You can choose to become a "working CSA member" by volunteering at the farm for a lower-price CSA share. See the CSA registration form for the specific volunteering discount and corresponding volunteer hours expected throughout the season. Both more physically intense field work and less physically intensive vegetable, flower, and herb preparation work is available, so people of all abilities have the opportunity to volunteer. For example, bunching and boxing vegetables and herbs could be done while sitting. You may also volunteer at our CSA check-in table during distribution and meet all of our members! All volunteer opportunities at the farm are stewarded by our nonprofit partner, Seed Song Center.
Volunteer Opportunities Options
(from least physically active to most physically active opportunities)
Other Skills
Do you have other skills that a farm would need? Please share with us your special skills on your CSA registration form.
COVID Safety
As currently required by New York State, all volunteers MUST wear a properly-fitting mask that fully covers your nose and mouth as you work. If your mask does not properly fit or if you forget you your mask, we will offer you another mask to wear, if available. To ensure the health and safety of our farm crew and our CSA members, we will ask you to stop volunteering if your mask does not fit properly.
Register for a Day, Time & Volunteer Activity
We use signupgenius.com to coordinate and schedule CSA volunteers. Please register in advance for a day, time slot and a particular volunteer activity.
Click on the links below to view:
Wednesday CSA Distribution Volunteer Opportunities
Friday Volunteer Opportunities to prepare for CSA Distribution on Saturday and weekend events
Saturday CSA Distribution Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Tasks
Please note that task priorities will change from day to day based on weather, staffing availability, and other factors. We will do our best to assign you to your particular volunteering request, but please be prepared to be flexible when your chosen activity is not possible. Of course, we will work with any physical limitations to accommodate volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities Options
(from least physically active to most physically active opportunities)
- Checking in CSA members. This involves sitting only and using a pencil or pen to check off members
- Bunching and boxing vegetables and herbs. This involves standing or sitting and using hands to bunch produce with rubber bands or box produce in pint and quart boxes. This activity sometimes involves weighting produce with a scale
- Displaying aesthetically pleasing arrangements of vegetables and herbs and re-stocking vegetables and herbs throughout CSA distribution. This involves carrying trays or boxes of produce from cooler right behind the farm store to CSA pick-up area at farm store
- Washing produce. This involves standing at the wash station and using your hands
- Harvesting flowers, herbs and other items from our nearby you-pick fields in all weather conditions. This is generally a less physically intensive, more relaxed harvesting activity
- Harvesting vegetables. This involves joining the farm crew in a physically intensive activity in all weather conditions
- Weeding vegetable beds. This involves joining the farm crew in a physically intensive in all weather conditions
Other Skills
Do you have other skills that a farm would need? Please share with us your special skills on your CSA registration form.
COVID Safety
As currently required by New York State, all volunteers MUST wear a properly-fitting mask that fully covers your nose and mouth as you work. If your mask does not properly fit or if you forget you your mask, we will offer you another mask to wear, if available. To ensure the health and safety of our farm crew and our CSA members, we will ask you to stop volunteering if your mask does not fit properly.
Register for a Day, Time & Volunteer Activity
We use signupgenius.com to coordinate and schedule CSA volunteers. Please register in advance for a day, time slot and a particular volunteer activity.
Click on the links below to view:
Wednesday CSA Distribution Volunteer Opportunities
Friday Volunteer Opportunities to prepare for CSA Distribution on Saturday and weekend events
Saturday CSA Distribution Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer Tasks
Please note that task priorities will change from day to day based on weather, staffing availability, and other factors. We will do our best to assign you to your particular volunteering request, but please be prepared to be flexible when your chosen activity is not possible. Of course, we will work with any physical limitations to accommodate volunteers.