Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

CSA 2025 is Open!

What is a CSA Membership?

When you join our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program, you’re committing to local agriculture by sharing the risks and rewards of the farming season with us. Each week, you'll arrive at the farm to pick up a box of fresh, seasonal produce grown by our farm crew. But it's more than just a box of veggies; by prepaying for your season's worth of fresh food, you’re helping us cover the cost of seeds and supplies we need early in the season. In return, we’ll reward you with the best variety and quality of produce we have to offer all season long! Click here for a peek at last year’s boxes and recipes.

Is a CSA Share Right for You?

There are reasons why our members love having a CSA share and some reasons why they don’t. The biggest challenges seem to be using your entire share and picking it up weekly. CSA is not the right fit for everyone; if it's not right for you, don’t fret. Visit our market and select your favorite veggies.

Ask yourself these questions:

  • Is eating with the seasons important to you? 

  • Do you value fresh, locally grown vegetables and knowing the farmers who grow your food?

  • Do you enjoy cooking and are you willing to be creative in the kitchen, sometimes with unusual vegetables?

  • Can you prep your harvest for storage and preserve it by canning, freezing, pickling or fermenting?

  • Do you value teaching your children, family, and friends how to eat a healthy diet?

  • Will you enjoy and have time to stop by the farm each week to pick up your CSA share?

  • Are you interested in picking flowers and produce in our fields?

  • Do you support local agriculture and want to make a difference in the local environment and economy?

You'd enjoy our CSA if you answered yes to most of these questions.  

Ask yourself these questions:

  • Are you often too busy to have time for prepping and making meals at home?

  • Are you a “picky” eater with strong preferences for certain vegetables?

  • Do you travel frequently and will not be able to pick up a weekly CSA box?

  • Do you prefer to eat most of your meals at restaurants?

If you answered yes to these questions, we think you’d enjoy buying your veggies a la carte from our market instead of becoming a CSA Member.

 CSA Signup Details

How to Sign Up:

STEP ONE: Select your pickup day:

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

  • Wednesday 8-11am

  • Brooklyn only, Wednesday 2-4pm

  • Fridays 2-5pm

  • Saturdays 8-11am

STEP TWO: Select your vegetable share length and size.

Choose the share length that works for you. We offer nine different share lengths, starting Memorial Day and ending with Thanksgiving. Pickups are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This year, we will continue offering small and large shares. For our Brooklyn members, only a large share will be offered. Our large share offers a generous selection of 8 to 11 items and some extras. Our small share consists of a selection of 7 to 8 items and some extras. Shares will include a growing season of fresh farm produce from Memorial Day to Thanksgiving! You'll genuinely eat with the seasons by enjoying the more than sixty crops we grow at the farm and get our very best membership value. Fresh spring greens and herbs give way to summer cucumbers and tomatoes, followed by fall sweet potatoes, squash, crunchy broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots.

STEP THREE: Select your optional add-on shares:

Add your choice of bread, fruit, cheese, flower bouquets or kitchen item add-on share (see below for a full description of our optional add-ons). Be sure to match your add-on share lengths to your vegetable share! Click the photo to learn more about the add-on share and the producers!

We are committed to supporting our community members facing food insecurity. In addition to our weekly food pantry donations, we are offering a 25% discount on CSA shares to those experiencing financial hardship. To apply, please complete this short form, and our CSA manager will reach out to you directly.
Please note that financial assistance for CSA membership is not available to middle and upper-income individuals, as our CSA program is vital in providing our farm with the financial stability needed to support both new and experienced farmers in their continued growth as well as the sustainability of the farm.

 Season Length & Pickup Options

2025 Season Length

  • BEST VALUE! Memorial Day - Thanksgiving (27 weeks; $1404, small share $972) 

  • Memorial Day - Indigenous Peoples' Day (21 weeks; $1113, small share $777)

  • Memorial Day - Labor Day (15 weeks; $930, small share $615)

  • July 4th - Thanksgiving (21 weeks; $1197, small share $819)

  • July 4th - Indigenous Peoples' Day (15 weeks; $900, small share $600)

  • July 4th - Labor Day (9 weeks; $648, small share $432)

  • The Month of August (5 weeks; $425, small share $295)

  • Labor Day - Thanksgiving (12 weeks; $660, small share $456)

  • Labor Day - Indigenous Peoples' Day (6 weeks; $342 small share $234)

  • Brooklyn Fall Share: We are offering a large Fall CSA share to our Brooklyn members from Labor Day to Thanksgiving. Pickup will be available at The Delta, 210 Court St, Brooklyn, on Wednesdays from 2 - 4p. Please reach out to csa@amberwavesfarm.org if you want to add the Brooklyn fall share to an Amagansett summer share.

Pickup Days & Times 

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

  • Wednesday 8-11am

  • Brooklyn only, Wednesday 2-4pm

  • Fridays 2-5pm

  • Saturdays 8-11am

Add-On Shares

  • Sign up for a weekly rotating bread share from various bread bakers, including Il Buco Bakery, Panadda Sourdough and Orwashers Bakery. The share will consist of freshly baked artisan loaves, including baguettes, ciabattas, Filones and boules! Please match the season length of your bread share with your vegetable share.
    Panadda Sourdough, a local artisanal bakery in Sag Harbor, bakes hand-crafted sourdough boules. Panadda bread is baked in small batches and delivered freshly baked on your CSA pickup day. The whole wheat sourdough boules are made with hard red wheat flour from Amber Waves Farm. Pumpernickel and 100% rye sourdough loaves of bread are made with Amber Waves dark rye flour.

    Baked in-house daily, we will offer a variety of breads from Il Buco Bakery, including Filones, winter wheat and whole wheat flour, and Stiratos, winter wheat flour.

    In addition, we will include a variety of heritage and artisanal bread from Orwashers made fresh daily - baguettes, multi-grain baguettes and ciabatta. Orwashers was founded in 1916 by a Hungarian immigrant family. Since then, Orwashers has become one of NYC’s most iconic bakeries.

  • Enjoy a variety of artisanal cheeses, including cheese from our local friends at Mecox Bay Dairy, Catapano Dairy, Goodale Farms, and Villa Italian Specialties. The rotating share alternates between local, New York State, and Northeast cheeses, including various raw milk cow cheeses produced by Mecox Bay Dairy in Bridgehampton, a selection of goat cheeses produced by Catapano Dairy Farm and Goodale Farms on the North Fork and fresh mozzarella from Villa Italian Specialties in East Hampton. Please match the season length of your cheese share with your vegetable share.

    Our East End Farmers and Producers: Villa Italian Specialties (fresh mozzarella), Mecox Bay Dairy (raw milk cow cheese), Goodale Farms (goat cheese), and Catapano Dairy. New York State Producers include Nettle Meadow Farm (cow and soft goat cheeses), Old Chatham Creamery (sheep cheeses), and others!

  • We partner with Briermere Farms in Riverhead, Balsam Farms in Amagansett, Truxel Peach Farm and the Milk Pail in Watermill to bring you the best seasonal selection of Long Island fruit! Seasonal fruit includes berries, peaches, plums, pears, apples, melon and more.

    Briermere and Milk Pail fruit are low or no spray but not organic (please let us know if you have more questions about this). Fruit shares begin June 10th and run through the end of the season.

    The McCombe Family has operated Briermere Farms in Riverhead since the 1970s. They're known island-wide for their extraordinary pies, but they are also talented farmers! They specialize in fresh berries, plums, peaches, apples, and pears, depending on the season.

    The Milk Pail is owned and operated by the Halsey family, who have been farming in Bridgehampton and Watermill for 12 generations. They specialize in an array of new and traditional apple varieties that are sure to wow even the pickiest of apple tasters.

    Balsam Farm, our neighboring farm in Amagansett, founded in 2003, farms approximately 200 acres of mixed vegetables, fruits, herbs, cut flowers, and grains.

    Truxel Peach Farm in East Hampton specializes in different varieties of lusciously delicious tree-ripened peaches.

  • Enjoy a delicious selection of hummus, pesto, dressings, soups, seasonal loaves, sauces, and more from the Amber Waves Kitchen. These house-made specialties change with the seasons and perfectly complement your weekly box. Please match the season length of your Fresh from our Kitchen add-on with your vegetable share.

  • Brighten up your week with an artistically designed farmer's choice mixed bouquet, offered at a discount! (Our market price is $40.) This share includes one floral arrangement featuring fresh Amber Waves farm-grown flowers per week. Bouquets will include specialty and unique varieties that change weekly throughout the season. Flower Bouquet shares are available July 4 through Indigenous Peoples' Day.

    *All CSA members will still have access to the Pick Your Own flower and vegetable fields, regardless of whether you add a flower share to your membership*Item description

 CSA Member Value

We appreciate your commitment to the farm and want you to feel good about your choice to join us - we depend on your partnership to keep growing!

CSA Member Value

Vegetable Box......................20% below retail price over the course of the season

Bonus items......................supplement your box with a little bit of free choice each week

Add-On Shares......................selected and curated for you each week at 10% off retail pricing

Pick Your Own....................$30 weekly value from July - Oct; free as part of your membership

Newsletter & Recipes...................updates from the field and creative recipes for your bounty

Exclusive Beyond the Gates Tours………tour our fields with our farm crew and meet and enjoy a meal with your fellow members

Market Discount*......................10% off your purchases at Amber Waves Market & Kitchen in the weeks your membership is active

 *Memorial Day through Thanksgiving members receive the 10% discount all year. Year-round CSA discounts are active from the day you sign up through January 31 of the following year. There will be some overlap time as a grace period between when your year-round discount ends and when you need to sign up again to avoid a lapse.

CSA Value Details

  • The Box: The weekly box of fresh vegetables is the basis of the CSA membership. Fresh, seasonal veggies are picked straight from our fields all season long! Choose the season length that works best for you with a variety of start and end dates to accommodate your family’s schedule.

  • Add-on Shares (optional): Add a local bread, fruit, cheese, flower bouquet or our fresh from our kitchen item to supplement your weekly box of veggies!

  • Pick Your Own in the Fields: In addition to your weekly box of veggies, you’ll have access to special Pick Your Own areas of the field when your membership is active. Pick Your Own may include (depending on the time of season) flowers, herbs, shishito peppers, cherry tomatoes, husk cherries, sugar snap peas, and a few other treats. The Pick Your Own perk applies to primary family members of the CSA share and is not transferable to friends or guests picking up your share in your place. Our weekly CSA newsletter will list all items available in Pick Your Own and any limits to how much you can harvest, especially when we first open a row for harvest and limited quantities are available. Expect the Pick Your Own flower fields to open in July.

  • Weekly Newsletter and Recipes: Each week, you’ll receive our newsletter updating you on what’s going on in the fields, what’s new in the box, and our farmer and member recommended recipes and preserving, canning, freezing, and pickling tips for using your bounty.

  • CSA Handbook: Printed information about the farm, an outline of member perks and policies, and information about the vegetables we grow. Also included are farmer-based suggestions on storing and cooking the produce in your weekly box and nutritional information.

  • CSA Discount in our Market & Kitchen: As a CSA member, you’ll receive a 10% discount while your membership is active.  Memorial Day through Thanksgiving members receive the 10% discount all year. All other CSA members only receive the 10% discount in the Market when their membership is active. Please remind your cashier at checkout. The store discount only applies to primary family members of your CSA share. It is not transferable to friends, guests, or extended family picking up your share in your place. As a member of our CSA family, we ask that you respect and honor our policies.

  • Member Tours & Community Potlucks: You'll be invited to tour the fields with our farm crew and meet and enjoy a meal with your fellow members. 

Here’s What We Get As Farmers

  • Financing: Your on-time payments early in the season enable us to buy seeds, supplies, and equipment and to get growing!

  • Insurance: Your commitment to the farm and understanding of the challenges inherent in agricultural production spreads the risks and rewards of the growing season between us. Together, we'll share both the failures and successes of each season; we count on your membership to support the farm even in cases of massive crop failure caused by weather events, insects, or disease.

  • Flexibility: Members' season-long commitments to the farm enable flexibility within our crop planning and help us absorb excess/bumper crops of a particular item during times of great abundance, which helps us cut down on food waste.

  • Freedom: Your support of the farm's mission as an educational farm gives us the freedom to experiment with new crops, growing methods, and projects while doing our most important work: training our crew of Apprentices who will go on to become the next generation of farmers in America. We sacrifice some efficiency via this training and experimentation model. Still, our belief in information-sharing and teaching is the basis for Amber Waves Farm, and your support helps us continuously pursue that mission.

  • Feedback: We want to make our members happy! We want to know your favorites and least favorites to continue improving our crop list (while we encourage you to get out of your comfort zone to eat with the seasons and try unfamiliar vegetables).

  • Family: We readily acknowledge that we couldn't have come this far without you. Your support and encouragement (some of you for the full seventeen seasons!) is the lifeblood of the farm (family is also a literal term here - Katie first met her husband, Dan, when he joined our CSA!)

Questions? Email CSA@amberwavesfarm.org