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Stearns Farm CSA Policy on Splitting Shares
We are aware that sometimes sharers find a full share to be too large for their use and decide to divide their share with people outside their household. We do our best to accommodate sharers and give them the most satisfying CSA experience possible, but we do want to address some of the problems share-splitting has caused in the past.
Sharers are persons who enrolled and paid for a regular share, an alternate week share, or a work-for-share for the current season, plus members of their household. The alternate week share was created to eliminate the main reason for splitting shares (the regular share being too large) while minimizing problems that split shares have caused: overuse of farm facilities (parking lot overflow, congestion at the farm stand), and extra administrative and management work for staff and volunteers.
We do not prohibit splitting shares, but it is important that splitting does not present any extra administrative work for the Farm or extra use of the Farm’s resources. In other words, the split share is something that you do privately, without involving the Farm officially.
If you are still planning to split your share with another household, here are some specific guidelines we ask you to follow:
- Because space for parking and at the pickup stand is limited, we ask that only sharers or their designees—not both—come to the farm on pickup days. As a sharer you may, of course, do whatever you wish with your share once you have left the farm property. But please do not divide it with someone at the stand, in the fields, or in the parking lot.
- You may designate another person to pick up your share for any of your assigned pickup days, but you are responsible for making sure they know how pickup is done. Please ask your designee to pick up your whole share and in the correct amounts.
- For special farm activities (May Day, Harvest Festival, etc.), sharers are welcome to bring non-sharer guests. Parking is limited, however, so we encourage carpooling.
- As a sharer you may ask someone else to do work hours for you. You are responsible for making sure that person signs off on your work hours. Ultimately, it is your job to make sure your hours are completed.
- As a sharer you may ask to have additional email addresses added to your account to receive email notifications (e.g. newsletter notification). Please include the name and address of the person associated with that email. Stearnsfarmcsa.org userids/passwords are only given to staff and sharers, so please do not share this confidential information.
Stearns Farm thanks you for your cooperation in this matter, and we look forward to a great season!
Sincerely,
Stearns Farm CSA
Approved 5/11/08
Revision 2. Last edited Wed 21 May 2008 3:12pm by TomYelton