Read below for CSA description, dates, costs, and pick up locations....

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WHAT IS A CSA?

 

By becoming a member of our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) community, we form a relationship with you and you get to know us as the people who grow your food. Essentially, you are purchasing a share of everything we are producing on the farm this season. Becoming a shareholder helps support a local family farm committed to growing the highest quality food. Your support is also a financial commitment. It enables us to prepare for the needs of the farm so that all of us can enjoy the bounty of the harvest not just this year, but for years to come.

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CSA members get perks: $25 of free store credit, farm newsletters, recipes, information about how to store things, an invitation to tour the farm at our farm open house and potlucks, and a direct line of communication to the folks that are growing your food. We humbly suggest that there is also a particular satisfaction that comes with supporting local farmers, agricultural production, good land stewardship, and the maintenance of our local food system. In a world full of sometimes questionable options, this is a purchase that you can genuinely feel good about.

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OUR CSA SHARES

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Our 2026 CSA is a "buy-down" / "store-credit" type CSA which gives you, the customer, more freedom and individual choice, helps reduce food waste, and reduces the problem of "box-fatigue" where you may receive items you don't need or want which subsequently go to waste. With our 2026 model, you get exactly what you want, when you want it.

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Love tomatoes but hate radishes? You're in control, so you can choose what you get and what you don't. Going on vacation? No problem! Need more of something special for a dinner party? We've got you covered! Basically, you (and we) get all the benefits of a CSA, with less guilt and concern over how to use everything in your box each week.

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Meanwhile, for those that want to make fewer decisions and just press the easy button each week, we'll have a single button press "harvest share" box each available each week that contains a bit of everything we are harvesting that week. 

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If you become a member of our 2026 CSA, you'll be bringing our farm to your table and enjoying fresh, healthy produce and other goodies on a schedule (and in quantities) that you choose, available beginning May 9, and ending in late November or December as harvests allow. Pickups on the farm are possible on Wednesdays afternoons, Thursday all day into early evening, and Saturday mornings. Pickups in Nashville at the Richland Park Farmers Market are on Saturday mornings. 

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We'll have some cool season items at the beginning and end of the season, plus your summer favorites, and maybe a few things you haven't tried before. We'll provide recipes and storage/preservation information throughout the season to help sort out any kitchen kerfuffles, and you can always ask us questions via email (or call in an emergency). Amongst many other things, we grow Arugula, Asian Greens, Basil, Beans, Beets, Bell Peppers, Blueberries, Cabbage, Calendula, Carrots, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Cucumbers, Dill, Eggplant, Endive, Fennel, Garlic, Hot Peppers, Jerusalem Artichokes, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Melons, Mustard Greens, Napa Cabbage, Okra, Onions, Oregano, Parsley, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Radishes, Radicchio, Roselle, Scapes, Sunflowers, Snow Peas, Spinach, Summer Squash, Strawberries, Sweet Potatoes, Tomatoes, Turnips, Watermelons, Winter Squash, Zinnias, Zucchini...  and so much more...

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Everything we grow/harvest to put in your in your CSA orders will be free from synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and GMO's, which maybe isn't necessary, but which makes us farmers and our land happier (and hopefully makes you feel better too). We're proud of the food we grow, and we hope you'll share some with your friends and family, as we do with ours. Though we have not yet pursued organic certification due to costs that are increasingly geared towards larger scale farms than ours, we do follow all of the rules, and enjoy telling anyone that will listen about our sustainable farming techniques.

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Each season, we choose a few items that we don't grow ourselves to source from other local sustainable farms for inclusion in our CSA offerings. Last year, these items included apples, blueberries, and muscadine grapes. Any time we are going to include something we did not grow ourselves, we are 100% transparent about its origins. Our goal is to provide our customers with the best variety of what's available at any point in the season.

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​Paying farmers up front provides us with the operating capital needed to purchase seed, compost, organic fertilizer and any specialized tools needed for growing your food, and to get started growing it. To give you a bell pepper in late summer for example, we need to start those plants in our greenhouse in early February. to have butternut squash in the fall, we must do all the prep and planting in late spring.

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Potential CSA members should note that nature may have plans that can affect varieties & yields of certain products. As CSA members you agree to accept this risk, along with the farmers themselves because the benefits are far greater than the possibilities of problems. Athena’s Harvest Farm employs good farming practices, and plants diverse varieties of plants to guard against nature’s plans, and we will do the best to find a substitute should one particular crop fail. We grow many different things, so we never have all of our eggs in one basket.

 

2026 CSA SHARE (STORE CREDIT) PRICE

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We have two initial credit tiers for folks wanting to to buy into the CSA. Our online system accepts all major credit/debit cards for payment.

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Tier 1 - $375 (receives $400 worth of store credit)

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Tier 2 - $750 (receives $775 worth of store credit)

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We'll remind you when your credit is close to running out and then you'll have the option to top up in $100 increments.

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HOW TO PURCHASE YOUR CSA SHARE (CREDITS)

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• Navigate to our CSA signup page (https://athenas-harvest-farm.localline.ca/csastorecredits)

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• Once there, you must purchase one of our "CSA Store Credit" items. Within 24 hours we will then add the credit to your account and you can begin shopping. We will also add you to our CSA email and newsletter list for all the CSA member communications and other perks. **Note** The store will require that you choose a "pickup location and date," when you initially purchase the CSA Store Credits, but in reality you can choose your pickup location each time you use your CSA store credits and are not required to use the same pick up time and location each time.​​

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MINIMUM ORDER LIMIT

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For both our CSA and non-CSA customers using our online store, there is $10 minimum purchase requirement for orders to be picked up at the farm or a the Richland Park farmers market.

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PICK-UP LOCATIONS AND TIMES

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We have 1 pickup location in Nashville, and 1 pickup location in Maury County. We do not deliver boxes to individual members.

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• Richland Park Farmers Market (Nashville - Charlotte Ave.)

  • (Saturdays 9am-Noon)

• On-Farm Pickup (Fly, TN / Santa Fe, TN)

  • (Wednesdays 1pm-5pm, Thursdays 8am-7pm, or Saturdays 8am - Noon)​

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Your pickup time/place can be selected each time you use your CSA credits to order from our online store. You are not limited to using the same place/time for pickup all season. However, once you have selected your pickup time/place for a particular order, we cannot change those details mid-stream.

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MISSED ORDER PICK-UP POLICY

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When members fail to pick up their boxes/orders as scheduled, we may agree to hold the order/box for you at the farm for you to pick up later, but we will not "make up" or re-harvest things for missed boxes that you failed to pick up at the agreed upon times. Most of our products are perishable, and if your order is not picked up, it will be donated to a local community refrigerator or the Nashville Food Project, fed to our hungry neighbors and interns, given to our chickens, composted for re-use on the farm, or offered as appeasement/sacrifice to our ravenous 7 year old son.

 

ADDITIONAL NOTES

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CSA shareholders/members are seen as active partners in our farm community/enterprise and as such, share in the risks and rewards of the harvest each year. We cannot offer a monetary refund for credit already purchased unless the farm fails to produce anything for sale (a catastrophic and extremely unlikely scenario). By the time harvest delivery begins, the seeds and other inputs for your shares have already been purchased, planted, and maintained. CSA/store credit that is not used by the end of the season (probably early to mid December), will not carry over to the next season. Use it or lose it. 

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We gently recommend that folks who cannot pick up an order that they have made for a given week consider having a friend or family member come pick it up on your behalf for delivery to you or for their own use.

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We recognize that the FARMER <---> CSA MEMBER partnership model is somewhat unique in today's consumer environment, and we appreciate your understanding and trust. We'll do our best to make our members happy and satisfied, and though our policies are outlined above, we are always willing to talk to folks about extreme extenuating circumstances while reserving the right to stick to the policy as written.

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