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The Boreal Farm Cleaning carrots and broccoli in the sink

Certified Organic CSA

Our commitment to Transparency and Soil Health

Our Certifying agent ~ Midwest Organic Services Association ~ the second largest certifing agency in the US.
The Boreal Farm is USDA Certified Organic since 2017 and the only certified organic produce farm in St. Louis, Lake and Cook counties.
Real Organic Project Certified since 2019 ~ commited to healthy soil and pasture-based organic farming that is better for the environment, better for animals, and better for the health of all people involved.
Minnesota Grown Certified Organic farm
Minnesota Agriculture Water Quality Certified for our conservation practices in protecting water quality.
Certified Bee Friendly Farm for our efforts to protect, preserve and promote pollinator health.
Proud member and supporter of the Sustainable Farming Association's vision of a vibrant Midwest where regenerative farms, rural communities, and the land thrive by transforming agriculture one farm at a time.

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2025 Summer CSA

Now is the time to sign up for your certified organic CSA share for the summer of 2025! Nine weeks of the most amazing produce, June through August, just hours from harvest to your table.

The Boreal Farm Weekly CSA Example

CSA

Community Supported Agriculture

is a partnership between the farmer and member that keeps independent farms thriving and families eating seasonal, locally grown foods. Together, Farmers and Members build a stronger, local food system by keeping food dollars local, setting our tables with organic foods, and sustaining small farmers through shared risk of the harvest.

FAQ

What is CSA?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture where you personally support local farmers in a very real way by purchasing a share of the harvest to come. This is a more reliable way of growing food for small farmers whereby we can concentrate our primary efforts on growing amazing fresh, nutritious food for you. Your early investment helps us with our seasonal start-up costs like seeds, tools, potting soil, compost, and staffing. In return, we provide you with a weekly share of farm fresh harvest.

Shared Risk

By signing up to our CSA program, you are agreeing to share in the many risks and rewards of small scale, local, certified organic farming. Veggies grow outdoors under many extremes and are exposed to wind, rain, heat, cold, animals, bugs, hail, excessive rain, drought, escaping livestock from neighbors….you get the idea. Farms are carved out the natural landscape, which makes for rewarding, yet unpredicable work.

How it Works...

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A little more on crop failure...

Pests, predation, disease, and weather can cause crop failure at any time of the growing season, and we cannot issue refunds in the case of crop failure.

However, to minimize risk, we grow a wide array of veggies that are proven producers, often planting saved seeds from past years’ most resilient plants, plant succession, irrigate in times of drought, cover crops with netting, and companion plant for beneficial relationships with fellow plants, birds, animals, insects, and soil microorganisms ~ supporting and nurturing diversity above and below the soil for a robust, adaptive ecosystem.

The Boreal Farm Overflowing plate of purple pea pods and bits of vine and pea flowers

"Vegetables are the soul's food, the poet's inspiration, and the chef's canvas."