If I donate to Towne's Harvest, how will my gift be used?
We provide outreach and educational opportunities for MSU and engage the community in learning about sustainable agriculture. To keep the program and garden thriving, we seek to fund our paid student positions focused on leadership development and outreach.
About Towne's Harvest Garden
The Towne's Harvest Garden is a three-acre diversified vegetable and educational research farm supporting a student-run, community-supported organic market garden and vegetable subscription program. Towne's Harvest Garden promotes learning about food production, the value of eating and supporting local foods, community building and individual empowerment. The Garden is named after the Towne family, one of the original homesteaders in the beautiful Gallatin Valley.
How does Community Supported Agriculture work?
We sell shares in the harvest of each season. CSA shareholders enjoy vegetable diversity, abundance, value and a connection to the seasons. From arugula to zucchini, we grow it all. We aim to provide a solid value in comparison to purchasing comparable organic vegetables from area stores. We are a student operated business with experiential education as a major focus and shareholders' pre-purchase of a season’s worth of vegetables makes this possible.
Shareholders share in the risk. A late spring frost, a June hailstorm, a bad seed lot, a cool year, a hot year—many factors affect the production of crops. In our 15 years we have never failed to deliver a solid value of a wide range of vegetables. Our diversity in crops, crop timing, and use of coverings buys us quite a bit of resilience to weather. When shareholders purchase a CSA subscription they agree to share in the risk and the rewards of this diversity.