2025 Faith Community Supported Agriculture

Sign-ups for our 2025 FCSA season are open.  If your faith community is already a participating church pick-up site, you can sign up now!  If you'd like to learn more, read on for information about this innovative produce program that invites you to enjoy good fruits in solidarity with those who hunger. 

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If you’re a fan of local food, you’ve likely heard of “CSA” farms - a model of Community Supported Agriculture in which consumers subscribe up front to a season of produce, providing timely income and a sure market for small farmers. Members of our local community and of our partner congregations are invited to join in our second year of Good Courage Farm’s “FCSA” - Faith Community Supported Agriculture.

 

In response to feedback from our pilot-year subscribers, we're offering more choice and more flexibility our to FCSA members in 2025. What will this look like?

 

A $100 Membership Contribution to the ministry (tax deductible to the extent allowed by law) subsidizes shares of produce to our food access partners (First Nations Kitchen, Casa Maria, McLeod County Emergency Food Shelf). In 2024, the ministry donated 13,367 servings of produce to feed neighbors experiencing food insecurity.

 

Your membership gives you access to the Good Courage Online Farm Stand, where you can purchase seasonal, fresh-picked Minnesota fruits (and some vegetables and eggs) in the quantities you desire. Market-style CSAs like ours forego the traditional weekly box share in favor of a storefront that lets you select which produce you want to purchase and which weeks you're available to pick up at church.

 

Produce pick-up is at participating churches on Sundays from May through October. On-farm pickup is also available weekly. Recipes and newsletters will accompany each week's announcement of what's in season.  

              Which churches are already pick-up sites?

• Grace Episcopal Church, Minneapolis

• Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis

• River of Hope ELCA, Hutchinson

• St. Clement's Episcopal Church, St. Paul

• St. David's Episcopal Church, Minnetonka

• St. John's Episcopal Church, Linden Hills

• St. Stephen's Church, Edina

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Would you like your church to be a produce pick-up site this year?  Get 12 households to sign up as members and we'll work with your clergy, administrator, and Sunday staff to make it happen!

 

What grows at Good Courage Farm? We produce regeneratively grown perennial crops, free from conventional sprays and fertilizers, including:

• rhubarb

• asparagus

• shiitake mushrooms

• currants (red, black, white)

• gooseberries

• elderberries

• pears

• apples

• plums

• apricots (with good weather luck!)

• table grapes

• juice/wine grapes

• raspberries

• sea buckthorn berries

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We're also looking forward to offering jams, pies, cider, and freeze-dried fruit as value-added products available through our Online Farm Stand. Stay tuned!

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Good Courage Farm is located at 21161 York Road, in Hutchinson, Minnesota.  Good Courage Farm is an independent non-profit religious organization (EIN 87-1092418) affiliated with The Episcopal Church in Minnesota.

Are you interested in our delicious fruit, but can't afford a subscription at this time? Reach out to us and we'll make sure you get some sweetness from the farm.
 

If you have any questions or ideas, please call us at 320-331-3332 or email us at fcsa@goodcourage.farm