*** 2023 Important Information ***
Vegetable & Flower Availability:
After many years of growing a large variety of vegetables, we cut back on crops a few years ago for our physical and mental health and that of our staff! The food side of the farm produces high quality organic garden starts, tomatoes, garlic, and salad / arugula. We may occasionally have other vegetables available at our farm stand here in Huson, but they mostly feed us and our staff.
Flowers are plentiful! From tulips early in the season to ranunculus, peonies, roses, etc. Flowers are always available to purchase with Farm Share credit at the farm stand and at our market booth at the Clark Fork Market in Missoula. You can also use your Farm Share cash for UPick Flowers!
We also grow a variety of Market Starts, primarily tomatoes and peppers, and you can use your share credit to purchase plants for your garden.
2023 Reparations:
We feel strongly about supporting the Indigenous community in Montana and will be sending funds (with your help!) to an Indigenous led organization that focuses on local tribal rights, land access, or food security. More info below!
if you already have a farm share,
CHECK YOUR SHARE BALANCE HERE
Farm Share Information:
You can enjoy County Rail Farm’s certified organic produce and + Field Five Flowers‘ blooms by becoming a Farm Share member. Members pay for vegetables, fruits, plants, and flowers in advance during the winter months to support the farm’s early season activities (like buying seed and paying employees) and use their credit at farmers market, our farm stand, and/or for events throughout the season. We use a credit based Farm Share system rather than weekly set boxes.
Our Farm Share program is based on a positive relationship between farmers and their community that keeps agricultural land and our bodies healthy and sustainable. Community members support the farm by purchasing a Farm Share before the growing season begins. In return, the farmer takes care of the land while growing quality, local, and healthy veggies and blooms.
2021 Farm Shares come in $100, $200, $300, and $400 paid in full early in the year. Don’t be afraid to mix and match shares for the totals you want ($500 or $600, etc). Then, when market starts, members have that amount of credit at our market stand plus an additional 10% when paid by March 1st or 5% when paid by May 1st. So, if you chose the $300 option and you get it in now, you’d have $330 to spend at market throughout the year with us. The earlier you get your Farm Share, the more cash you have at market (get a $300 share before March and you’ll have $330 credit, between March 1st and May 1st, you’d have $315 credit).
Returning Share Members get 15% extra credit to spend or donate if paid before March 1st.
We run our farm on the traditional lands of the Bitterroot Salish (Séliš), Pend d’Oreille (Ql̓ispé), Nez Perce (Nimíipuu), Coeur d’Alene (Schi̲tsu’umsh), and Kootenai (Ktunʌ́χɑ̝) peoples and we acknowledge and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. Thanks to our members, we were able to donate $400 to the People’s Food Soverigenty Program and CSKT part of our community reparations in 2022. We’ll do the same this year and you’ll see an option on the membership form to donate your “extra credit” to an Indigenous led organization that focuses on local tribal rights, land access, or food security. In other words, if you buy a $100 share in February, we’ll donate your extra $10 rather than add it to your share credit.
As always, we carry over credit from last year into the current season – if you didn’t spend all the credit you purchased in 2022, we’ll keep your share in the books for another full year. Find your credit here with your card number! If you don’t know your number, please shoot us an email and we’ll get it to you.
From May through October, we’ll be at the Clark Fork Market every Saturday, under the Higgins Bridge from 8am-1pm (9am-1pm in October). Remember that some items do sell out by the end of market, so come early to get your favorites. Farm Share credit can be used for anything at our market booth or farm stand and any events that we host (members also get first option for tickets to our Farm Dinners and other events).
Fill out our Membership Form today and we’ll see you at market!
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Why a credit based Farm Share?
On your end, you get to pick out the stuff you want in the amounts you want and use your credit for anything our farm offers. If you’re going out of town or want to take a week off, no sweat. If you’re having visitors and need lots of veggies or a couple fresh bouquets, you can stock up. And you still get to support the farm and know your farmers up close and personal. On our end, we don’t have to worry about planting exactly the right number of corn or peppers to make the share quota, we don’t lose produce from forgotten pick-ups, we still get some early income, and we maintain a close relationship with you, our customers and your families.
SNAP:
We’re dedicated to providing low-income families with the best produce we can offer. Our Farmers Markets take EBT and have double-SNAP programs, so you get up to $20 match from our market when you swipe your card at their booth (swipe for $20, get $40 in SNAP market tokens!).
Click here for more information about Double SNAP from CFAC!
Work Shares:
Simple and easy. If you come up and work for a day, you go home with veggies and or flowers. No counting days, no hour quota to fill. We’ll make it worth the drive. This is open to anyone who wants to come up and help out, Share member or not.
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Looking forward to lucky 13 – thirteen seasons of growing good food under the good sun! Join us for the summer and enjoy fresh, local produce and blooms that come from people you know and trust.
We believe that maintaining a close relationship with our food and flowers changes the way we eat and the way we interact with agriculture and our community. We want to be a positive force in the local food and floral system, one that nourishes both bodies and communities. Let us know if you’d like to come out and see us!
We love hearing from you. Let us know what you think <3