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How our Harvest Box Program Works
YYC Growers’ Harvest Box is a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)-style program. We pay fair prices to member-farmers and other trusted local producers to bring you a diverse medley of high quality vegetables and other crops grown in and around Calgary and Southern Alberta. Our farms practice regenerative farming that heal the earth while producing clean, delicious, and nutrient-dense food (scroll down to learn more about our farmers). We offer home delivery within Calgary and Cochrane as well as local pickup at over a dozen community locations in and around the city.
Pickup or Delivery
Eating local should be convenient. That's why we have dozens of neighbourhood pickup locations in the Calgary region. From breweries and bakeries to city parks and LRT stations, our volunteer-hosted pickup locations are designed to build community. We also offer home delivery right to your door!
GET STARTED
Follow the link below to sign up for a Vegetable Harvest Box or create an account for Farm Store access only. You’ll also be able to choose add-on subscriptions such as locally roasted coffee, farm-fresh eggs, grass-fed beef, and BC fruit. Once your account is made, you’ll receive a welcome email from us outlining everything else you need to know. If you have any questions or run into any issues during the signup process, shoot us a message at info@yycgrowers.com and we will be happy to help.
YYC Growers Vegetable Harvest Box
YYC Growers’ staple offering is our year-round weekly/bi-weekly Vegetable Harvest Box subscription. For $35/box, you’ll receive the best value possible on the freshest local produce you can get your hands on. You will experience the best of the changing seasons, complete with all of the crops that Alberta grows best. The cost of each week’s box is balanced each week, so you can expect fair value no matter the season. We even send out a forecast each week of our projected box contents to help you plan your meals and extra shopping from our online Farm Store. It’s easy to pause your subscription, and pickup customers have access to a trade bin for making substitutions. Harvest Box Subscriptions are pre-paid via credit-card or e-transfer at a frequency of 4, 12, or 24 deliveries-at-a-time.
YYC Growers Farm Store
If a Harvest Box subscription just doesn’t fit you or your family's eating habits, we keep our online Farm Store stocked with everything that’s available fresh from our growers along with plenty of exclusive local goodies. Fresh items from the Farm Store are harvested to order and sent to your door or local pickup location. It’s like having access to a virtual farmers market—without the commitment of a subscription. Harvest Box subscribers are always free to purchase from the Farm Store each week to supplement their regular orders.
To create an account for Farm Store access only, select “Guest Access” during signup. You will be required to enter a credit card into the system which will only be charged for purchases made (despite the unclear wording of the checkout page).
ABOUT OUR FARMERS
Communities vote for their future with the dollars they spend. By purchasing through YYC Growers, you provide a reliable market for small-scale local farmers and producers who are working to reshape and reinvigorate our current system of industrialized agriculture. Because of your support, our farmers are able to add health and resilience to our soil, waterways, economies, and communities. You know who is growing your food and can count on it reaching your table. Farmers know who is eating their food and can count on a market for their work. That’s sustainability and resilience in action, and you make it happen! YYC Growers believes that soil health equals vegetable health and in turn, your health. Our farmers work hard to regenerate soil health and sequester carbon through a variety of methods: no till, cover crops, adding organic matter—and more. All farms have different methods to enact the best growing practices for their particular context. YYC Growers is partnered with a variety of member farms, each with their own context (urban vs. rural, soil vs. aquaponic/hydroponic). Some of our members are precluded from official Organic Certification because they are hydroponic, raise livestock, or because they are urban. Many of our members and other supplying farms carry organic certification (Our Family Farm, Eagle Creek, Lunds Organics, Mans Organics, Poplar Bluff—to name a few). YYC Growers puts transparency first, and we want our customers to know how their food is grown. All of our farms are GMO and glyphosate free. We meet and travel to our member farms and would encourage you to do the same. For specific questions you may have about our farms, feel free to contact our farms directly or email info@yycgrowers.com.
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