Celebrate Community Supported Agriculture with Full Circle Farm in Three Rivers

Full Circle Farm recently joined other CSA farmers across the country to celebrate CSA Week, a national event that took place from February 20 through February 26, in an effort to promote CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). CSA is a farm membership system that allows consumers to sign up to receive a season’s worth of a farm’s products (veggies, eggs, meat, flowers, grain, etc.) over a number of weeks. Along with getting to enjoy fresh, delicious, and local food, being a CSA member is an excellent way to support and get to know your local farmers. 

When you sign up to become a CSA member, your financial support helps farmers like those at Full Circle Farm prepare for the growing season. You’ll enjoy high-quality fresh produce of all types, while taking comfort in knowing where and how your food was grown. Don’t wait to sign up, as Full Circle has limited spots available. There has never been a better time to connect with fresh local food while helping to make local food systems and communities more resilient.

This year Full Circle Farm’s CSA is coordinated with the local school calendar to better suit the changing needs of families. The farm’s Spring CSA runs from April 28 to June 2, six weeks of delicious vegetables for just $23/week. The Summer CSA runs from June 16 to September 1, 12 weeks of the best summer produce from tomatoes to lettuce, cost is $26/week. One of the best parts of Full Circle Farm’s CSA is that it is completely customizable, if you want, each week you can go online and choose exactly the produce you want from the field that week. 

Signing up for Full Circle Farm’s CSA is quick and easy, simply go to their website and click on the corresponding CSA links to get signed up for the spring and/or summer season. You can also browse previous CSA newsletters (which are sent out every week during the season) and learn more about Full Circle’s growing practices and their CSA.

About Full Circle Farm

Full Circle Farm is a small but still growing farm. The farm’s total property is almost 13 acres, most of which is the core of an old dairy farm (lots of concrete and barns) and pasture fields. The farm’s market garden is currently just under 1 acre. In that acre are annual vegetable beds, young fruit trees, berry fruits, and pollinator plantings.

Full Circle practices no tillage farming. This means they do not turn their soil at any point in their farming system. Tillage of the soil is incredibly destructive of the soil structure and soil life, and leads to long term loss of fertility. Their farmers use practices such as intensive spacing, use of mulch to keep the soil covered as much as possible, cover crops to keep living roots in the soil, occultation to eliminate weed seeds, multi-cropping and inter-planting to increase diversity, and promoting a healthy ecosystem to discourage pests and prevent diseases.