What Does This All Mean? Our intention every CSA season is to give you more than what you pay for (aka a return on investment). You committed to help us through the 2020 growing season(s) and so we committed to prioritizing your shares (within our business plan) and bringing you as much bounty as we could grow and could afford.
Below is a breakdown of how the 2020 Summer/Fall CSA season came to pass. The dollar value per week numbers are for full shares. A half share value is half and a three-quarter value is three-quarters.
(i.e: Week X = $30… full share for week x was $30, $15 for half-share, and $22.50 for three-quarter.)
You paid for 26 Weeks of Produce: Full: $29.80/week Half :$15.38/week Three-Quarter:$23.07/week
You received : Full $32.59/week Half : $16.39/week Three-Quarter: $24.44/week
Full Share received a $72.04 return (9.3% return on investment), roughly two free weeks of produce
Half-Share received a $23.52 return (8.8% return on investment), roughly one and a half free weeks of produce.
Three-Quarter Share received a $35.28 return (8.8% return of investment), roughly one and a half free weeks of produce.
(Half Shares and Three Quarter Shares are 3.2% more expensive than a Full Share which is why the numbers don’t break down by clean percentages… i.e $775 for a full share is less than double $400 for a half-share).
Week 1: $36.98
Week 2: $33.23
Week 3: $29.98
Week 4: $31.40
Week 5: $36.73
Week 6: $32.08
Week 7: $37.27
Week 8: $30.90
Week 9: $31.71
Week 10: $34.35
Week 11: $33.46
Week 12: $48.25
Week 13: $32.46
Week 14: $29.67
Week 15: $35.36
Week 16: $33.17
Week 17: $32.81
Week 18: $34.28
Week 19: $34.51
Week 20: $34.71
Week 21: $36.00
Week 22: $29.72
Week 23: $28.97
Week 24: $33.32
Week 25: $35.72
Week 26: canceled
Total Value of 2020 Full Share: $847.04
Return on Investment of $775 per Full Share: $72.04 (9.3%)
Return to Entire 2020 CSA Summer/Fall Season : approximately $8,000