2025 Flower CSA info coming soon…
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New to flower CSA’s? Read the Q & A section below.
Summer CSA
Enjoy the bounty of Vermont’s short growing season with a beautiful fresh bouquet of vibrant summer blooms! Each week you’ll receive a luscious bouquet full of different specialty blooms in season. Bouquets come wrapped in a recyclable brown paper sleeve for you to carry home.
Giving the CSA as a gift? Add the item to your cart then enter the recipients’ info in the required form that pops up.
~What you’ll receive: 1 hearty bouquet/week
~Duration: 6 weeks
~Dates: TBD
~Pick-up day/time: TBD
~Location: Montpelier, Vermont
Autumn CSA
Celebrate leaf peeping season with a bountiful bouquet of gorgeous autumnal blooms! Each week leading up to frost you’ll receive a beautiful fresh bouquet teeming with unique fall blooms, ornamental grasses, grains and pods. Fresh bouquets include many flowers you can dry at home. After frost comes, you’ll receive a weekly dried flower arrangement for the rest of the CSA season. Bouquets come wrapped in a recyclable brown paper sleeve.
Giving the CSA as a gift? Add the item to your cart then enter the recipients’ info in the required form that pops up.
~What you’ll receive: 1 hearty bouquet/week
~Duration: 6 weeks
~Dates: TBD
~Pick-up day/time: TBD
~Location: TBD
Flower CSA Question & Answers
Q: What exactly is a CSA? How is a flower CSA different than a veggie CSA?
A: CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Members support a local farm by pre-paying ahead of time for a portion of the farms’ produce, which gets distributed to members regularly throughout the season. The CSA model provides farmers much needed cash flow in the lean time of the year when expenses are high and income is low. Most veggie farms provide CSA members with a box of fresh veggies every week. The Old Time Flowers CSA provides members with a bouquet of flowers every week throughout the Summer and Fall.
Q: Can I give the CSA share as a gift?
A: Absolutely! CSA shares make great gifts and many members have joined because they were gifted a share. The best way to give the CSA as a gift is to buy the CSA share through the online shop and enter the recipients’ info into the required form that pops up. Jenny will confirm with you that she received your order, then contact the recipient via email with all the CSA pick-up details. Easy!
Q: Is the flower CSA a good fit for my schedule?
A: The CSA pick-up dates, time and location are the same every week and are posted well in advance. This helps you decide if you’ll be able to make it to all (or most) of the CSA pick-ups. Jenny communicates with members via a weekly email and recommends you put the CSA pick-up on your calendar. If you have a crazy busy schedule (work, kids, school, travel, etc), it might be hard to fit a weekly CSA pick-up into your life and is probably not the right fit. If you’d like occasional bouquets, please contact us to place an order for delivery or pick-up instead of joining the CSA.
Q: What is required of me as a CSA member?
A: CSA members are expected to read the very short weekly email reminders to keep up to date on any changes with the CSA pick-ups.
Part of being a CSA member is sharing in the ebbs and flows of the growing season with your farmer. Some weeks the bouquets will be a bit smaller, some weeks larger, depending on how productive the farm is. Sometimes unexpected events happen—like a massive flood—and Jenny does her very best to roll with the punches and get your flowers to you every week. In case of an emergency she will notify members as quickly as possible via email and change the CSA pick-up details for that week. If for some rare reason she needs to cancel a week, a make-up week will be tagged on at the end of the CSA season.
Q: What happens if I miss a CSA pick-up day or can’t make it one week?
A: Don’t worry, it happens! If you can’t make it to the regularly scheduled CSA pick-up day, the flowers will still be left out the following day waiting for you. You’re welcome to swing by and grab them any time from dawn to dusk. Any bouquets left after 9 PM that day will be donated. You are also welcome to send a friend or family member to pick up your bouquet if you can’t make it. Members are responsible for making sure they pick up their CSA bouquet every week.
Q: Local flowers are more expensive than grocery store flowers. Are they really worth it?
A: Local flowers are totally worth it in so many ways! As a farmer, Jenny works insanely hard to grow beautiful blooms that bring joy and support your mental well-being, which is essential to living a good life. Local flowers are incredibly fresh—typically harvested the day before getting to you—and are grown organically on Jenny’s small farm, having a positive impact on the local environment. Her flowers have a minimal carbon footprint, traveling just a few miles from the farm to your home. Most grocery store flowers are grown and processed in other countries using loads of nasty chemicals on big industrial farms, which is why they’re cheaper. These flowers travel thousands of miles to reach you and are typically over a week old by the time they arrive.
As the climate and times change in the world, Jenny is excited to be part of a sustainable working landscape and local economy, helping create a healthy, more resilient future for all. Having support from CSA members who share her vision inspires her to keep growing flowers for the community!
