions. You will be assigned a week. If you have a preference, please let us know and we’ll do our best to accommodate you if we can. (The farm needs to split the alternate week shares 50/50 in terms of delivering, so we’ll need to keep a balance between Weeks A and B.)

Subsidized Vegetable Share In an effort to keep CSA shares accessible regardless of income level, Farm Spot offers a limited number of Subsidized Vegetable Shares. Sign up is on the honor system, available on a first come first serve basis. As more funds become available, we will increase the number of subsidized shares. 

2025 Pricing – Please read the message from Golden Earthworm Farm about their price increase this year: “You’ll notice an increase in the vegetable share price, reflective of our increasing costs of labor and transport.  This year the government’s mandatory wage rate increase jumped to $18.80/hour.  We had also underestimated the transport costs last season, so those had to be adjusted so we don’t lose money.  Under normal circumstances, we don’t expect significant share price increases from year to year.”  If you have any questions about the details of this increase, please let us know.  

A Farm Spot Administrative Fee has been added to the price of our shares to cover our expenses, most notably the rent we are required to pay to St. Mark’s Church for weekly use of the space. Since we cannot know how many shares will be sold every year, we do our best to calculate the administrative fee based on past years. If we have excess funds, they are rolled over into the subsidized share fund. 

Two volunteer shifts required per share* (not per household, so if two households split a share, it’s still a total of two shifts) *unless someone is unable to physically fulfill the volunteer responsibilities.

Questions: farmspot@gmail.com