For farms with a CSA
Your subscribers. Your money. Our routes. The co-op’s crew is already at the Boulder Farmers Market on Saturday morning with a van and a solved route out of it. Hand us your stack of boxes at your stall and we drive them, for a flat fee per box that actually lands.
You get the Saturday afternoon back. You keep the relationship you spent years building. Nothing about your CSA changes except who is driving.
How it works
01
Your CSA's name, what's in a box, roughly how many a week, and a fee per box we agree on together. It depends on how tight your subscribers cluster, because that is the only thing that actually changes what it costs us.
02
Name, address, city, zip, coordinates, and a note if there's a gate code. Paste it again on Thursday with a correction and we update the week — we never double it. Numbers move; you don't have to phone anyone.
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At your own stall, in the morning, in your own boxes with your own labels. We count them into the van alongside the co-op's baskets. You go back to selling.
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Your boxes are stops on a route we solve anyway, out of the market itself. Proof photo at every door, and the list on your farm desk turns green box by box as the afternoon goes.
The fee
We charge a flat amount for each box we put on a doorstep. Not a percentage of what your subscriber paid you, not a share of your harvest, not a markup on anything. A price for a drive.
There is no published house rate, and we’d rather say that than invent one. What a route costs is geometry — how many boxes, how close together, how far from 13th Street — so we work the number out with you, in the open, from your actual list. Then it stays put.
Billed monthly against the boxes that landed. We never hold a card, and a box we failed to deliver is a box you don’t pay for.
What the fee buys
A crew member on a guaranteed floor
Not a gig. The floor is posted before they claim the shift and it does not move afterwards, whatever the weather or the traffic does.
A route that was going out anyway
Your boxes join the co-op's own on one solved run, which is exactly why this is cheap enough to be worth doing. Two half-empty vans would cost twice and pay the same.
Proof at every door
A photo, a timestamp, and a status your farm desk can read the same afternoon.
Ownership, for them
The crew are members of this co-op and the hours they drive accrue them a share of it. That is the difference between this and a courier, and it is why the fee is what it is.
Straight answers
You do, all of it. We never touch your CSA payments, never take a share of a box, and never invoice your subscribers. We invoice you, monthly, for the boxes that landed.
Yours. We don't email them, we don't market to them, and we don't offer them our own box. Their addresses live in the co-op's own database with the same handling as our members' — which means they are not in anything we publish to the open network.
You don't pay for it. The fee is per box delivered, closed out by a crew member at the door with a photo. A failed stop shows up as failed on your page the same afternoon, and it's on us to tell you why.
No. This is a delivery service and nothing else. Plenty of farms will do both — we buy at your stall on Saturday and drive your CSA the same afternoon — but neither one requires the other.
Then it costs more, and we'll say so before you sign anything rather than after. A route is geometry: six boxes in one neighbourhood and sixty across three towns are not the same job, and pretending otherwise would be a promise one of us couldn't keep.
Any week. Pause the program and the next list simply doesn't load. Boxes already on this Saturday's van still go — we don't strand a subscriber to make a point.
And the part nobody advertises
This is a young co-op running one market. We can carry a handful of CSAs well before we’d have to add a second van, and when we get there the honest answer is a waiting list, not a worse route. If your subscribers are scattered across three counties we will tell you the number is bad rather than quote you one you’ll resent in March. Everything we book, and what it pays the people driving it, shows up in the open books every Monday.
A rough count and the zips your subscribers sit in is enough to start. We’ll come back with a number, what it’s based on, and whether we can actually do it well this season.
A delivery agreement needs somebody at the farm to sign it, so claiming your stall page comes first — it takes about a minute, and it also shows you everything the co-op has already bought from you.