CSA Pick-Up Locations & Instructions

Valley Flora CSA Pick-Up Protocol:

Our CSA pickup sites are unstaffed, but they run smoothly if all CSA members understand the system. Specific information about each of our CSA pick-up locations is listed below; please read through all of this info and share it with anyone who might be picking up on your behalf throughout the season (friends, spouses, neighbors, etc.). It will help things go more smoothly for everyone at your pick-up site, and for us in the farm office! Most mix-ups happen when an un-informed proxy goes to pick up on someone's behalf and accidentally takes the wrong stuff. Make sure all your people are informed! :)

When you arrive at your pick-up site:

HARVEST BASKETS are packed into these blue bins:
  • All Harvest Basket members and Salad Share members are listed on the clipboard at your pickup site.
  • Harvest Basket Members: 
    • Pack your share out of the blue bin and into your own bag(s) at the pick-up site. Do not take the bin home! If you take your bin home with you, we won’t have enough bins to pack shares into the following week.
    • If you are splitting a share, unpack all of the produce from the bin. Do not leave a partial share in a bin for your share partner (someone else might accidentally end up with the partial share instead of their full share). If you are leaving bags of produce for your share partner, label the bags clearly with his/her name and set to the side.
    • Leave your bin at the pick-up site in a tidy stack. Bins can nest inside one another.

SALAD SHARES:

  • All Salad Shares will be in separate labeled red coolers at each pick-up site.
  • ONLY TAKE SALAD IF YOU HAVE PAID FOR A SALAD SHARE and your name is listed on the cooler and check-off sheet.
  • Be sure you take the correct size bag. There are half pound shares and full pound shares, usually in separate coolers. Be sure you read the labels/signage on the coolers! 

If you will be out of town, arrange to have a friend pick up your share. Please forward them the info on this page to ensure we don't have any mix-ups! Unclaimed shares will be donated to a local food pantry after the designated pick-up time. 

If you need special arrangements please be in touch with the contact person for your pick-up site, listed below. We'll do our best to accomodate you if at all possible.

Thank You!

 

PICKUP LOCATION DETAILS

Bandon

Location: 980 2nd St. SE, Bandon, at Well Within Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic. Located next door to the Wool Company.

Time: SATURDAYS, 10:30 am - 5 pm. First pickup: June 1st, 2024
Contact: Zoë Bradbury DeSurra - Email  or text 541-551-0314
Details:

  • Pick-up will be on the shady south porch of Well Within Acupuncture and Herbal Clinic.
  • Please do NOT stack empty bins on the wooden benches on the porch. Make a tidy stack on the porch floor.
  • The pick-up will be unattended. Please follow the general guidelines outlined above in order to keep the site tidy and running smoothly.
  • Please find parking on 3rd street, NOT in the clinic parking lot. Clinic practitioners are seeing patients on Saturdays and we need to leave the parking spaces for their patients.
  • We strongly encourage you to pick up your produce as early as possible on Saturdays, after 10:30 am, to ensure freshness. We cannot be held responsible for any produce that goes missing from the porch after 5 pm on Saturday. We do not advise waiting until Sunday to pick up your produce; things have disappeared from the porch overnight in the past. Unclaimed shares will be donated by 4:00 pm on Sunday.

Coos Bay

Location: 353 S 2nd St, at Coos Head Food Co-op
Time: WEDNESDAYS, 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm. First pick-up: 29th, 2024
Contact: Coos Head Food Co-op, main number: 541.756.7264
Details:

  • Pick-up will be inside Coos Head Food Co-op.
  • Store staff will be there during pick-up hours to help members claim their shares.
  • If you miss your pickup, contact Coos Head Food Co-op directly at the number above and they will kindly hold your produce in their walk-in cooler until Thursday.

 

Port Orford

Location: Port Orford Community Coop, 812 Oregon Street
Time: SATURDAYS, 8:30 am to 5 pm. First pick-up: June 1st, 2024
Contact:  Coop: 541-366-2067; Zoë Bradbury DeSurra, Email  or text 541-551-0314
Details: 

  • Pickup will be behind the back loading dock of the co-op on the east side of the building. CSA totes will be left in the shaded "porch" between the two small sheds at the north edge of their parking lot.
  • Harvest Basket Members: after you have emptied your tote, please leave empties in a tidy stack. Thanks!
  • We strongly encourage you to pick up your produce as early as possible on Saturdays, after 8:30 am, to ensure freshness. We cannot be held responsible for any produce that goes missing from the shed after 5 pm on Saturday. We do not advise waiting until Sunday to pick up your produce; things that were left overnight have disappeared on occasion. Any produce that is still unclaimed by Sunday morning will get donated to the co-op. POCC is not able to offer late pickups from their cooler due to space and staffing constraints.

Valley Flora

Location: Valley Flora, 94938 Floras Creek Road, Langlois (1.5 miles up Floras Creek Road near our Farmstand)
Time: WEDNESDAYS 9 am - 4 pm. First pick-up: May 29th, 2024
Contact: Zoë Bradbury DeSurra - Email  or text 541-551-0314
Details:

  • Directions: At mile 1.5, Floras Creek Road takes a 90 degree turn to the right and crosses Floras Creek. Immediately afterwards you will see a pull-out on your LEFT.
  • Park nose-in in the pull-out. Please DO NOT drive into the field and DO NOT block the farm entrances.
  • Pickup will be under the large, shady spruce tree on the west side of the road, across from the parking area, near our field greenhouses.
  • The farmstand and u-pick will be in operation this season between 11:30 and 2:30 on Wednesdays, so parking could be more limited during that window.
  • Please stack empty bins next to the packout table. Thank you!
  • Unclaimed shares will be taken back to our cooler after 4 pm (often not until 5 pm). We ask that you do your very best to pick up during our designated pickup hours each Wednesday, but if you can't make it you can pick your share up from our cooler until Friday morning at 10 am. Any shares unclaimed by Friday will be donated to the Common Good foodbank in Port Orford.