Fresh Roots Veggie Box and Flower CSA (Community Supported Agruculture) programs are a fabulous way to get the freshest, most delicious, hyper-local produce while supporting the amazing work we’re doing at Fresh Roots!
Veggie Box Availability
Community Care CSA boxes
Available! – pick up Fridays at Collingwood Neighbourhood House
When you sign up, you will receive a Community Care Harvest Box share of fresh, locally grown vegetables, and a low-income family referred by Collingwood Neighbourhood House staff will receive the same share at a highly subsidized rate.
For $40 a week over 10 weeks (for a total of $400), you receive a full share each week. (This will be $25.00 worth of vegetables weekly, with the remaining cost going to subsidize the box of a low-income neighbour.)
Vancouver Weekly Veggie Boxes and Vancouver Flower CSA
Sold Out – consider purchasing Market Credits instead!
Coquitlam/Suwa’lkh Weekly Veggie Boxes
Sold Out – consider purchasing Market Credits instead!
About Veggie Boxes
Veggie What?
This is our version of a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. When you join a CSA, you enter into a direct partnership with a local farm. Members buy a share of the farm’s harvest at the beginning of the season to contribute to the costs of seeds, tools, and other inputs. As members, you will be rewarded with delicious, fresh, and hyper-local produce and a strong sense of community.
You will also be supporting our children and youth programs, which base their learning and empowerment activities on the schoolyard farms we steward providing a place for youth to connect with food. From planting a seed to cooking a meal, we catalyze learning that students carry forward to make informed food choices, become community leaders, and advocate for a more just and sustainable food system.
What comes in a weekly box?
For an average of $22.5-$25/box, you get a week’s worth of produce: greens, root vegetables, fruits (like tomatoes and squash!) and herbs. Your Veggie Box will change with the season, containing 5-7 items and providing you with an amazing range of vegetables grown with care using organic practices. This is a chance to eat in an attuned way with our BC seasonality, and to discover new foods and cooking traditions. Our newsletter will provide you with recipes and ideas on how to prepare your veggies, as well as stories about the farm and programs. Below you’ll find a few sample boxes to get an idea of what boxes might look like from week to week.
Convenient Pickup Location
For our Vancouver CSA, starting the first week of end of May until October, pick up your veggies every Wednesday at the Fresh Roots Farm at Van Tech Secondary School from 3-7 pm, where we will also be hosting a pop-up market for the local community to buy vegetables on one of the two Vancouver schoolyard farms that they were grown!
- Vancouver Technical Secondary School map
Questions? Call 778-764-0344 ext. 103 or for less urgent matters email: food@freshroots.ca
For more ways to support Fresh Roots, check out the CNH Community Care CSA programs to get a share of the schoolyard farm harvest and support your neighbours.
About Market Credits
You can support Fresh Roots by purchasing produce without the commitment of a full-season Veggie Box CSA. Support Fresh Roots farms and programming by paying upfront for Good Food Market Credits which provide flexibility for those who prefer market-style shopping for fresh, local vegetables when and where they like.
Here’s what our members are saying
I LOVE getting our weekly Fresh Roots Veggie Box! The veggies are grown just a few blocks from our house, and they are the freshest, most delicious produce you can imagine. Mmmmm! It’s fun to go pick up our veggies and see neighbours and friends, and sometimes buy a loaf of fresh bread, some eggs, or local berries.
Susan, CSA Veggie Box Member since 2014
To me, Fresh Roots is the definition of supporting local. I first learned about the CSA boxes and the farms when I went on a field trip with the high school I was working with at the time. We spent the day at David Thompson learning about farming and the SOYL program. I joined the CSA that day and have been a member ever since.