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Community Supported Agriculture

Locally Grown Organic Produce in Time for Shabbat!

Kavana is proud to offer a Jewish Community-Supported Agriculture ("CSA") program.  We are one of many pioneering Jewish CSAs affiliated with Hazon, a national non-profit that works to link Jewish tradition with environmental action.  Here in Seattle, we have found a local farm to bring you fresh, organic produce once a week during the growing season (June-October). 

We're already up and running for 2010, but we'd love for you to join the CSA in 2011!

Why Join?

  • Get a variety of organic produce at competitive prices
  • Support a local organic farm, a healthy environment, and a strong community
  • Visit a farm (especially fun on Jewish agriculturally-based holidays) 
  • Connect in new ways to Jewish values and traditions (yes, farming can be Jewish!) 
  • Build a community at Kavana with others who want to be more intentional about their food choices

CSAs Support Local Farms
In a CSA, a household subscribes to a local farm for the growing season and picks up a weekly box of fresh, organic produce. Our vegetables will come from Oxbow Farm, a 10-acre farm in Carnation, WA.

Your Weekly Box
Each box feeds four people or two strict vegetarians. Its contents will reflect the growing season. The start of each season is primarily leafy greens, soon becoming hefty, bountiful boxes full of the diversity of produce that grows in our region.  See what's in season.  (Want to split a box by getting it once every other week?  Contact us, we'll try to match you up with someone else.)

Pick-up Place & Time
Thursdays, 4-7pm.  You’ll come pick up your box at Kavana's space in Queen Anne or a home in Madrona.  This is NO ordinary pick-up!  We have a happy hour, we bob for snow peas, we grill vegtables, we experiment with bbq-ing lettuce, we learn Torah (sometimes), we get our extension cords and blend gazpacho on the spot, we play mini-soccer and croquet, we have talent shows ... passers-by literally stop on the street to ask what we're doing - it's that much fun!  (And that was all just in the first season!)

For more ideas and information about the "New Jewish Food Movement" check out Hazon's blog, The Jew and the Carrot.