CSA FAQ

How do you sign up?

Farmerrussell@gmail.com is my email.

Please make all checks payable to Edible Old Dominion LLC

and mail to

Edible Old Dominion

2006 Farrand St.

Richmond Va. 23231

In this economy, or any other, cash talks. Though we are happy to hear from everyone who is interested, we start counting the members when the checks start showing up. One membership is paid in full as of 12.01.2009. The plan is to have a total of 40 members this year.

If I want office delivery do all members need to be whole share members?

No. It's the member count that we are looking for, the amount of bags we will be bringing. Those bags can be whole or half shares.

What is included in an average bag?

The goal is to have on average about 25 to 30 dollars worth of produce for each whole share bag per week. The produce is selected from what we will be bringing to market that week. Member shares are pulled first. Some of you may have seen us at markets this past season with only peppers, or a few other oddities on the table. That is because the production that week was only enough for the members. Our final delivery this past season was 1lb of Mixed Greens, 2 bundles of brocc raab, 2 bundles of kale, 3 bundles of swiss chard, and 3 bundles of radishes. Our Chickens only begin to lay towards the end of the season, so next years members would also be getting a half dozen eggs with that same bag. Half shares are literally half. Half share members receive eggs every other week.

Are you organic?

No. Organic is a government certification that takes three years to obtain and can cost several hundred, to several thousand dollars, to maintain. We do use organic methods. We never use synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, or pesticides. My daughter runs through the fields on the farm. I want to be able to keep it that way.

Do you grow only Heirloom vegetables?

I wish. We are huge fans of biodiversity and use heirlooms whenever possible. The split this year will probably be 50 /50. Losing half of a tomato plants production can be hard when you are growing a couple in your backyard, when you have 800 plants of that variety it can bring you to your muddy knees.