Snead’s Farm is trying something new in 2024. For the first time, we are offering the opportunity to purchase a one-month CSA membership. We will offer a July-only membership, as well as an August membership that also includes our October distributions. If you want a full season’s worth of local produce, from asparagus to melons and peaches to pumpkins, the full-year CSA is still your best value (and the only way to get CSA boxes in May and June). But as we have spoken with families, it has become evident that a one-month subscription option could serve those who may have plans to be out of town for a big part of the summer, or only want to receive boxes once specific items are in season.
Purchase a monthly CSA online here.
The monthly CSA is only available for our small share size. This is typically enough for one family. All monthly CSA members will pick up their boxes on Wednesdays at Snead’s Farm. Monthly CSA members will have the same pick-your-own opportunities that full-year CSA members have, during the month that their subscription covers.
In 2024, we are selling the following monthly CSA subscriptions:
| Month | CSA Pickup Dates | Produce typically included* | Price |
| July | July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 | Eggs, greens, tomatoes, peaches, raspberries, blackberries, sunflowers, eggplant, potatoes, squash, cantaloupe, peppers, corn, watermelon. | $200 |
| August and October | Aug. 7, 14; Oct. 2, 31 | Eggs, peaches, tomatoes, squash, peppers, corn, watermelon, blackberries, grapes, sunflowers, cantaloupe, apples, sweet potatoes, pumpkins. | $150 |
*We cannot guarantee all of these items will come in during the month, but they are typically included in CSA boxes during this month.
Joining the Snead’s Farm monthly CSA is like buying a “share” in our farm’s product for the month. In exchange for your investment, you receive a “dividend” of the freshest produce possible. Members take on some of the risks and share in the benefits of growing food. CSAs are not about getting discounted produce, nor are they cooperatives. However, the Snead’s Farm CSA strives to be unsurpassed in the combination of value, quality, freshness, quantity and variety of items offered with the least amount of risk possible.
What does a share include?
Snead’s Farm CSA shares include fresh produce from our farm, as well as from Canning Farm of King George County, Idlewood Farm near Richmond, Moss Neck Farm of Caroline County and Braehead Farm of Fredericksburg. These partnerships allow us to offer a wider variety of items in our weekly boxes, reduce the risk to the consumer and promote the success of more local farms.
The contents of boxes will vary based on the yield of fruit and vegetable fields, plants and orchards, and of the laying hens, which depends on the forces of nature. However, Snead’s Farm and its partners have enough variety, growing more than 40 different crops, that enough shall come to fruition to afford everyone a good supply of almost everything. All crops at Snead’s Farm can be irrigated, greatly reducing the risk of failure.
The Snead’s Farm CSA may offer pick-your-own opportunities to members for raspberries, blackberries, sunflowers or grapes when there is a plentiful crop; however, Snead’s Farm cannot guarantee this. Small-share owners will enjoy the same pick-your-own opportunities as full-share owners.
Pickup: All pickups will take place at Snead’s Farm on Wednesdays, between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Use the QR Code at right to subscribe to the appropriate monthly CSA e-mail list. You will receive an e-mail on the Sunday night before your pickup previewing the contents of the box and detailing the location and hours of any pick-your-own opportunities that week.
If you know that you will miss your pickup, your options are to have someone pick it up for you or to simply forgo your share for the week. In addition, you may call Snead’s Farm by 8 p.m. on the Sunday before your pickup to request that your share be donated to the Fredericksburg Food Bank that week. Cash refunds or share replacements will not be offered for any missed pickups. You are welcome to visit, picnic and stroll around the farm on pickup day, and on bonus pick-your-own days, which are usually on Saturday mornings.
How to join: Click here to buy online, or print out this form and send it with your payment to: Emmett Snead, 18294 Tidewater Trail, Fredericksburg VA 22408. Please make checks payable to Emmett Snead, according to the chart above.