LAST UPDATED JUNE 4 2010

Welcome to 2010’s produce subscription season!

We’re preparing for our 21th great season of weekly produce deliveries to our customers who have enrolled for the summer. As a subscriber, you will receive a full array of vegetables grown here on the farm delivered to a central location each week, starting in mid-June and ending in late September.

What is Community Supported Agriculture?

Community Supported Agriculture is an answer to what is a worldwide concern: the production and distribution of high quality, carefully produced food. In joining our CSA program you are supporting your food producers directly and avoiding the middle people (i.e. the distributor and the retailer).

You are purchasing sustainably and locally grown produce, thereby avoiding the high environmental and health costs and questionable merits of agricultural chemicals, genetic modification, and the fossil fuels and other resources necessary for growing it and shipping it long distances. In exchange, you will receive high quality, toxin free, nutrient rich, flavorful produce on a weekly basis, freshly harvested the same day it’s delivered.

Season-long weekly produce deliveries:
A subscription will provide you with an abundance of produce for a 2-4 member household. Count on enough produce to supply your vegetable needs all week long.

The contents of each week’s delivery will vary according to which vegetables are ripe for the picking. Every delivery will include a good supply of salad ingredients. As the season progresses an increasing assortment of vegetables is included. Expect the short- season varieties like spinach, Market Express turnips, and radishes early on, and the longer-season varieties like cabbage and carrots later in the summer.

Look forward to new and unusual vegetables such as kohlrabi, chioggia beets, leeks, Yellow Finn, purple and other varietal potatoes, Easter Egg radishes and savoy cabbage, along with the old standards like carrots, Swiss chard, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, turnips, onions, celery, spinach, zucchini, etc., fresh herb bouquets (including chives, marjoram, parsley, oregano, sage, basil), salad greens (including arugula, mizuna, and an assortment of lettuces and mustards), and even a share of the apple harvest!

Also included with every delivery is a newsletter identifying its contents and recipes to give you ideas for preparing the vegetables provided that week, especially the more unusual ones.

The specifics:

Full for 2010!
Next enrollment period starts
April 15, 2011


Please email info@arcticorganics.com or call (907) 746-1087 to give us your mailing address, and we will mail you the enrollment form. Enrollments are done by regular mail. New subscribers will be taken on a first come basis.

For a visual reference for our more unusual greens, please see the Greens Gallery, a set of watercolor illustrations which will help you to identify them.

Produce pick-up schedule:
   - Downtown Anchorage on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 6:00pm
   - South Anchorage on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:00pm
  - Eagle River on Tuesdays after 5:00pm
  - At the farm on Tuesdays after 4:00pm

We will notify you of your specific location when we confirm receipt of your deposit.