About Gateway Organic Farm

When you buy a subscription or a membership in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, you are supporting or subscribing to a farmer -- in this case to Pamela and Hank at Gateway Organic Farm.  You are supporting clean, locally produced food, and developing a relationship with your community and your land.

Please fill out the new member application for the 2011-2012 Season: 2011-2012 APPLICATION

Our family farm is a tiny 100' x 1388' strip of land in the heart of Pinellas County, Florida --the most densely populated county south of New York City. We are 3.19 acres of urban paradise!

Gateway Organic Farm is a former landscape nursery in transition to a series of wonderful herb and vegetable gardens. After years of neglect, the sandy soil has become fertile and robust with the addition of composted organic matter and now yields a bounty of beautiful produce each week at harvest.

When you become a member of our farm, you receive at least 6 to 8 different types of vegetables and herbs each week during the growing season. Our farm grows over 50+ varieties with a focus on unique heirloom vegetables. Every family is different, but your share will supplement your grocery store purchases, bringing up to the gourmet level, and provides enough food for a vegetarian couple or an average family of four. Our purpose is to provide the freshest, chemical-free produce harvested within hours of pick up! Our produce will be fresh, nutritious and taste like veggies should!

There will be, as farming goes, times of greater varietal choice in what you will be receiving than at other times. The vegetable selection in a weekly share is determined by what’s in-season and available for harvest on the farm. There is no choice, by the consumer, of what goes in the share. This is called ‘eating in season’. We want you to be pleasantly surprised each week when you receive good tasting, healthy and nutritious foods grown just for you. We will also include recipes to give you new ideas on how to prepare vegetables you know and those you’ve never tried!

Full Share members - We welcome you to come every week on Wednesday or Saturday. Again—let us know which day you prefer.

Half Share members - Beginning next week, 11/24 and 11/27, we will break into our A or B week schedule for half members (see chart below). The A/B week schedule allows us to harvest evenly throughout the season instead of all half members coming every two weeks. It is still very flexible and we will not be concerned if you need to make a change occasionally. Half-share members will be divided into Group A Week, serving A-L and Group B Week serving M-Z. Harvest will continue to June until the farmer is ready to plow the fields and plant cover crops.

One additional change this year: Please let us know if you will pick up on Wednesday or Saturday each week. We want to harvest for just the correct number of members each pick up to avoid anything going to waste as the garden matures. It has been so very dry that the garden is growing at a slow pace but things look good now that it has started to cool off in the evenings. So, let me know if you will prefer Wednesday or Saturday pick up and we will plan accordingly. Please be flexible as we perfect this system! As always, we will harvest right before your pick up time so everything will be as fresh as possible! Bring your own bag!