To sign up for pre-pick shares, click here. Unless they fill beforehand, signups will close May 8th.

To sign up for upick shares, please visit our upick page.

How Does the Wild Blueberry CSA work?
For pre-pick shares, you choose how many shares you want based on the box size(s) you would like to have (20, 10, or 5# boxes) as well as you desired pickup location. Unless they fill up sooner, signups will close May 8th.

2026 CSA Pricing:
20 pound share – $110 ($115 for pickup locations)
10 pound share – $57 ($61 for pickup locations)
5 pound share – $30 ($33 for pickup locations)

The Benefits of Membership:

• Becoming a stakeholder in the Benson Place and supporting our work in regenerative agriculture, local food production and ecosystem stewardship.
• Easier Ordering: We will reach out to you to confirm your order or schedule a u-pick time in early July – no more July 5th sign-up mayhem! We will customize our pickup locations based around member preferences.
• Member orders will be prioritized and filled first.
• Members pricing will be set at $0.25 per pound less than non-member pricing.

The Benson Place CSA is not risk free: shares are non-refundable and in purchasing a share, you are signing up for a share in the blueberry harvest AND a share in the risks associated with farming. Having said that, we aim to offer full transparency so that potential shareholders can assess the risk themselves. In order to ensure that, on most years, the crop will be of sufficient size to fill members’ orders, the number of shares sold will be capped at one- half of the seven year historical yield average in pounds. For 2026, this means we will limit pre-pick shares to a total of 8,000 pounds and u-pick shares to a total of 2,000 pounds. For all of the past 15 years, except for the total loss of 2023, the blueberry yield would have been sufficient to fulfill the shares even in the past two very low years. For a more extensive yield history, click here.

Why a CSA?

Having worked on several vegetable CSA’s as a fledgling farmer, I’ve always been drawn to this model that recognized the intimate and life-sustaining connections between community, farmer, land, and nourishment. After all, these connections are what fuel so many of us who farm. Over the years, I’ve considered the CSA model for the Benson Place and have always been stumped by the logistics: how do you reliably distribute a single crop with wildly fluctuating yields to a community of farm members?

But I keep returning to the idea of a CSA because it seems to best represent what we are already doing here together. Most of you have been making the annual summer pilgrimage to pick or pick up Benson Place blueberries for years. Some of you have been coming to the farm for decades, long before I started working for previous owner Dave Gott in 2009 (Yay for Dave!). You have supported this farm through many transitions, through low years and high years, total crop loss and expansion. And we keep committing, year after year, to tending this land with our very best despite the unpredictability that comes with this wacky business of farming. In return, the land has provided high quality nourishment to sustain us all. To me, a system that acknowledges this type of ongoing dedication just feels right.

In addition, the devastating frost event of 2023 and the extreme rainfall and drought periods of 2024 and 2025 have opened my eyes to the necessity of building even greater farm and community resiliency as we swiftly move into a future likely to be shaped by a more erratic climate. The cash-up-front feature of CSA’s helps farmers maintain healthy cash flow and provides a greater sense of financial security which, in turn, frees up time and energy to invest in projects that build ecological and financial stability and resiliency. For customers, the CSA model provides the opportunity to become true stakeholders in the enterprises that provide nourishment for the community and to help ensure their future viability.