Renewal, members first
Last year sign-ups opened to members in November and to everyone else on January 1. With nine in ten coming back, that renewal is most of your 2027. On Farmhand it’s one page: their share and pickup site already chosen, a payment plan at checkout and Farm It Forward right where they pay.
- Members firstRenewal opens to current members on the date you pick.
- Payment plansMembers choose one at checkout instead of emailing you to set it up.
- Farm It ForwardA gift on the renewal page, while members already have their cards out.
- January 1Open spots go to your waitlist, then to everyone else.
Help a neighbor join at a sliding-scale price this spring.
Share price is from your 2026 Spring CSA. The member and payment plan are examples.
Credits that stop where the share does
You asked Ari for this in September: members can’t order more credits than they paid for, but can still add things for $. Every share carries its 7, 10 or 14 credits a week, and anything past them checks out as a paid add-on on the same order.
- The storeOpens Saturday at noon, closes Sunday at 5, like now.
- Five of somethingWhen you only have five, the store stops selling at five.
- No orderMembers who don’t choose get a farmer’s choice share.
- HoldsMembers hold a week by Sunday at 5 and pick the make-up week or a double share.
Example items and add-on prices.
Monday’s harvest list, already added up
You only harvest what you sell. On Farmhand the weekend’s orders total into one list by crop, with every Wednesday and Friday site packed from it.
- WednesdaysCary, Apex and both Raleigh sites, in Wake County.
- FridaysDowntown Pittsboro, Bynum, Briar Chapel and the farm.
- Two schedulesWeekly and every-other-week members land on the right weeks on their own.
- A week offOne schedule change moves that week for everyone on both schedules.
- Salad mix52 bags
- Carrots41 bunches
- Spring onions36 bunches
- Strawberries44 quarts
Example date and numbers. We’d set it up from your real pickup sites and crops.
The off-season, by text
You told Ari ordering by text sounded like a game changer for the off-season. From January to March and again in late summer, one text goes out with what’s ready, and members order from the link in it for pickup at the farm. It takes the place of the weekly availability form.
- Off-seasonPre-orders for farm pickup, sent by text.
- Running lateYou drive every box. One text reaches everyone at that day’s sites.
- NewsletterFarm news and recipes go out from the same place members order, so Mailchimp can go.
- Everything elseOur team answers your members seven days a week.
In Good Heart FarmThis Friday at the farm: salad mix, carrots, sweet potatoes, garlic braids and tea blends. Order by Thursday noon: shop.farm/ingoodheart
Just ordered, see you Friday!
Wednesday, April 28Cary and Apex are running about 30 minutes behind today. Your boxes are on the way! Patricia
No rush, thank you!
Example messages and link.
Your CSA page, with sign-up built in
Right now the Cost page links out to two separate sign-ups, and the spring one is broken. The waitlist is a Google Form and the season calendars are Google Sheets. This page explains the CSA once and goes straight to sign-up.
Scroll inside the frame. Prices and pickup sites are from your current site. Questions are examples.
In Good Heart FarmYou choose what’s in your share every week
Nutrient-dense produce from North Carolina’s first certified organic farm, for about 150 households in Apex, Briar Chapel, Bynum, Cary, Pittsboro and Raleigh.
Four share sizes
Spring season, 14 weeks. Payment plans available at checkout.
Small
7 items every other week$315Regular
7 items every week$574Large
10 items every week$784Extra Large
14 items every week$1,064Pickup sites
Growing on the soil Bill Dow built into North Carolina’s first certified organic farm.
Ben Shields and Patricia Parker have farmed this land outside Pittsboro since 2016, growing over 100 crops year-round for their CSA.
Questions
Spring 2027 opens to members first
Join the waitlistMoney in before January
Gift cards are live on Farmhand. Your salves, teas, herb blends and garlic braids already make good gifts, and a card toward a spring share is one more. The buyer picks the day it arrives by email, and the money comes in this month.
Happy holidays from the farm
Use it toward a spring CSA share, or salves, teas and garlic braids.
Use your giftFarm It Forward, where members pay
Ten to twenty percent of your shares go to sliding-scale members, and support for it lives on a separate GoFundMe. On Farmhand it sits inside the store.
- At renewalA gift line on the renewal page.
- Every weekAn add-on next to the salves and garlic braids.
- Sliding scaleMembers join with a code you give them.
Example gift card email.
Moved before renewal, with no one dropped
Your 150 members, their share sizes and pickup sites come with you. We build your 2027 seasons alongside what you use now, you check it, then renewal opens on Farmhand.
Members get one email and text from you with how to log in.
- CSA sign-up and member accounts
FarmigoFarmhand- Waitlist
Google FormFarmhand- Off-season availability
Google FormFarmhand texts- Season calendars
Google SheetsEach member’s schedule- Newsletter, email and text
MailchimpFarmhand- Payment plans
By emailAt checkout- Farm It Forward gifts
GoFundMeAt checkout
What it costs
Business Pro is the plan built for a CSA your size: sign-up, the weekly store, unlimited email and text and $1,000 of marketing credit. Join this fall and the credit renews in January, so your first year comes with $2,000.
- Farmhand Business Pro
- $200 a month
- Marketing creditA renewal campaign, holiday gift card push and member emails
- $1,000 when you join, $1,000 each January
- Farmhand service feeCovers support and unlimited email and text
- 3% of online sales
- Card processingBoth fees can be passed to members at checkout
- 4% card, 1% ACH
- Switching
- No contract or setup fee