Zenger Farm is a working urban farm, growing 100+ varieties of vegetables. We also have a variety of mixed herbs and started including fresh cut flowers! Learn more about why you should choose CSA!
Our Portland CSA is perfect for those near the Lents, Powellhurst-Gilbert and Pleasant Valley neighborhoods. Our organic vegetables are grown locally and sustainably, and we even offer a sliding-scale payment model — one of the first in the nation! Our CSA will return in Spring of 2025 and will be announced on this webpage as well as our Instagram account @zengerfarm – please check back for updated in February 2025.
Half of our CSA shares are distributed to community members like yourself who sign up through our programming. The other half of the shares are allocated to our CSA Partnerships for Health Program.
CSA Partnerships for Health delivers CSA shares to low-income families affected by diet-related illness in an effort to address issues of food access and health disparities in Multnomah County. If you’d like to learn more about how this action supports Zenger Farm’s vision for a just food system, you can read about our mission, values and Strategic Plan here.
If you’d like to give feedback on these changes please email info@zengerfarm.org.
Fill out our waitlist form to add your name to the waitlist for the 2025 Zenger CSA. This list is to compile interest, and ensure your information is captured. It is not a guarantee that you will be granted membership next year. Once the CSA is open in the spring, those on this list will be emailed a link to the CSA signup form after which signups will be first come first served. You should hear back from us sometime in February or March.
Click here to get on our waitlist for 2025 CSA shares.
Includes 6-12 organic vegetables with limited amounts of herbs, fruits, and edible flowers. Learn more about what’s in a CSA and see example CSA shares!
Season Length: Pick-ups start June 5th and are every week until October 31st.
Pickup Location is Zenger Farm (11741 SE Foster Road)
Pickup Time is Thursdays from 4:00-6:00pm
Weekly Cost is $38 with the option to slide up or down using our sliding scale pricing and CSA Discounts.
Learn more about our Farming Practices.
Click here to get on our waitlist for 2025 CSA shares.
At Zenger Farm, we believe everyone has a right to
good food.
We accept Cash, Check, Credit/Debit Cards, and SNAP/EBT (formerly known as food stamps).
We offer monthly CSA payment plans for full, ¾, or ½ shares. With a payment plan, your total cost is divided into 6 equal payments. Your first payment is due at sign-up and the remaining five payments are due on the first of the month June-October.
We offer Sliding Scale Pricing and CSA Discounts so that everyone may join our CSA community.
We participate in Double Up Food Bucks. Members who pay with SNAP are eligible for up to $200 off the cost of their CSA. Double Up Food Bucks reduce the cost of your CSA in addition to any sliding scale discount you select. Double Up Food Bucks is a SNAP match program from the Pacific Northwest CSA Coalition. For every dollar that you pay for your CSA with SNAP/EBT (formerly food stamps), the CSA Coalition provides a matching dollar to Zenger Farm, making CSA more affordable for you while helping to support programming at Zenger Farm. The CSA Coalition will match every SNAP dollar paid by a member up to $200 for Full or ¾ shares and $100 for ½ shares (there is no funding for ¼ Shares).
For example, a ¾ share (18 weeks) is priced at $600 for a family of four earning a minimum living wage. But if your family earns less, you can use our sliding scale pricing to get a discount. Let’s say your family qualifies for a 40% discount on our sliding scale, then your price would be $360. But with Double Up food Bucks, your family would only pay $180 because the CSA Coalition provides a matching payment to Zenger Farm for the remaining $180. With a 6 month payment plan, your family would only pay $30/month. When we say, “we believe everyone has a right to good food,” this is what we mean.
We encourage you to sign up early, to reserve your Double Up Food Bucks. The amount of funding for this program is limited and available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
You can always request a larger CSA discount or contribution. If our sliding scale is not broad enough and you would like a larger CSA discount or contribution, please email your request to csa@zengerfarm.org
Full Share is a 22-week CSA ($850), picked up every Thursday June 5th through October30th.
Choose-Your-Week Custom CSA Shares:
Want to try out a Portland CSA before joining for the whole season? Going on vacation this summer? Now you can pick up your vegetables exactly when you want them: any Thursday between June 5th through October 30th!
16 weeks ($550), your choice, between June 5th and October 30th.
11 weeks ($375), your choice, between June 5th and October 30th.
6 weeks ($200), your choice, between June 5th and October 30th.
Additional Details:
- Zenger Farm’s Custom CSA only allows you to customize which weeks you pick up your CSA. You still pick up your share on Thursdays 4-6 pm and you still get the same vegetables as the other members.
- You can upgrade to more weeks later by paying the difference!
- We may limit the number of members who can choose a week based on factors like the supply of vegetables or size of the farm crew.