CSA

2024 CSA Info

Our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a 10 week program, starting as soon as we have a harvest, which will vary slightly every year based on the weather. With your membership you will be helping to support our farm by prepaying for your vegetables, which will help with our farm inputs when we need them in the beginning of the season. In return you will receive a basket of fresh, high quality vegetables every week for the 10 week period. For more information on our CSA Program CLICK HERE to open the application.

Birney’s Miracle Farm

2024 CSA Info

The CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a 10 week program, starting as soon as we have a harvest, which will vary slightly every year based on the weather. With your membership you will be helping to support our farm, by giving prepaying for your vegetables, which help us with the inputs for the farm when we need them in the beginning of the season. In return, you will receive a basket of fresh, high quality vegetables every week for the 10 week period. If the season runs longer than 10 weeks, you will have the option to continue buying the baskets at the end of the season on a weekly basis. Another advantage to your membership is if there is a shortage of a certain crop, you will get it before we put it at the stand for sale. One other important factor to consider is that you will be sharing in some of the risk with us. If there is a crop loss of a particular crop, you will receive a different item that will make up for what was lost. The other shared risk is that if there are devastating weather events, we won’t be able to offer a refund. The consensus among CSA participants is that the quality and convenience far outweighs the risk. We offer a small (peck) basket, which is roughly 10lbs for $20/week, and a large (1/2 bushel) box which is roughly 20lbs for $40/week. We feel the small basket would be enough to supply 1- 2 people for the week, and a large basket would supply a family of 4 for the week. We realize that some items, such as sweet corn and melons, due to their weight, would take up most of the box, but we will make sure that you are getting your money’s worth every week. The availability of certain items can’t be guaranteed from week to week, but if there is a shortage of one item, it will be made up for with something else. With our CSA we offer you the option to opt out of certain vegetables. When doing research on CSA’s a lot of people liked getting new vegetables that they had never tried before, but at the same time, if it was something they didn’t like, with other CSAs, they didn’t have the option to not receive it in their baskets. If there is a vegetable that you do not like, or have an allergy to, please let us know, and we will substitute it with something else. Along with being able to request specific items, if you want a larger quantity of one thing, say you want to can/freeze beans, we can fill your basket with only beans that week, you just have to give us a little notice to make sure we have the specific item on hand. Please refer to the list of what we will be growing in the 2024 season. If you would like to sign up for this year’s CSA, please fill out the form below. The first half of your payment will need to be made by March 15, 2024, and the second half by April 15, 2024. If you would like to sign up, but for some reason you can’t make the payments by the due dates, please contact us and we will work out a different payment plan. Checks can be made payable to:

Birney’s Miracle Farm Market

4257 Watkins Rd SW Pataskala, Oh 43062

Please print the application and the item selection list and fill them both out and mail them along with your check to the above address. We will send out an email to all the members updating you on the progress as the season approaches, and letting you know approximately when you should receive your first basket. During the main season, Pick up days will be Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at the farm. When Strawberries are in season (usually in June) we will contact you with their availability on a weekly basis. We will also be at the Pataskala Farmers Markets on most Fridays during their market season, and baskets can be picked up there also. If you will be out of town one week, or wish to skip a week, please let us know and we will add a week onto the end of the season for you, or, if you would like, you can have a family member or friend pick up your basket that week. Thank you again for your interest in our CSA. We hope that you will sign up and partner with us in making 2024 a great season! If you have any questions please feel free to message us, or call 740-408-7750 and ask for Caren.

Eric and Caren Conkey

Birney’s Miracle Farm Market

Birney’s Miracle Farm 2024 CSA

 

Name_____________________________________________________________________________________

Phone number____________________________________________________________________________

Email_____________________________________________________________________________________

Box Size (please indicate how many boxes you want per week)

______ Small (1-2 people) $200 for 10 weeks

______ Large (3-4 people) $400 for 10 weeks

Do you have any food allergies you would like us to know about?_____________________________________

Please make checks payable to: Birney’s Miracle Farm

Please mail this form, your first half payment, along with your completed vegetable list by March 15, to:

4257 Watkins Rd SW

Pataskala, Oh 43062

Thank you!

Caren and Eric Conkey

This is a list of what we will be growing this year. Because the list is so long, please only mark the items that you DO NOT wish to receive.

Early crops (ready in June and early July)

  • Strawberries
  • Sugar Snap Peas
  • Mustard greens
  • Turnips (roots and greens)
  • Beets (roots and greens)
  • Kale
  • Collard greens
  • Bok Choy

Main season crops (ready Mid/late July and last until frost)

Hot/Mild Peppers

  • Super Hot: Scorpion, Ghost, 7-Pot
  • Orange Habanero
  • Thai Chili
  • Cayenne
  • Hot Wax Banana
  • Jalapeno
  • Serrano
  • Ancho
  • Anaheim

Sweet Peppers

  • Green Bell
  • Red Bell (Only available late in season.)
  • Yellow Bell (Only available late in season.)
  • Small Sweet “Snack” peppers
  • Sweet Banana
  • No Heat Jalapeno

Tomatoes

  • Red tomatoes
  • Yellow tomatoes
  • Sauce and paste varieties
  • “Cocktail” tomatoes
  • Red Cherry Tomatoes
  • Yellow Cherry Tomatoes
  • Red Grape Tomatoes
  • Green Tomatoes

Eggplant

  • Large oval shaped
  • Long Japanese

Cabbage

  • Round Cabbage
  • Flat Head Cabbage
  • Red Cabbage

Melons

  • Red Watermelon
  • Yellow Watermelon
  • Muskmelon

Squash

  • Zucchini Squash
  • Middle Eastern (light green) zucchini
  • Yellow Squash

Cucumbers

  • Slicing Cucumbers
  • English Cucumbers
  • Pickling Cucumbers

Sweet corn (Non GMO and Pesticide Free)

  • Yellow Varieties
  • Bi-Color Varieties *we grow Silver King, a white variety, but because it is planted by the yellow, it always turns into a bi-color.

Beans

  • Blue Lake Bush Bean
  • Roma Flat Italian Bean
  • Half Runner String Bean

Misc.

  • Okra

Fall Crops

  • Late Bi-Color corn (GMO)
  • Acorn Squash
  • Butternut Squash
  • Buttercup Squash
  • Spaghetti Squash
  • Delicata (Sweet Potato) Squash
  • Pie Pumpkins
  • Corn Stalk Bundles
  • Decorative Pumpkins