Support local food, join Real Food Farm’s CSA!

Sign up here for the Civic Works Real Food Farm CSA

What is a CSA?

Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is a regular delivery of produce grown by your local farmer. Farmers count on CSAs to provide dependable funding during the growing season (they’re buying compost, seeds, soil amendments, greenhouse equipment, landscape fabric, etc.). CSAs are also a way to keep customers engaged throughout the growing season. As for customers, CSAs are a way to: 1. Meet the people that grow their food, 2. Learn about local growing practices, 3. Support local business and local food, 4. Support sustainable food, 5. Learn about foods they haven’t tried before, 6. Get the freshest foods they could find in their neighborhood.

How is the Real Food Farm CSA special?

Civic Works Real Food Farm trains people in farming, food delivery, truck driving, food safety, landscaping, and customer service while providing wrap-around services to its trainees. We also provide an economically sustainable model for ourselves and our partner farms in Baltimore. This way, we can all thrive, provide opportunities for our city, and care for beautiful places for our citizens. Oh, and we have a rescue farm cat that protects our food and greets customers 🙂

Which farms and businesses contribute to the Real Food Farm CSA?

The Real Food Farm CSA features other farmers in Baltimore City that use sustainable practices, are family owned, and / or grow food with a mission. These entrepreneurs all have a vision of making tasty, local food accessible for all. Farms and businesses featured include:

The Plantation of Park Heights

Strength to Love 2

The Common Market

Lancaster Farm Fresh

Black Yield Institute Cherry Hill Urban Garden

A Friendly Bread

Thread Coffee

How does delivery and pick up work?

We deliver on Thursdays for Thursday afternoon/evening pick up at the following locations:

Clifton Park – Real Food Farm

Clifton Park – Civic Works Clifton Mansion

Waverly – Weinberg YMCA