Join Teresa’s Fruit CSA for Great-Tasting & Healthy Fruits throughout the season
The 2023 CSA is now full, but you may get on the Wait List by filling in the form under “CSA Pick-up” below. Thank you!
CSA Fruits
As a CSA member, you get a wide array of Mouth-Watering, Pesticide-Free Fruits lovingly grown on our farm in Eureka.
Depending on the weather, the fruit you get will vary slightly year to year, but most years my CSA members get most of these fruits, in approximately this order, starting in June and continuing through until the 45-share quota is met:
Strawberries, Pineberries, Honeyberries, Raspberries, Currants (red, white, black), Gooseberries, Blueberries, Cherries, Peaches, Aronia berries, Muskmelons, Watermelons, Ground cherries, Pawpaws, Apples, Pears, Asian pears.
In addition, you may receive jam I make from my fruit, applesauce, Aronia berry juice, and/or herb teas made with our herbs and fruits. Here’s the complete list of all the specific fruits and varieties we grow.
CSA Details
The cost of a membership for the 2023 season is $240 for 45 shares, with a “share” being:
One pint of strawberries, peaches, ground cherries, cherries, or aronia berries
One half-pint of raspberries, black raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, kiwiberries, or pawpaws
One quart of apples or pears
One melon or watermelon
One jar of jam, two bags of herb tea, or one bottle of aronia juice
You will receive 45 “shares” of fruit per season. Most weeks you will receive 1 or 2 shares, but some weeks, you will receive 3, 4 or even 5 shares -- because when a particular fruit is at the peak of its season, you get to share in the abundance! If you’ve been buying organic fruit at the grocery store, you know this is a steal!
For more information, please read the FAQs.
CSA Pick-up
When you join the Fruit CSA, you’ll choose your pick-up location and get the exact address and time.
Where: We have pick-up locations in Eureka, Morton, Bloomington/Normal, Central Peoria, near Peoria Heights, and at Henry's Farm between Goodfield and Congerville.
When: Pick ups are Tuesday evening for all locations.
The 2023 Fruit CSA is full.
CSA Background
If you remember sun-kissed, tree-ripened peaches bursting with flavorful juices that run down your chin when you bite in--or if you’ve been disappointed after buying a quart of large, tasteless grocery store strawberries—then my Fruit CSA is what you‘ve been waiting for! When you join, you get the freshest, tastiest, most nutritious and pesticide-free fruit possible each week through the growing season, with convenient pick-up locations in Bloomington, Peoria, Morton, and Eureka.
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture which is a mutually beneficial partnership between you and a local farmer. Farmers receive payment early in the season, which helps with seed, planting, mulching, tilling, and many other start-up expenses, while consumers save money and gain access to local, seasonal, delicious, nutritious, just-picked fruit direct from the farm.
If you‘re going to eat fruit, it‘s important to know who grew it and how, since most fruit is sprayed with dozens of toxic agri-chemicals. In 2018, seven of the top eight items on the “Dirty Dozen” list of most toxic fruits and vegetables, updated each year by the Environmental Working Group, were fruits: strawberries, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, and pears.
In fact, the USDA’s 2014 strawberry tests found that:
Almost all samples (98 percent) had detectable residues of at least one pesticide.
Some 40 percent had residues of 10 or more pesticides.
The “dirtiest” strawberry sample had residues from 17 different pesticides.
Strawberry growers used 60 different pesticides in various combinations.
But as a member of my fruit CSA, instead of getting a tasteless, poison-laden strawberry, you’ll get sweet-smelling strawberries with explosive flavors and absolutely no pesticides. And much, much more!