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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 nonprofit 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). 


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.

How it Works
This year, we're asking Kavana's CSA participants to register directly with Oxbow Farm to purchase your share.  Kavana will continue to provide CSA related programming, but in order to stay in the loop and participate you'll need to email us so that we'll know to include you in our CSA newsletters!

Step 1: Choose the size share you want
You'll have the option of signing up for a Family Share (which is great for families or vegetarians) or a Small Share (which will provide lots of great veggies for 1-2 people). Its contents will reflect the growing season (which is 20 weeks from mid-June to October - exact dates t.b.d.).  Family shares cost $630 and Small shares cost $420 for the entire season.  The start of each season features lots of leafy greens, soon becoming hefty, bountiful boxes full of the diversity of produce that grows in our region.  See what's in season.  

Step 2: Choose one of many drop-off locations
Once you choose the size of your share, you'll be taken to a page where you can choose which location you'd like to pick up your veggies at each week. Kavana H.Q. (located on the top of Queen Anne) will continue to be a drop-off site this year on Thursdays from 4-7pm, but you don't have to choose our location in order to participate in our CSA program!  We encourage you to pick whichever one of Oxbow's many drop-off locations around the Seattle area is most convenient for you.  

Step 3: Donate through Kavana so we can purchase extra shares!
Over the past few years, we've taken up a collection from our Kavana CSA folks and we've managed to purchase a few extra boxes of produce.  These boxes -- together with any that you donate week-to-week (say, if you're on vacation one week) -- will be donated this year to the ROOTS Shelter in the U District.  They were super appreciative for our donation last year, and put the veggies to great use, feeding lots of homeless youths with healthy and nourishing home-cooked meals.  Wondering how much to give?  Really, we'll take any amount, but we always suggest "tithing" -- that is, based on the Biblical mandate to donate 1/10th of produce, we'd encourage folks who are purchasing Family Shares to donate $63 and folks who are purchasing Small Shares to donate $42.  Please write a check to Kavana and send it to us at P.O. Box 19666, Seattle, WA 98109, and mark "CSA donation box" in the memo line.

Step 4: Let us know that you've registered with Oxbow
Once you've finished the registration process, please send us an email to let us know that you have registered with the farm and want to be involved in Kavana's CSA programming.  Through an assortment of different gatherings and learning opportunities, we will strive to build a strong sense of community among our CSA group.

Here's a sneak peek about what's in the works for this year:

  • Two hands-on farm visits (one in June - to check out the farm at the beginning of the growing season, and one in the fall - when we'll celebrate Sukkot and the harvest with a hands-on gleaning project)
  • Weekly Shabbat get-togethers at a local park that might include: bobbing for snow peas, grilling vegetables, blending gazpacho on the spot, playing a pick-up game of soccer or croquet, potluck dinners with dishes containing one or more item from the CSA box, etc.  Three of these sessions will be in conjunction with Kavana's Shabbat in the Park that includes a Shabbat service and catered dinner!
  • Weekly dvar torah articles and recipes emailed to you from our friends from Hazon.
  • Potluck brunches throughout the growing season, cooking or canning activities... whatever YOU want to make happen!

Register Now!  
Please register directly with the farmers by clicking this link.  Remember to email us once you finish so we can add you to our list as well!