2026 CSA Sign-ups Now Open!

Dear friends,

We’re delighted to announce that sign-ups for our 2026 CSA program are now open to returning members.

2026 is shaping up to a vibrant year. A new pick-up day (Friday) for community picnic and playground hangs; giant first-year strawberries; and as always new flowers and crop varieties to delight and inspire.

We hope you’ll let West County Community Farm be a weekly source of nourishment, connection, and beauty in the year ahead.

We will open sign-ups to our waitlist on February 28th, so please sign-up in the next couple weeks to guarantee your spot. And if you have friends or family who you’d like to enjoy the harvest season with, please encourage them to sign-up for the waitlist on our website here.

See you in the fields!
David & Kayta

2026 CSA Sign-ups Open this Saturday, February 14th!

Dear 2025 CSA members!

We hope this finds you all well and filled up with vitamin-D from this January we just had.

Here on the farm, the young strawberry plants in our big new strawberry patch are feeling the vitamins for sure and pushing their first sets beautiful leaves, singing to us of sweet summer farm days to come.

Read on below for our 2026 sign-up opening date and more updates!

2026 SIGN-UPS OPEN FEBRUARY 14th

Sign-ups for our 2026 CSA Program will open on February 14th. Returning member will get first dibs!

You’ll receive an email invitation the morning of February 14th. Members from 2025 will have 2-weeks to sign up before we open it up to the waitlist. Please sign-up within that period to ensure your spot.

And encourage friends or family who you’d like to enjoy the season with to sign-up for the waitlist on our website here.

This year’s 26-week CSA program will run from Friday, June 12th — Tuesday, December 15th.

Friday = NEW PICK-UP DAY!

Celebrate the end of the workweek with an evening hang-out on the farm.

This coming year, we will be adding Fridays, from 1:00 pm — 6:00 pm as a regular CSA pick-up day in addition to our usual Tuesday and Saturday harvest pickups.

As usual, members can enjoy the farm, u-pick gardens, playground and picnic areas 7 days-a-week, sunrise-to-sunset.

WINTER FARMSTAND

Members can now enjoy our bountiful stockpile of storage crops via our self-serve farm stand in the cooler.

Feel free to come by anytime that it’s light out to purchase hardy staples (and a few greens!). Currently, the farm stand is stocked with:

• Carrots

• Yellow Onions

• Jelly, Harvest Moon & Desiree Potatoes

• Red & Green Cabbage

• Dino Kale (while it lasts!)

• Celery Root

• Dutch Butter Popcorn

• Floriani Red Flint Cornmeal

• Assorted Winter Squash

WINTER UPDATE

In the early days of WCCF, January was a relatively slow month. Not anymore! This farm train seldom stops and January was as full as can be with planning for a bounteous season ahead and repairing and improving tools and infrastructure for ultimate smoothness during the planting and harvest crunch.

January tasks this year have included:

• Brooding over and tending to our precious new strawberry and garlic plants

• Completing our 2025 year review and budgeting for 2026

• Starting work on a major overhaul of wash-pack tables and systems

• Lots of paper work for our CCOF organic cert application

• Replacing a leaky old 500 ft section of mainline irrigation pipe

• Tractor repairs and tractor spa-days

• …. and hopefully some farmer spa-days and sleep-ins thrown in there

Winter is a very projecty time of year for us, but at about this time of year — when the acacia and the wild mustards start blooming, “yellow season” as our friend Kate calls it — we start to get a little antsy for the field.

It is still a little fuzzy, but we can start to make out the season ahead emerging from the winter mist — the potatoes flowering over there in Centerfield; the Jack-O-Lanterns in Creekfield; cherry tomatoes and hot peppers in the loamy soil of Highgarden South; lazy Friday evenings chomping strawberries with friends under the oaks.

Surely we’ll have a few more good rainy, fireside, cups-of-tea type days before then, but bright days of summer on the farm are right around the corner.

Can’t wait to see you in the fields in 2026,
David & Kayta

Farm Stand & Winter Update

Hello dear members!

We hope this finds you enjoying the gentle returning of the light.

We are hard at work laying the groundwork for next season’s bounty. This time of year, that takes the form of spreadsheets, seed orders, and infrastructure projects.

We’re writing with a few updates.

CSA SIGN-UPS OPENING MID-FEBRUARY

First, we plan on opening CSA sign-ups in mid-February. We’ll send you an email invitation to sign up, and members from 2025 will have 2 weeks to sign up before we open any remaining shares up to the waitlist. Keep an eye out for an email and make sure that you’ve marked this email address as important to ensure it reaches you. Please encourage friends or family who you’d like to enjoy the season with to sign-up for the waitlist on our website.

FARM STAND!

Secondly, we had an abundant year in our storage crops fields, and we still have enough of a stockpile that we’ve set up a self-serve farm stand in the cooler.

Starting today, feel free to come by anytime that it’s light out to purchase hardy staples (and a few greens!). You can access the cooler by going into the barn and around the corner behind where the tables are during CSA pickups. You’ll have the option to pay by cash or Venmo, and there’s a discount for buying in bulk (5 lb or more). Currently, the farm stand is stocked with:

• Carrots

• Yellow Onions

• Jelly, Harvest Moon & Desiree Potatoes

• Red & Green Cabbage

• Dino Kale (while it lasts!)

• Celery Root

• Dutch Butter Popcorn

• Floriani Red Flint Cornmeal

• Assorted Winter Squash

We hope you’ll come stock up your larders and visit the land as it changes from lake to field and back again.

See you in the fields,
David & Kayta