Become a Member

Please PAY WITH PAYPAL

or

download & fill-out this pdf form and return with your payment

2010-11 CSA Membership Subscription:  

Full payment upon enrollment is customary.
Please know we will make every effort to work with you to arrange a payment schedule that works for your family. We will extend to you a monthly payment plan to be paid in full by NOV 1. Please let us know if you want to take advantage of this option and we will hold membership for you.

You have the option of paying your membership fee with “PAYPAL”. Otherwise, you may pay with check or cash: please download the pdf file, complete, and return it with your payment.

Our mailing address is:
Gateway Organic Farm
6000 150th Ave N
Clearwater, Fl 33760

You are welcome to come to the farm to make payment.

Full Share cost is $900 for the subscription (Nov – May).
Full share members come to the farm EVERY week for pick up.
Fee is to be included with this application unless other payments have been approved in advance.

Half Share cost is $500 (Nov – May).
Half share members come to the farm every OTHER week.
There is no difference in the amount of produce, just the number of times you visit the farm.
Half share members will be scheduled to come on alternative weeks if necessary.
Fee is to be included with this application unless other payments have been approved in advance.

We appreciate your support and look forward to a bountiful harvest!

CSA Member Responsibilities
•As a CSA member, you share in the bounty as well as the risks that accompany farming. CSA membership allows you to forge a connection with your food, the farm where it is produced, and the people who grow the crops. As such, Gateway Organic Farm CSA membership is a season long commitment. If you can’t finish out the season as members, for whatever reason, you are welcome to reassign your share to another household, but we don’t issue refunds for shares.
•Try new things! Be a good example to your children and eat your greens, take pleasure in the familiar as well as the unfamiliar. Challenge your culinary skills with new recipes, new combinations, and new ingredients.
•It is your responsibility to know when your share will be available to pick it up during our farm’s open hours ( Wed –3-6 or Sat 12-4.) The farm will not issue credit for unclaimed or forgotten shares. If you miss a pick up – your share will be donated to the local High Point community center.
•If you are unable to pick up your share on delivery day, make alternate arrangements for your produce ahead of time. You can ask someone else to pick up your share for you, you can ask the farm not to harvest for you that week

Member Agreement
By signing below I understand that I am committing to 2010 –11 CSA Member Subscription described above, which allows me to purchase a share of the harvest of IN-SEASON produce. As a member I agree to share in the bounty and the risks of farming with the farmers and other CSA
members. I understand that each week's produce will be different and based upon seasonal availability, insects, weather, and other acts of God. My payment fees help cover the seasonal costs of labor, fertilizer, seed, equipment, etc. to develop the CSA farm and that NO refunds are
available, however, I can transfer my subscription to another party or family member.

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Our Shares -  You will 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!

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a way for the public to buy locally grown food, create a relationship with a farm, and help to keep small farms in their community. Members make a financial commitment to the farm by buying shares, which provide the farm with the funds needed to grow and harvest the crops. The shareholders share the bounty with the farmer-when the harvest is plentiful the shares are large. However, just as when you buy stock in any company, CSA shareholders also take risks. If a natural disaster (such as hurricane or other weather-related condition or a major pest problem) destroys a crop, the shareholders bear the burden along with the farmer.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is your direct connection to a farmer.  In support of clean locally produced food we develop a relationship with our community and our land.  We create a unique opportunity for families to receive a weekly share of seasonal produce harvested fresh from our farm.  We share a commitment with our members and hope for a bountiful harvest worth celebrating.  Our CSA is for those committed members who pre-pay for a weekly supply of produce.  This helps cover our cost for seed, organic fertilizers, equipment, labor, etc.  We plan and work the farm to provide the members with an equal share of seasonal produce.  The share of produce is available for pick-up every week during the growing season, Nov – May.

By becoming a member in our farm, you will share in the risk of farming. If we cannot provide food for our member share due to things beyond our control such as weather related events like an early freeze, hail storms or floods - this is when the risk is shared and where the word "community' comes into play in Community Supported Agriculture. You can trust that at all times we will do everything in our power to make sure you receive your produce share.