Organic CSA Program FAQ

Look out for our Friday morning newsletter, it will contain instructions, updates, recipes, and a link that takes you to the website page that allows you to place your order for the following week. If you think you are not receiving your newsletter, please contact us immediately as this is our primary means of keeping the CSA organized and running smoothly. We recommend creating an account the first time you order, please make sure the account name is the same as the name you registered under.
After placing your order, look out for receipt in your email. If you did not receive a receipt, please contact us to ensure your order went through. 

Learn how our build your own box, organic CSA program works so that you can start nourishing your family with local fresh organic produce.

First each Friday you’ll get a link in our newsletter that takes you to our website.  Then, you select your organic produce in our digital farmer’s market for the following week.  Submit your order by Sunday and you’ll get a confirmation email. 

After that, you’ll pick up your box of fresh produce at your selected pick-up location: 

Tuesdays 2:30-5:30pm at 69 Maxim Dr, Forked River
Tuesdays 3:30-7 at Save Barnegat Bay Eco Center 117 Haines Rd, Toms River, NJ 08753
NEW: Tuesdays on LBI (details TBD)
Fridays 3:30-7pm at the Farm
Saturdays 8:30-1:30pm (June through September) during the Brick Farmer’s Market, Windward Beach Park, then 9am-11am (October-Mid-November) in the park parking lot. 
*When registering for the full season, you may choose to pick up weekly or every other week. 

*You can also choose to pick up from June-Mid-August only.

Arrive anytime during the allotted time for the pick up location you have selected. Bring your own bags to transfer your produce from the plastic bin labeled with your name. If you have eggs or extras, they will be placed on top of your bin. 

Forked River Pick Up: Street parking only. Pick up is on the front porch of farmer Joey’s parents’ house. 

Farm Pick Up: Park in one of the mulched lots on the left of the driveway (please do not park in front of the garage). Pick up is inside the little red barn.

Brick Farmer’s Market Pick Up: June through September pick up is during market hours from 8:30-1:30 in the park (we are set up on the shaded side). After market ends, pick up is in the dirt parking lot from 9am-11am. 

We grow over 50 vegetables, herbs, and fruit on our small farm. In Spring and Fall you can expect all types of nutrient packed greens and root vegetables. During the warmest months you will share in a bounty of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, cucumbers, beans, potatoes and more!

In general, an item will be one head, bunch, bag, pint, or quart of a vegetable.  Quantities that are considered a single item for vegetables that don’t fit into a bunch, bag, or container will fluctuate depending on the week due to natural differences in the plants’ production.

For example, when cucumbers first start producing, 2 cucumbers may be considered an item.  Then, at peak time for cucumbers, 6 cucumbers may be considered a single item.

Quantities are always given as a maximum, so no one is forced to take 6 cucumbers!

Our online ordering system allows you to choose from a list of available produce so that no one is forced to take any one vegetable.

Your options are: Double up before or after the week you are skipping, have a friend pick up, or donate it to our local food pantry!

Contact us within 24 hours after your usual pick up to schedule a pick up time prior to Saturday at 5pm of the same week, otherwise it will be donated to our local food pantry. 

Absolutely! Extend at anytime, just send us an email. 

  • If you feel overwhelmed or don’t recognize a vegetable , it is totally ok to ask your farmers questions, they love talking about veggies!
  • Your produce will store best unwashed and, other than tomatoes,  most things do best refrigerated.
  • Don’t feel like you need a recipe with a million ingredients, simple is good and substitutions are fine. Experiment with switching out different greens and similar flavors. Ie. Don’t have onions? Throw in scallions. No spinach? Try Swiss chard. 
  • Sauté it, grill it, roast it, puree it… add olive oil salt and pepper and try one of these with pretty much anything… and don’t think you can’t cook lettuce! 
  • Most greens make great pestos just add oil, your favorite nut, and cheese if you like and those greens will disappear!
  • The freezer is your friend when you just can’t get to things, we even throw in whole bags of arugula and spinach to cook later.

Please give us a call us at 732-604-3536  or send an email to ramblinsolfarm.com

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