Seasonal Fruit CSA
Good Fruit. Good People. A Family Orchard, GROWN WITH GRATITUDE.
Since 1905, our family has been growing fruit on over 60 acres of land — four generations and more than a century of seasons, harvests, surprises, and a whole lot of apples.
Joining our CSA is about more than getting a box of fruit. It’s a way to support a family farm and help us write the next chapter of our orchards.
What is a CSA?
CSA stands for community supported agriculture.
At its heart, it’s a pretty simple idea: connect the people who grow your food with the people who eat it. CSA members purchase a farm share early in the season, giving farmers the support and stability to grow for their community. In return, members receive a share of what the farm grows throughout the season. It’s a direct relationship between farmer and eater, and honestly, we think that’s a pretty great thing.
Your CSA membership directly supports our fourth-generation family orchard in Selah, Washington. When you join, you’re helping us care for our trees, support our hardworking crew, and keep doing what we’ve been doing since 1905: growing really good fruit for our community. You can pay for your share upfront or in three installments, and we’ll take care of the rest.
Our CSA is all fruit, which means it’s easy: just open your weekly box and find it packed with fresh fruit from our orchard. We offer four seasons of CSA shares, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring, and members receive their fruit at a discount with convenient neighborhood or home delivery options.
Most importantly, you’re not just buying a box of fruit. You’re becoming part of our orchard’s season. Your support helps keep a small family farm farming, and in return, we get to send a little piece of our orchard over the mountains and into your home each week. That’s Community Supported Agriculture.
how does our csa work?
We use Farmigo to manage our CSA, from sign-up to weekly boxes. When you join, you can choose a neighborhood pick-up site (currently free) or home delivery ($9 per delivery) if we deliver to your area. We have pick-up sites all over the Seattle area, and you can click “Map” on the sign-up page to see them all at a glance. Your pick-up site host will be your friendly local point of contact when it comes time to grab your box.
We typically open CSA sign-ups 1–2 months before deliveries begin. That early support is a big part of how a CSA works and is incredibly important to us. It gives us the funds and the confidence to start getting the season ready, from planning and growing to packing and building all those routes over the mountains.
Delivery days vary by season. Summer and Fall deliveries run Monday through Thursday, Winter runs Tuesday through Thursday, and Spring typically runs Tuesday and Wednesday. Boxes are delivered between 8am and 4pm, although your exact delivery time will vary depending on the route and the day.
And we’ll keep you in the loop along the way. Each week, CSA members receive an email with what’s going in the box, tips for storing your fruit, farm updates, and a little glimpse into what’s happening back at the orchard. It’s our way of keeping all of us connected.
What Fruit Will be in the box?
Our Summer CSA consists of cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, apples and more! It is by far our most popular CSA share due to the wide variety of fruit we grow.
The Fall CSA generally consists of late season peaches and nectarines during the first couple weeks, plus a mix of plums and pluots if weather allows. It is mainly different types of apples and pears for the majority of the deliveries.
Our Winter CSA features various types of apples and pears - we grow over fourteen types of apples, so you can be sure we keep it interesting for our CSA members! We save our most unique and tasty varieties for our winter members.
Our Spring CSA features a mixed variety of only apples. The Spring CSA boxes will most likely contain the same fruit each week. This short 7 week season is a great way to keep supporting our family run orchard until cherry season arrives, plus we allow all Spring members to register first for our Summer season, securing a spot.
We pride ourselves on growing the most unique types of fruit and we only put the best, most fresh and crisp fruit in our CSA boxes.
Our fruit is sustainably grown (we do not have organic certification) and picked to ensure the fruit will ripen on your table so you can enjoy it the best possible moment.
While we do not allow CSA members to customize their box, we offer a “Farmers Choice” subscription that contains the best fruit in season. We also allow members to buy extra fruit through our online farm store at the member discount and have it delivered with their CSA box to their home or pick-up site!
Members also receive a seasonal discount to use at our Farmers Market locations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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At Collins Family Orchards, we pride ourselves on quality fruit and sustainable practices. We have been sustainably growing since 1905. Our livelihood and family has been connected with this orchard and this land for over 120 years; we take our responsibilities as land stewards seriously.
We grow the highest quality fruit in our family-run orchards: we never sacrifice quality for quantity, we pick fruit only when it's ripe, and we continuously trial new varieties.
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Our selection of fruit changes with the seasons so you can expect a lot of variety. Each box will be filled with as many different flavors as the season allows.
We begin our Summer CSA season with some of our most popular items: Cherries and Peaches! As summer progresses, expect to find many types of stone fruits: doughnut peaches, nectarines, white peaches, apricots, and hybrid fruits such as pluots and apriums (half plum/half apricot.) Then as the summer winds down, we get into numerous varieties of apples, pears, Asian pears, and plums.
Our Fall and Winter CSA features a mixture of apples (Honey Crisp, Pink Lady, Jona Gold, Fuji, and more), pears (Bosc, Packham, Asian, Bartlett).
Spring is a mix of apples, and usually is the same week over week. This shorter CSA provides members with early access to sign up for Summer.
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While we previously allowed custom CSA boxes, we found that, logistically, it was extremely difficult and expensive to customize boxes. We also found that our customers prefer our "Farmers Choice" option as you are guaranteed to receive the freshest and best quality fruit.
You can add additional fruit to your delivery by placing an order through our "Farm Store" when you are logged in to your Farmigo account.
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Yes. We kindly ask participants commit to the entire season. To offer some flexibility, we allow our CSA members to place up to 3 delivery "holds" on their subscription at no charge. You will receive store credit for missed deliveries that does not expire.
If a member requires more than 3 holds, any holds must be approved by the CSA manager and those holds will be in the form of redeliveries/make up boxes, not credit.
You can opt our of the CSA and receive a refund if you are unhappy with your experience.
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The $9 weekly home delivery charge helps to cover a portion of delivery costs: gas, vehicle maintenance, insurance, and registration costs to name a few.
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No problem! All orders are packed in a cardboard box and our delivery team will leave your order on your doorstep (or in nearby shade), and pick up your empty box. If you are on vacation, you may put your account on hold or ask a friend to pick it up from your pick-up location. here
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Currently, members can opt to pick up at a neighborhood pick up location for free. In the future, there may be a nominal pick up site charge per season to help sustain the growing network of locations.
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You can log into Farmigo and select the tab "Pick-up Directions" to review the address of your Pick-Up Site or to find contact information for your Pick-Up Site host. If you arrive at your Pick-up Site and don't see your box, please contact your Pick-Up Site host. They will contact the CSA manager if there is an issue. Please always contact your host first before contacting us–we have almost 100 pick-up sites, so it will take longer for us to try and problem solve when you could instead be chatting with your host, who will likely know more about what happened!
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We allow members to place up to 3 holds per season. Remember, part of supporting a CSA is the planning for us to pick, pack and deliver a weekly share to you!
To place a hold, please log into your Farmigo account and select the far right tab, entitled "Delivery Hold," to select the date(s) you would like your box held.
Starting in Fall 2026, any hold placed will be credited to your Farmigo account as Farmigo credits. These credits do not expire and can be used to either pay for additional fruit throughout the season from the Member Store, or it can be applied as an account credit for a future season.
Should a member require more than 3 holds, they must be approved by the CSA manager and will be issued in the form of redeliveries (aka make up boxes).
