CSA -- About The Project

A picture from this year's potluck.

The Community-Supported Agriculture Project started with 100 members in 1996, and now have over 500 member families from Genesee, Erie, Niagara, Orleans, Monroe, Ontario, Livingston, and Wyoming counties.

Welcome to our 2008 season! This will be our 13th year of providing organic vegetables through our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. We would like to thank each of you for helping to make this progam a continued success. Your participation and enthusiasm is greatly appreciated.

It is important to remember the meaning of "Community Supported Agriculture" as it relates to the mission of our program here at Porter Farms. CSA members make a commitment to support the farm throughout the season, and assume the costs, risks, and bounty of growing food along with the farmers. Members help pay for seeds, compost, irrigation supplies, equipment maintenance, fuel, labor, etc. In return, the farm provides, to the best of its ability, fresh, healthy, organically grown produce throughout the growing season.

CSA keeps local famers connected with local consumers. Remember, food in the U.S. travels an average of 1,300 miles to get to your dinner table! Your membership in our CSA represents over twenty weeks of fresh, local produce that is a viable alternative to this "long distance" relationship most of us have with our food.

Some of the Porter family: