10/29/2026
Celebrating 5 Years of Subscription Harvest Shares! 🌾🥦
Reflecting on five years of running our hybrid CSA boxes (also known as harvest shares or subscription boxes), I am filled with contentment.
There is peace of mind in knowing that every seed we plant and every crop we nurture already has a home.
Unlike the gamble of traditional farming sales, subscription shares give us certainty.
Yes, tedious planning starting with what we would be harvesting week over week with variety throughout the season that can go into each member’s box, doing backend website work of updating produce going to be harvested for upcoming week for members to select, curating and distributing the boxes, all takes twice or trice the effort.
Kept continuing it allows me to grow fresh, pure, local food directly for community members who truly value it.
Finding the Right Balance
Every year brings new lessons in sustainability—not just for the farm, but for the farmer:
Last year: We ran weekly shares from April through December. It took significant human resources and non-stop hustle to meet our goals.
This year: I shifted to bi-weekly shares from May through October, running operations completely solo. This simplified rhythm made the process vastly more enjoyable and sustainable.
Markets vs. Shares
Farmers markets can be forgiving—if you don't have time to harvest something on a given day, you simply pivot. But the hard part comes when you spend hours harvesting, packing, and setting up, only to have rain, cold weather, or low foot traffic dampen the market. It can be tough on the spirit for a moment.
Despite scaling down the subscription frequency to manage operations on my own this year, we achieved incredible reach:
✨ Attended 5 different farmers markets
✨ Participated in 2 major community festivals
✨ Supplied seasonal produce to a local store
✨ Partnered with an exciting new chef
Thank you to everyone who has supported our harvest shares over the last 5 years. Knowing our produce is making it directly to your tables makes every bit of hard work worth it. 🥂🌱
Thank you for partner farms especially Sunnyside farm, blessed to collaborate
Thanks to Swamy for Loudoun deliveries
