08/25/2026
GROWING NOW 🌱
These photos tell the story of what we are building.
The first photo is a look at the kind of harvest our garden can produce: tomatoes, cucumbers, tomatillos, eggplant, and more. The photos that follow show the work behind it—covered growing areas, raised beds, irrigation, nursery starts, young plants, current crops, and examples of last season’s harvests.
We have built and invested in real production capacity because we believe a garden program should start with the ability to grow the food.
The garden is still being expanded and improved, but it is real, it is growing, and it gives us a solid foundation to build a more dependable way for our community to access what we harvest.
One of our biggest goals is simple: grow really good food, take care of the land and the people doing the work, and make sure the value of this food reflects the care, resources, and skill it takes to produce it well.
We are working toward pricing that is fair to the people who grow the food, reflects the care and resources required to produce it well, and still delivers real value to the people who bring it home.
We received a lot of positive feedback last season—especially about the quality of the produce. We are grateful for that, because growing food people are genuinely excited to take home is the whole point.
We also heard one very legitimate frustration: popular items sold out quickly. People would come by hoping to find something, only to discover it was already gone. Because truly fresh, delicate produce has a shorter freshness window in the heat, we know access and timing matter.
That is why we are considering Flexible CSA Credit, built around the plants we have growing now and the produce we expect to harvest soon. The goal is to give members a better opportunity to get garden produce closer to harvest, with more consistency and less uncertainty around whether their favorites will still be available when they arrive.
By growing directly for our community, more of the food dollar can go back into the garden itself: seed and plants, healthy soil, irrigation, careful harvests, skilled people doing the work full-time, and the systems needed to keep improving production.
Before we finalize the next stage of the garden and decide how to structure Flexible CSA Credit, we would really like your input:
• What are the top three garden items you would most like us to grow or grow more of?
• Would you rather have Flexible CSA Credit to choose from what is available, a set garden box, or the option of either?
• What would make it easier for you to get fresh garden produce regularly: harvest updates, a reserved pickup window, a set pickup day, flexible credit, or something else?
Your answers will help us decide what to plant, how to structure access, and what this next stage should look like. We are building it around real plants, real harvests, and what would genuinely work for the people who want to eat from this garden.