CSA
2023 CSA registration is open!
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Healthy eating starts with healthy food. Join us for a season of fresh, certified organic produce. We are experienced farmers, known for growing high-quality, high-flavor produce. We can help you eat well.
Feel free to contact us with questions.
The CSA Relationship
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a commitment for both the farmer and the member. We treasure the stability you bring to our family-run business. In turn, we commit to providing our best, most-flavorful veggies each week.
Let our members tell you about our farm.
- “This is the highest quality CSA I’ve ever been a part of.”
- “We are Tipi Produce groupies!
- “Our kids love opening the box each week. Thank you so much for growing beautiful, organic, happy vegetables for our family! We’ll see you at the berry u-pick.”
CSA Shares & Prices
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2023 May – October Shares
Scroll down for “What’s in the Boxes?”.
2023 Fall Shares
These shares are delivered after our May – Oct season ends. Take a look at what we delivered in these shares last season.
Organic Apple Shares .
We partner with Chris & Juli McGuire of Two Onion Farm to offer organic apple shares at some Madison-area pickup sites. See the site list below.
Apple CSA deliveries begin in mid-August, run 12 weeks, and include apples from the 20 varieties they grow. They offer multiple shares and schedules. Sign up for Two Onion apples here.
Local, organic fruit is scarce, so we are thrilled to offer this partnership. Chris and Juli are experienced CSA farmers who are passionate about organic orcharding. They focus on locally-adapted varieties with diverse flavors, far beyond what you will taste in supermarket apples.
Pick-up Locations and Schedules
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View Tipi Produce Pickup Sites in a larger map
Madison to Evansville, Thursday delivery
🍎 = organic apple shares available from Two Onion Farm.
Evansville: at farm, Thurs. 3:15 – 7:00 p.m., 14706 W. Ahara Rd., Evansville. 🍎 Apple shares available 4:30 – 7:00pm.
Fitchburg: East, 🍎 . Thurs. 3:00 – 7:00 pm, 2774 Evoke Drive, Fitchburg
Fitchburg: West, Thurs. 3:00 – 7:00 pm, 3402 Country Grove Dr, Fitchburg
Madison: Atwood, 🍎 . Thurs. 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., 410 Miller Avenue, Madison
Madison: Junction Rd, 🍎 . Thurs. 3:00-8:00 pm, 122 Junction Rd, Madison, at Steve’s Wine.
Madison: Lake Edge, 🍎 Thurs. 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., 4109 Major Avenue, Madison.
Madison: Marquette St, 🍎 Thurs. 4:00 – 7:00 pm, 102 N. Marquette St., Madison
Madison: Vilas, 🍎 Thurs. 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., 311 Campbell Street, Madison
McFarland, Thurs. 4:30 – 7:00 p.m., 5315 Forest Lawn Circle, McFarland
Middleton, 🍎 Thurs. 4:00 – 8:00 p.m., 6617 Boulder Lane, Middleton
Oregon, Thurs. 3:15 – 7:00 p.m., near Ash Street and S. Perry Parkway, Oregon
Verona: Pub, Thurs. 3:00 – 8:00 p.m., 950 Kimball Lane, at Boulder Brewpub.
Verona: Epic, Thurs. 3:00 – 10:00 pm, 1979 Milky Way, Voyager Hall loading dock, employees only
Janesville, Friday delivery
Janesville: Fri. 3:00 – 6:45 p.m., at Basics Coop, 1711 Lodge Drive, Janesville
Milwaukee area, Friday delivery
We ended CSA deliveries to the greater Milwaukee area in 2020.
We encourage you to explore other CSA farms serving the Milwaukee area. For a list of local farms, visit the CSA page on the Urban Ecology website.
We continue winter produce deliveries to the Outpost Natural Foods Coops in Bay View, Mequon, Milwaukee, and Wauwatosa, so you can still get our carrots, cabbage and other crops in fall and winter.
What’s in the Boxes?
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Here are week-by-week lists from recent years. It’s a lot of information (!) but shows that we pack abundant, interesting boxes every year. Take a look!
View all our 2022 CSA boxes.
View all our 2021 CSA boxes.
View all our 2020 CSA boxes (COVID did not stop us!)
View all our 2019 CSA boxes (cool, wet spring & fall, nice summer).
View all our 2018 CSA boxes (wet year).
View all our 2017 CSA boxes (average year).
View all our 2016 CSA boxes.
View all our 2015 CSA boxes.
View all our 2014 CSA boxes.
View all our 2013 CSA boxes.
View all our 2012 CSA boxes (drought year).
View all our 2011 CSA boxes (very wet year).
We pack a variety of fresh, certified organic items in each weekly CSA box. Most will be vegetables that you know and use: broccoli, melons, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and many more. See our list of crops below. We provide variety within these crops. For example, we grow many types of fragrant sweet peppers: red, yellow, green, orange, purple, Italian. We will stretch your experience by mixing in unusual vegetables such sweet salad turnips and Yukina greens (a favorite leafy green in late fall). The fruits we grow are strawberries, muskmelons, and watermelons.
We craft our boxes with compatible mixes, paired with recipes for easy preparation. We strive to provide a member of the onion family each week (onions, garlic, leeks, scallions) because they are so useful. The number of items varies from 7 to 13 items per week. Spring boxes are the lightest, while summer and fall boxes are heavier and contain a wider variety of items. We pack your produce in a reuseable 3/4-bushel box.
Below are three sample boxes from previous seasons, to provide a sense of what our deliveries will be like.
May 19
- 1.25 lb. asparagus
- 1.5 lb. rhubarb
- 1.25 lb. spinach
- red leaf lettuce
- arugula
- radishes
- button mushrooms
- green garlic
August 20
- Sugar Baby watermelon
- 3 lb. tomatoes, mixed plum & slicing varieties
- 1 lb. zucchini & summer squash
- bell peppers in varied colors: red, orange & yellow
- red Italian frying peppers
- 1 lb. broccoli
- Swiss chard
- 2 Spanish onions
- cucumbers
- basil
November 2
- 2 lb sweet potatoes
- butternut squash
- 1 lb Brussels sprouts
- Romananesco cauliflower
- broccoli
- 1 large leek
- 2 lb carrots
- 1.5 lb parsnips
- Beauty Heart radish
- yellow onion
Crops We Grow
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Below is a list of the crops we grow and a projected harvest schedule. Each season is unique, so not all crops succeed each year.
Weekly Recipes
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Deb Shapiro of DebsLunch and Phoebe Moore provide us with delicious weekly recipes designed to suit a wide range of cooking styles. Members tell us the recipes are a terrific tool for enjoying their CSA produce. Check our weekly newsletter to see sample recipes.
Newsletters
Read our weekly newsletter for information about the week’s veggies, plus news and photos from the farm.
Farm Events
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Our farm is located just 35 minutes southeast of Madison. CSA members are invited to visit during our farm celebrations. Children especially enjoy the farm events and the excitement and drama of harvesting their own vegetables. Watch their faces as they pull a bright orange carrot out of the ground! Farm events are open to CSA members but not the general public. We charge for the strawberries and tomatoes that you take home, but not for the mulberries, pumpkins or fall gleanings.
- Strawberry U-Picks
Come enjoy ripe strawberries picked fresh from the plants. Weather permitting, we offer strawberry u-picks on two weekends in mid-to-late-June. - Tomato U-Picks
Come harvest plum tomatoes to take home for sauce or to preserve for winter. U-pick(s) will be held when the crop is ready in August or September. - Pumpkin U-Pick & Gleaning Party (member favorite!)
Choose your Halloween jack-o-lantern and explore the farm in early October. We offer several crops for members to glean for their own use. The gleanings vary from year to year, but have included pumpkins, carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, red peppers, watermelons, greens, herbs and sweet potatoes in previous years. All pumpkins and gleanings are free.
Extra Produce
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When abundant, we will offer sales of tomatoes, basil and kale for canning or freezing. If amounts are limited, we will give the weekly and every-other-week members priority in placing orders.
Vacation Policy
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We understand that members go on vacation during the CSA season. You have several options when on vacation:
- You can reschedule up to three boxes per season. Please give us one week advance notice. Details here.
- You can have a friend pick up the box for you. Please instruct him/her how to get the box and forward them a copy of your CSA Handbook.
- You can cancel your box. Please give us one week advance notice.
Payment Options
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- Pay in full, by check.
- Pay in full, by credit card. If you choose credit card payment, we appreciate if you contribute to the service costs during registration, to help cover credit card fees charged to the farm.
- Pay in installments, by credit card only. New this year, we are no longer taking post-dated installment check payments.
- Pay with SNAP or Quest, see below.
Options for Low-Income Households
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It is important to us that everyone to be able to afford our food.
- Low income households are eligible for subsidies through the Partner Shares program. Please contact the program directly for more information.
- We accept payment with food stamps or Quest or SNAP through the Partner Shares program. Contact Partner Shares for more details.
HMO Wellness Programs
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Madison-area HMO members may be eligible for a rebate or reward up to $200 for CSA enrollment. Contact your HMO or go to the FairShare website for links to the HMO websites. In the Milwaukee area, WEA Trust offers HMO rebates for some policy holders.
HMO payment guidelines:
- We send an email receipt after you register and pay for your CSA share. Submit the receipt to your HMO’s wellness program. Your HMO will send your reward directly to you.
- The HMOs will only reimburse you for checks that have already been deposited.
- Each household eligible for an HMO wellness reward should write their own check(s) directly to Tipi Produce so we can verify your payment with your HMO.
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