Community Supported Agriculture
Membership: For our long-term members we have a Sustaining Membership option. This allows you to maintain your share from one year to the next without the hassle of signing up again. Sustaining Members also have the option of Full Season memberships (Spring and Winter CSA shares). Sustaining Members may cancel their shares at end of the season. Winter and Spring shares are currently sold out but members will be notified when they become available in the future (as some do every year).
Where and What Day? Pick-up is held on Thursdays at the Farm from 2pm-7pm.
The farm is located at 1012 Snake Hill Rd, N Scituate.
When? Pick-ups will begin in early June and run until late November for a total of 25 weeks. You will be notified as to the exact dates as the spring comes on.
What’s available? A wide assortment of certified real organic vegetables are available (more than 40 crops and over 100 varieties). Egg produced on Big Train Farm are also available purchased in full and half shares (not certified organic, see below).
Flowers, Mushrooms and Tea shares provided by local friends are also available upon purchase of a vegetable share. Pick-Your-Own blueberries are available during the growing season. Honey is often available for sale.
How does it work? CSA pick-up is a Farmer’s Market set-up. Members “shop” at the pick-up, taking what they want from the stand. Some required weekly items and restrictions apply on a weekly basis.
What’s the Price? A full share is available for $1000 and is sufficient for 3-6 people. Half-shares are available for $500, adequate for 1-3 people. Three-Quarter Shares are also available for $750 and feed 2-5 people. Work-shares are also available. If you consider yourself low income, please contact us and we can set-up a payment plan at a reduced rate.
Not sure what size share is right for you? Start with a half-share and bump up once you get started.
How do I join? Sign up for the CSA
How do I pay? Send Checks for your vegetable share and egg share, made out to Big Train Farm, to 1012 Snake Hill Rd North Scituate RI 02857. Do not send payment for any other extra product shares. Checks for these items will be collected at the first pick-up.
Extra Options for On Farm Pick-Ups!
If coming to the farm every week is too much of a burden consider one of the following options.
Get in touch if you have any questions:
Option 1: Pick-Up Pod. Many of you have friends, family, and neighbors in the CSA. Form a Pod of 3-5 people and coordinate pick-ups every week amongst yourself. If you are interested in participating in a Pick-Up Pod but do not have friends or colleagues in the CSA let us know. Tell us generally where you live (East Side PVD, Edgewood, Mt. Hope, Barrington, etc) and we will do our best to link you up with a group. If you are able and willing to haul for people who cannot make it to the farm at all please let us know.
Option 2: Pick Up Every Other Week. Pick up on an alternating schedule and double up. For instance you could purchase a half share and pick-up a full share every other week.
What are the Extra Products?
EGGS (22 Weeks)- HALF SHARE (1/2 dozen) : $88 or FULL SHARE (dozen): $176. PAYMENT DUE: first CSA pick-up. CHECKS TO: Big Train Farm
Weekly Farm Fresh Eggs for 22 weeks. Our chickens are raised on GMO-free grain, grass, legumes, worms, invertebrates, and food scraps. They are an important component of our fertility system providing manure to our composting operation. We compost all our chicken manure and bedding on the farm. .
MUSHROOM (25 weeks) : $250. PAYMENT DUE: first CSA pick-up. CHECKS TO: RI Mushroom Company
Throughout the course of the CSA program, we will offer various combinations of Blue Oyster, Golden Oyster, Shiitake, Maitake, King Oyster & Pioppino Mushrooms
FLOWERS– FULL SHARE (18 weeks): $215. PAYMENT DUE: first CSA pick-up. CHECKS TO: Blue Skys Flower Farm
Runs from mid-June through the end of September. Medium mixed bouquets of all kinds of flowers including but not limited to: peony, sunflowers, statice, lisianthus, globe amaranth, lavender, salvia, zinnia, celosia, dahlia, marigold, strawflower, echinacea, gladioli, etc..
HERBAL TEA SHARE (6 months): Half Shares ($75) or Full Shares ($150). PAYMENT DUE: first CSA pickup. CHECKS TO: Sanctuary Herbs.
Half Share: 1- 1.0 oz package of aromatic dried herbal tea: (a different blend each month and a choice of loose leaf or 15 individual tea bags); and 1 pouch of dried spice (such as thyme, rosemary, oregano, sage, herbs de Providence, herbs di Federal Hill).
Full Share: all the above plus 1 (2 oz.) bottle of herbal tincture (such as holy basil/tulsi; stinging nettle; chamomile; oat tops; burdock root); and 1 potted perennial herb (such as lemon balm, peppermint, oregano, etc…).