Community Supported Agriculture: Summer Season Veggie Box

Our Summer Season veggie box for 2024/2025 is officially over. Check back soon for our Autumn/Winter offering in a couple of months.

There will only be 14 shares available for our first summer CSA of organic and biodynamic veggies. Our Autumn/Winter CSA will be released shortly - have your say!

Grown locally in Hydes Creek, Bellingen by The Patch Organics. Available in three sizes with a minimum of 8 or more different types of fruit and veggies; you can be sure that you are purchasing a nutritious and healthy option for your family, and supporting a local farming family committed to regenerative and organic growing practices.

• Option 01 - Small Box $35.00 weekly or $345 upfront.
• Option 02  - Medium Box $49.95 weekly or $490 upfront. 
• Option 03 - Large Box $69.95 weekly or $690 upfront. 

Mizuna
Cimi Di Rappa (Broccollini greens)
Chillies
Zucchini's
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Squash
Capsicums
Eggplant
Pumpkin
Herb Bouquet: Parsley, Rosemary, Mint, Basil
Lemongrass
Garlic
Carrot
Watermelon
Rockmelon
* Turmeric

All items with a star (*) are sourced from organic, local growers.


What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)?
A CSA is a model of food production and distribution that directly connects farmers and eaters – people buy shares in a farm’s projected harvest in advance and for a set period. Being part of a CSA is a way for eaters to share with the farmer the costs and risks of farming as well as the bounty. As a community, we can choose who we want to grow our food, how it is grown and who benefits. 

What is the bounty I’m funding?
At The Patch Organics, we grow certified organic and biodynamic veggies, pasture-raised and organic meat chicken, and regularly hold education courses and workshops on farms to increase community resilience. Your CSA share will directly go towards the market-garden enterprise. Your share will go towards making the market garden sustainable - covering the costs of the harvest, paying worker wages, and providing a reasonable margin. 

Who grows our food, how is it grown and who is benefiting?
We are a family-owned business on a journey to live more connected, sustainable and purposeful lives. We grow our veggies using permaculture principles to ensure that we are regenerating our soils and enlivening our ecosystem. We use biodynamic practices to positively energise our food and increase our community's capacity for regeneration and connection. We plant a diversity of plants in the ground (not all crops) to create a harmonious and balanced habitat for everything to thrive. When we cannot supply diversity in our boxes, we will source it from our trusted fellow local farmers and pay full price so that more than one farmer benefits. We aim to create a community that is resilient via localised and circular economic models. 

All CSAs include a family day tour of our market garden over the school summer holidays.

Delivery/Pick Up
All orders must be placed by 4 pm on Tuesdays. We harvest and pack on Wednesday.

Your CSA box can be picked up from the following locations:
- Wednesday from 2:30 pm - 5 pm along Church Street, Bellingen.
- Tuesdays from 2 - 5 pm from the Bello Beef Butchery in Korora.
- Saturday from 8 am - 11 am from The Bellingen Growers Markets inside of the Bellingen Showgrounds OR from the Bellingen Community Markets in Bellingen Park.

More pick-up points can be created depending on our members.

You can also pick up your box directly from Levenvale Farm from 1 pm Wednesdays to Sundays.

When you subscribe to our CSA, you will be contacted and your pick-up preference noted.

Want to chat more about this? Want to add another pick-up point? Call Nidya on 0422 872 206.