First Light Farm offers numerous ways to become involved and increase your access to healthy foods as well as your knowledge about sustainable practices that you can use in your own life and garden at home:
1. Become a Member of First Light Farm:
We value our members. They are the heart of our farming community. For an annual fee of $35, you become a member of First Light Farm and:
2. Receive weekly local produce from our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program
4. Grow Your Own Food: Become a Mini Farmer (a great summer-time activity for an individual or the whole family -- No Experience Needed!)
First Light Farm's WorkShare Program is for people who volunteer their time for a minimum of 4/hours/week throughout the summer to participate in the daily work of a farm, enjoy "getting their hands dirty", and learn the full cycle of eco-farming through hands-on experience in seed propagation, seeding, weeding, harvesting, selling as well as soil care and sustainable practices. Scheduling can be flexible. If you’re interested in joining our workshare program which starts in March and runs through October, email us at firstlightfarm@earthlink.net. We love our volunteers!
6. Take classes: learn new skills and gather new knowledge about food, health and well-being
First Light Farm's educational program provide opportunities for learning about how food, physical wellness and spiritual well-being are inter-related. The farm offers different opportunities to connect with new information, try new foods, make new friends, and rediscover a way of being that helps slow you down and opens up spaces for more joy and personal well-being.
7. Invest in a Sustainable Future: Become a Sustaining Member of First Light Farm
First Light Farm operates from a principle of care -- care for the soil, care for our staff, and care for the communities we serve. By becoming a Sustaining Member of First Light Farm, you join with us in helping care for the habitability of our planet, in our work to regain fertile soils and plant biodiversity, and in addressing the social inequities that exist where not everyone has access to affordable healthy foods. As a small farm, we are dependent on our larger community, our Sustaining Members, who share their resources as well as passion and expertise because they too are committed to a sustainable earth community. Your gift of $1,000.00+ is your commitment to being part of First Light Farm's mission for social and ecological change beginning with healthy soils. We hope you will join us in making a difference in our world. Call us or send your check to First Light Farm, 720 North 84th Street, Seattle, WA 98103. Let's work together for a more sustainable tomorrow.
Want to be on our mailing list? Want to join as a member? Like to try your hand as a farmer with your own mini farm? Volunteer? Interested in learning more about our CSA program? We have lots of options for you to be involved! Email us below. Let's get healthy and care for our beautiful earth together!
1. Become a Member of First Light Farm:
We value our members. They are the heart of our farming community. For an annual fee of $35, you become a member of First Light Farm and:
- Take our Educational Classes at discounted prices;
- Purchase freshly-harvested Bulk Vegetables at discounted prices through our u-pick or CSA program;
- Harvest on Thursdays and Fridays - not just on weekends when the farm is open to the public;
- Grow your own Food by joining our Mini Farm Program -- plant, cultivate, and grow your own food on your own mini farm (separate fees apply for the different sizes of mini farms);
- Enjoy our seasonal theme-based farm lunches at discounted prices;
- Participate in the farm's "Renew, Refresh and Reset" program -- an educational and spiritually/physically renewing experience where we help you plan your own day-long retreat;
- Bring your organization or team out for a day's experience of team-building and take home freshly-harvested produce ;
- Receive our weekly newsletter with recipes, information about sustainable practices, and other important news;
- Purchase bulk orders of tomatoes, cucumbers, green beans and squashes through our u-pick or CSA program;
- Obtain your own organic vegetable starts for your own garden or mini farm.
2. Receive weekly local produce from our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program
- First Light Farm has a CSA program for Carnation/Duvall/Fall City folks (pick up at the farm) and Seattle residents (in particular our Greenwood and Phinney neighbors) who don't want to personally drive to the farm each week to pick their own produce, but instead want us to select fresh, seasonal, sustainably-grown vegetables, flowers and herbs for them. Weekly prices range from $20 (1-2 people), $35 (small family), to $45 (large family or small group/organization) for a bag of freshly-harvested produce.
- Enjoy picking your own vegetables, flowers and herbs through our farm’s U-pick program,
Saturdays-Sundays, 10:30-5:00 pm, June through September and 10:30-4:00 pm in October
(depending on weather); - Shop at our farm stand (same hours as above); and
- Expand your knowledge through one of our classes (see our blog).
4. Grow Your Own Food: Become a Mini Farmer (a great summer-time activity for an individual or the whole family -- No Experience Needed!)
- Grow your own food on your own "mini farm"
- Different sizes Mini Farms available (10'x10' up to 10'x90')
- Read the article by a former mini farmer and be amazed by how much you can grow yourself!
- Support, tools and encouragement provided
First Light Farm's WorkShare Program is for people who volunteer their time for a minimum of 4/hours/week throughout the summer to participate in the daily work of a farm, enjoy "getting their hands dirty", and learn the full cycle of eco-farming through hands-on experience in seed propagation, seeding, weeding, harvesting, selling as well as soil care and sustainable practices. Scheduling can be flexible. If you’re interested in joining our workshare program which starts in March and runs through October, email us at firstlightfarm@earthlink.net. We love our volunteers!
6. Take classes: learn new skills and gather new knowledge about food, health and well-being
First Light Farm's educational program provide opportunities for learning about how food, physical wellness and spiritual well-being are inter-related. The farm offers different opportunities to connect with new information, try new foods, make new friends, and rediscover a way of being that helps slow you down and opens up spaces for more joy and personal well-being.
7. Invest in a Sustainable Future: Become a Sustaining Member of First Light Farm
First Light Farm operates from a principle of care -- care for the soil, care for our staff, and care for the communities we serve. By becoming a Sustaining Member of First Light Farm, you join with us in helping care for the habitability of our planet, in our work to regain fertile soils and plant biodiversity, and in addressing the social inequities that exist where not everyone has access to affordable healthy foods. As a small farm, we are dependent on our larger community, our Sustaining Members, who share their resources as well as passion and expertise because they too are committed to a sustainable earth community. Your gift of $1,000.00+ is your commitment to being part of First Light Farm's mission for social and ecological change beginning with healthy soils. We hope you will join us in making a difference in our world. Call us or send your check to First Light Farm, 720 North 84th Street, Seattle, WA 98103. Let's work together for a more sustainable tomorrow.
Want to be on our mailing list? Want to join as a member? Like to try your hand as a farmer with your own mini farm? Volunteer? Interested in learning more about our CSA program? We have lots of options for you to be involved! Email us below. Let's get healthy and care for our beautiful earth together!
