Frequently Asked Questions

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Members purchase a share and receive weekly flowers in return. Shares range in season, duration and price. This ensures flowers for dedicated customers and supports farms in a consistent way. You can check out the CSA shares we offer here.

Our CSA means more than just selling our flowers. It allows our members to be a real part of our farm. They are the reason we organize our season’s crops, sowings and harvests. Having a planned CSA means we do not waste anything we grow nor do we have excess with no sales outlet. This method is great because flower friends never miss out and our farm is able to grow each year by running our operations in a lean, principled and efficient way. You can read more about why we love our CSA model here.

Most of our flower friends become members of our seasonal CSAs. We occasionally have abundant times when we also offer bouquets a la cart and we will notify our mailing list. We also hope to offer events and other limited sales in 2022. You’ll always be in the know when you’re on our mailing list!

CSA members can pick up their flowers at our farm in Gardiner or at Lagusta’s Luscious in New Paltz. Preferences must be given at time of sign-up. CSA distribution for 2022 is on Wednesday afternoons around 3pm at both locations. Flowers are held at Lagusta’s until closing that day and in Gardiner until the next day. Occasional a la cart bouquet sales are typically Gardiner pick up only.

Enjoy them!

Our members have come up with so many different ways to enjoy their weekly flowers. For some, they are the focal point at their dinner table and they enjoy admiring the new varieties each week. Other members enhance their work atmosphere with their arrangement. Our CSA members use their weekly flowers to learn more about botany or have a still life for painting or drawing. You can press them, dry them or make other floral creations each week. One of our favorite uses is when a member chooses a different friend or family member to gift their bouquet to each time. They are great to have on hand for stopping by a friend’s house, being a dinner guest, to gift to clients or teachers or valued customers of your own. In fact, you can purchase a share for yourself and gift a bouquet when the mood strikes, or you can gift a whole share by including the recipient’s information with your order.

We worry about those things, too! We strive to grow as naturally and simply as possible. One of the main reasons we started Alchemy Farmhouse was because we spent years avoiding mass-market flowers with their environmental, ethical and health concerns. It made us so sad to eschew beauty and feel like a downer telling our friends and family what was really in their supermarket bouquets. Finally, after 20 years of backyard growing, we decided to increase our productivity and bring the kind of flowers we felt good to share into our community with our flower CSA. We are growing the same way we always have, whether it’s for ourselves or for our neighbors: with the Earth at the forefront. We are proud to be part of the increasing number of local and sustainable cut flower growers in the Hudson Valley and the United States, where an astonishing 80% of consumer flowers are imported. We hope you will become a member and be a part of the local flower movement, too!

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