2025 CSA VEGETABLES SHARES

OVERVIEW

Join the Mavourneen CSA program and become members of our farm.  In exchange, we will provide you with a weekly or biweekly box of vegetables through the growing season.  Simple and powerful!  

This is not like shopping at the grocery store.  Your investment and commitment helps to grow the local food shed, create a more life serving economy, build relationships, protect agricultural land, and provide healthy food to the Bloomington community.

If these values appeal to you and you are looking for beautiful, high quality, certified organic vegetables, please join us today!  Sign up easily through our Grownby storefront or read below for more details.

SCHEDULE

Our 2025 CSA program includes three sessions, running from May 15 through December 11, with options for weekly or biweekly pickup.

  • Full Season | 5/15-12/11 | Weekly or Biweekly

  • Spring Session | 5/15-7/17 | Weekly or Biweekly

  • Summer Session | 7/24-9/25 | Weekly or Biweekly

  • Fall Session | 10/2-12/11 | Weekly or Biweekly

Going on vacation?

Scheduling vacation changes is easy, through our Grownby storefront.  Simply log-in at least 48 hours ahead of time, enter your vacation dates, and our harvest schedules will be automatically adjusted.  There are four options to make up your missed share(s).

  • Pick up a double share before or after your trip on a regularly scheduled pick up day.  

  • Biweekly share members can also pick up a share on a day outside their regular schedule. 

  • Members can also select to receive a store credit towards your next CSA purchase from us in 2026. 

  • Gift a weekly share to a friend.

Note that there are a limited number of vacation days allowed for each session.  

  • Full Season Weekly Shares: 6 days

  • Full Season Biweekly Shares: 3 days

  • Spring, Summer or Fall Weekly Shares: 2 day

  • Spring, Summer, or Fall Biweekly Shares: 1 day

Missed your pick-up?

If you ever miss the Thursday evening pick up time, don’t worry!  There are several options to still get your food.

  • Farm Walk-in Cooler. Default will be that we pack your share and leave it in our walk-in cooler at the farm for you to pick up at your convenience, anytime within 7 days. 

  • Bloomington Farm Stop.  Folks who pick up in town can request in advance to have their share packed for pick up from the Bloomington Farm Stop at their convenience, anytime within 7 days.  This option is limited to twice per session (6 times per year for full season members). 

PICK-UP DAYS & LOCATIONS

  • Bloomington Farm Stop Pick Up at 902 West Kirkwood Avenue 

    • Thursdays from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm.  This is a buffet style distribution with staff on site.

  • Mavourneen Farm Pick Up at 8652 South Rockport Road

    • Thursdays from 4:30-6:30 pm, or anytime after this, at your convenience, within 7 days. This is a self-serve, packed share style distribution, with no staff on site.

COST & PAYMENT OPTIONS

Full Season Weekly Shares | 30 Weeks | $1200

Full Season Biweekly Shares | 15 Weeks | $600

Spring, Summer, Fall Weekly Shares | 10 Weeks | $425

Spring, Summer, Fall Biweekly Shares | 5 Weeks | $212.50

Low-Income Shares | 5 Weeks or 10 Weeks | $150-300

SNAP Shares (EBT payment only) | 1-30 Weeks | $30/week

Pay in full

Full payment up front is our preferred option, to help us cover the cost of getting the farm season started.  We accept cash, checks, and credit cards.  Register online through our Grownby storefront then select your payment method. 

For offline payments, checks can be made out to Mavourneen LLC and mailed to 8652 South Rockport Road, Bloomington, IN 47403.  Cash payments can be brought to our farmers’ market booth April-May.

If you prefer to pay with a credit card, please consider the option to cover the cost of card processing fees– there should be a little box to select at check out.  This helps us to offset the extra expense of offering convenient online payment.

Pay in Monthly Installments

Members must pay online to utilize this option.  A non-refundable deposit is due at sign-up for most options. The remaining cost of the share is then spread out across monthly payments that are automatically processed each month during the share session.

  • Full Season Share, Weekly: $400 deposit, then auto-pay $100 monthly May-December

  • Full Season Share, Biweekly: $200 deposit, then auto-pay $50 monthly May-December

  • Seasonal Share, Weekly: $100 deposit, then auto-pay $108.34 monthly for three months

  • Seasonal Share, Biweekly: $50 deposit, then auto-pay $54.17 monthly for three months

  • Low-income Share: NO deposit required, auto-pay in full, monthly, or weekly installments

Pay with SNAP/EBT

We have been working with the USDA & Marketlink for almost a year to get our online store setup for automatic EBT processing.  Unfortunately, bureaucracy is slow and this system is not yet set up but we do have a work around in the meantime.  SNAP users can order weekly shares from us through our online store, selecting as many or as few dates as they would like, and then bring their EBT cards to pick up each week to run their card in person.  If you have questions about this process or would like to be notified when our online EBT payment processing is set up, please send us an email. 

WHAT’S IN A SHARE

We strive to produce extremely high quality, beautiful, nutrient dense food.  Each week share members will receive 7-10 produce items.  Since our vegetables are harvested and distributed at peak freshness, most items should have a shelf life of 7-14 days or more, if kept according to ideal storage directions.

Weekly shares are best for medium sized households that cook regularly and eat a vegetable forward diet.

Biweekly shares are best for smaller households and individuals who want less vegetables.  This share contains the same amount of produce as weekly shares but pickups occur every other week.  

Our goal is to include a well rounded mix of the following categories each week, as they are seasonally available, for a variety of flavors and meal options:

  • Leafy Greens: arugula, asian greens, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, collard greens, escarole, frisée, kale, lettuce, radicchio, salad mix, spinach

  • Herbs: basil, cilantro, celery, dill, fennel, ginger, oregano, parsley, thyme, sage

  • Alliums: garlic, leeks, onions, scallions

  • Summer Fruit: cucumbers, eggplant, sweet & hot peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, watermelon

  • Legumes: beans, peas

  • Roots, Tubers & More: beets, carrots, potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, turnips, winter squash

While we grow over 40 different crops, and many different varieties within this, availability will vary across the seasons.  Spring shares will be heavy on tender greens, like kale and lettuce, and may have fewer items at the start and more variety later on.  Summer shares will include a lot of fruiting crops like cucumber, eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes.  Fall will have the most abundance, with the return of greens and the arrival of storage crops like potatoes and winter squash.  

Note that there may be crop losses throughout the year that are beyond our control, so we do not guarantee the availability of every item planned for production.  CSA members agree to share in the risks inherent to farming.

WHAT COMES WITH MEMBERSHIP

In addition to fresh food weekly, CSA members will also:

  • Become members of a community that directly supports young farmers and ecological land stewardship in Monroe County.  We have been growing vegetables for more than 10 years here in Bloomington and have been deeply involved in building a vibrant, life serving local agricultural system that is sustainable for the land and the people of this region.

  • Have a direct connection to the people who grow their food. This relationship provides transparency in a food system that is increasingly difficult to navigate.  Our farm team will greet you at distribution each week and happily answer any questions you have about our production practices or how to use a particular ingredient.

  • Receive weekly newsletters with a harvest list, recipes, cooking tips, photos & stories from the farm, and more.

  • Get invites to on-farm tours and events.  Dates TBD for the 2025 season.

  • Receive special access to sales and bonus crops.

SIGN UP HERE

Ready to join?  Visit our Grownby storefront to select your share type, enter your contact information, and select your payment method.  

About Grownby

This platform was developed for farmers by farmers as part of the Farm Generations Cooperative, which we became members of in 2024.  This group is empowering local farmers, promoting transparency in the food supply chain, and leveraging modern technology and tradition to build a more just and sustainable future for food and the farmers who make it possible.

Grownby helps us to streamline member registration, scheduling, and communication.  It also enables us to offer a variety of payment & pick up options.  For more information visit: https://www.farmgenerations.coop/about