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The Northside Food Access Coalition is a community-led group of partners who are working to bring fresh solutions for healthy food access to Richmond, VA’s Northside.

08/02/2025

We donated 250 bags of fresh produce today to back to school event! & !

03/09/2025

Are you ready? Don’t hesitate , sign up to get your shares , CSA starts June 4th!

Hey did you know joining a Black farmers CSA is a way to support and empower Black farmers, promote food justice and equity, and contribute to building a more inclusive and resilient food system. By joining, you can help address historical injustices, support communities of color, and enjoy fresh, locally grown produce.

Join and Stay tuned for more details!!

10/09/2024

Local food has more nutrients.

Food imported from far-away states and countries is often older, has traveled farther, and sits in distribution centers before it gets to your store.

Local food has a shorter time between harvest and your table, and it is less likely that the nutrient value has decreased by the time it gets to you compared to food you buy at typical grocery stores.

When you eat local, you eat healthier, more nutrient-dense foods.

Farmers need secure tenure to LAND to be able to grow nutritious food for communities.

09/27/2024

Have you joined yet?
October is all most here , it’s your last chance to join before the end of our season!!

Sign up today!

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09/07/2024

October is the end of the CSA season, but it’s not too late! Order online before midnight on Tuesday to pick up each Thursday. Purchase for the week, month, or pay if forward!

08/09/2024

Veggies galore!!

Sign up today!! Link in the bio!!

What is the Black Farmer CSA?

A CSA is acronym that stands for community supported agriculture. The concept was created by Booker T Whatley, a black farmer and professor from Tuskegee University. Basically Whatley’s premise if that community members could purchase from farmers not only through farmers markets but directly through signing up for clientele membership clubs. This way folks would have an intimate relationship with their farmer and receive weekly shares of produce that had been grown on the farm. Farmers sell those memberships at the beginning of the season and would visit the farm and pick their own produce.

The Black Farmer CSA is an iteration of Whatley’s concept. The Northside Food Access Coalition aggregates produce from black farmers across the region and individuals can purchase weekly, biweekly or season subscriptions that guarantee them an assortment of fresh produce from farmers across the region. Each week differs in what you might get because everything is seasonal. Typically there are 6-7 different types of produce in the share ranging from cabbage, greens, eggs, watermelon, squash, peppers, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, herbs, onions and pears.

We have invested in cold storage across the region that allows farmers to drop off produce for the Black Farmer CSA and allows them to focus on growing instead of having to risk going to the farmers market and hoping folks buy their harvest. It’s a lot of work to grow food AND harvest it AND drive to the market, set up a booth, sell the things, accept SNAP and everything else. So we try to play our part as urban farmers to reduce the amount of work that our rural farmers have to do by making it easy for them to get their produce to you.

Note: if we don’t purchase from black farmers they will go extinct

Sign up for the Black Farmer CSA! We have space for our fall CSA! It is 35$ a week. We accept SNAP. Visit northsidefoodaccess.com

08/06/2024

Have you joined yet?

September CSA shares are open for sign up! Hit the link northsidefoodaccess.com!!

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07/31/2024

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07/24/2024

It’s CSA Day, Wednesday CSA members pick up at 10-3!! Last week all our members got a nice sweet watermelon, let’s see what’s for dinner this week!

It’s alway cool to stop in to see the volunteer and the joy they have at the food pantry.

07/18/2024

It’s CSA Day!! Wednesday’s and Thursday’s we unload all the freshness!! This week we have Watermelons!!

Interested? visit northsidefoodaccess.com to subscribe to the black farmer CSA - everybody who signed up for that is getting a watermelon in the subscription today plus a dozen eggs, cabbage, bell peppers, yellow corn, onions, cherry tomatoes and squash. We accept credit card, cash and snap

06/28/2024

We love when our CSA members love their shares!!

This week they had a serious choice to make blueberries from or Local honey from Farmer Obar !

There’s still time to join and now we have two pick up locations !! Thursdays and Wednesdays !

06/23/2024

We’ve got Wednesdays and Thursdays on lock with two locations to pick up your CSA shares, head to the website to sign up.

Our friends are opening up their doors for our CSA members to pick up Wednesdays 10-3!! If you’d like to change your pick up location email us. Iif you can now join due to the new hours and location head over to the website now!

A quick recap our partners are located at 3602 Hawthorn Ave , Richmond Va 23222, pick up time will be Wednesday 10-3 and you must email us or select the new location on the website to pick up there, otherwise we will see you on Thursdays as usual.

Address

4225 Old Brook Rd
Richmond, VA
23227

Website

http://www.northsidefoodaccess.com/

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