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.
When you sign-up for our CSA, you support our farm by paying upfront (or in three-installments) for our fruit–and we deliver a weekly box of farm fresh fruit throughout one of our four seasons: Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring.
By enrolling in our CSA, you’re supporting us directly–all of the money you spend goes directly to helping us care for our orchard and pay our hardworking crew. Our CSA offers you the opportunity to support a local farm, buy fruit at a discount, and conveniently have it delivered directly to you. No middlemen involved–just us and our delicious, local, and sustainably grown fruit straight off our trees in Selah, WA!
how does our csa work?
We use Farmigo to manage our CSA. Select a pick-up site option (currently this is free) or select home delivery ($9/delivery) to have your box delivered directly to you. *Home Delivery is not available in all neighborhoods. We offer many pick-up site locations throughout the Seattle area. Click on “map” on the signup page to view all pickup sites as pins on a map.
We open sign ups usually 1-2 months in advance before deliveries start. This is because we need the funds to get everything set up, which is why your support up front is super important to us!
We offer weekly delivery on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays during our Summer and Fall seasons. For Winter, we delivery Tuesday - Thursday. For Spring, we typically delivery Tuesday and Wednesday.
Deliveries are made between 8am-4pm, but the actual time varies depending on the route and schedule.
If you select a “pick-up site” option, you will have a host that will be your point of contact for picking up your box.
CSA members receive a weekly e-mail that includes information about what fruit is going in the box each week, how to store fruit, and farm updates.
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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CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Joining a CSA connects mindful "eaters" with local farmers through a reciprocal relationship. Participants purchase a "farm share" (also called a membership or subscription) early in the season. Members receive a wide variety of produce throughout the growing season AND farmers get paid fair prices for growing sustainable food for a local market. It's a win-win.
Collins Family Orchards offers an "all fruit" CSA, its easy just open the box and enjoy!
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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. 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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Description text 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.
