Choose the share that's right for you. A large share supplies about 20 pounds of produce week (varies seasonally), and is ideal for a family of 4. A medium share supplies about 12 pounds of produce week, ideal for a couple or a vegetable loving person. A small share supplies about 7 pounds of produce per week. We do encourage those interested in medium and small shares to join together with a friend and order a full-share, it is more economical for you and easier logistically for us. Choose the types of shares you would like. We offer full-season vegetable and berry shares, and a 10 week flower share.

Also, select where you would like to pick up your share. Currently, we offer distribution on the farm and in Winchester, MA at the Whole Foods on rte. 3.

This allows us to focus on planting, caring for and harvesting your crops when the time comes and take care of marketing our produce earlier in the season. And when the time comes for share delivery, we are fully devoted to delivering you the best-quality shares we possibly can!

We raise over 100 varieties of vegetables, including over fifteen different sweet corn varieties, heirloom and cherry tomatoes, carrots, peas, beans, eggplant, peppers, pumpkins, squash, radishes, spinach, mesclun mix, strawberries, asparagus, raspberries, blueberries,  cucumbers, lettuce, herbs, garlic, onions, potatoes, broccoli, rainbow chard, flowers, melons and much more!

Pick-up is either on the farm or in Winchester on Tuesdays, from 3:30-6:30. We set up your produce in a market-style set-up, and you fill your bags with your weekly share of delicious, healthy produce!

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We are now offering an experimental Fall Share program through Brandeis University. This is an 8-week fall CSA for Brandeis University students and employees only. There is currently one share size, at $200.00 for an eight-week season. A share will be enough produce for 2-3 people per week.

The mix for fall will include things like potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, some tomatoes and corn in the early part of the fall, and then things like broccoli and kale and cooking & salad greens, apples and onions!

Pick-up day and time information to follow shortly.

We hope that your summer is going well, and that you're not wilting in the heat we've had! We're doing our level best to keep our plants from wilting- it's been quite the battle. We have just started picking field tomatoes (early this year like everything else) and we're in full swing with corn, beans, zucchini, summer squash, and many other crops.

We are still accepting CSA members even though we're 6 weeks into the 20-week season. We offer pro-rated prices, so you only pay for what you get! Please email us for more information about the CSA and pricing.

We've ended up at two farmers markets this summer, Winchester and Cambridge Center, and they're both working out very well for us. Please come to visit, say hello and check out all of the other awesome vendors at these markets! Winchester is Saturdays from 9:30am-1:30pm and Cambridge Center is Wednesdays from 11:00am-6:00pm.

Keep on enjoying the summer!

-Warner Farm

Just a quick note to let you all know that we're pretty busy on the farm! We're selling our sweet, delicious strawberries and our amazing asparagus at the new Cambridge Center Farmer's Market (Wednesdays 11am-6pm, on Main St. in the Kendall Square area- near Legal Sea Foods and the Kendall T stop) and we'll be selling at the new Prudential Farmers Market very soon, as well as returning to the Medford and Winchester markets in June. CSA stuff will start up then, as well!

We've been planting lots of great-looking seedlings (crops such as eggplant and tomatoes) in our fields, and we're seeing other crops like carrots and onions poke their way up through the soil. We've had some beautiful weather and everything's growing nicely- we can't wait to share it all with you!

See you soon!

-By purchasing a share at Warner Farm you are directly supporting the growing movement to endorse sustainable farming practices and healthy eating.

-The more members we have, the more exciting our CSA is!

-We want to hear from you on what kinds of food you want us to grow, and also what else you would like to source locally.

- Warner Farm has been a reliable source of fresh, local produce since the 18th century when the farm was started. Our wide diversity of crops and varieties assures that you will always receive the best tasting fruits and vegetables!

-Our growing practices, including reduced-tillage, zone-tillage, Integrated Pest Management, and some Certified Organic produce help to offset the environmentally detrimental effects of industrial food production, and help keep carbon in the soil and all the best nutrients and flavor in your food!

-We provide stable jobs for local people during the growing months and off-season, and invest in other local businesses.

- We are passionate about delivering you the highest quality, best value produce we can while eliminating costly links in the traditional distribution of food.

- We are part of the wider Pioneer Valley agricultural community, which provides a bounty of a wide range of crops every year to the state and region, assuring that you will always receive a fresh variety of items each week.

CSAs were first started in Switzerland and Japan during the 1960's in response to growing concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land. In Europe, many of the CSA-style farms were inspired by the economic ideas of Rudolf Steiner and experiments with community agriculture took place on farms using biodynamic agriculture.

In Japan, the name for CSAs is teikei(提携), meaning, in a sense, to put the farmer's face on the food.

Check out the wikipedia entry on CSAs for a good overview of the general practices and philosophy of a CSA farm, and what it means to be a part of one. Click here to learn more about our CSA