What is the Westcott Vegetable Club?

The Westcott Vegetable Club is a weekly online farm market bringing locally grown vegetables to the hyper-local Westcott community. During the growing season (June-October), we offer online sales with weekly pickup on Wednesday evenings in the Westcott neighborhood. Produce is harvested to-order within a day of delivery.

Is it a CSA?

No! There is no obligation to purchase weekly, there is no minimum order amount, and all orders are custom.

Traditional CSA Programs are structured as a season-long commitment where the customer receives a weekly box of produce from a farm. The expectation is that the farmer provides a variety, but normally the customer does not get to select what is in their box.

The Vegetable Club allows you to order as much as you want, whenever you want, and you get whatever you want.

Do I get to choose what I get?

Yes! Ordering is just like normal online shopping. See what's available, fill your cart with what you want, and check out.

How does it work?

  1. Sign up for the club! Join our email list to be notified of weekly order opportunities.
  2. Make an order! Ordering is just like regular online shopping. Visit our website, add items to your cart, check out, and that's it. Regular weekly ordering is open from mid-day Friday to mid-day Monday.
  3. Pick up your order! Pick up your custom box from 5-7pm on Houston Avenue in the Westcott neighborhood, just south of Levy Middle School.
  4. Hang out (if you want)! Say hi and have a seltzer, or just go straight home if you want. The club is for vegetables…but also for getting to know your community.

Where is the food from?

The Vegetable Club sells food from a network of farms in Central New York. Most of the food is from our small farm in Cato, NY, with select other produce sourced from local partner farms. All of the produce for sale through the Westcott Vegetable Club is grown within organic standards.

Learn more about our farm here.

What produce will you have?

In 2025 we sold over 70 distinct products over the course of the season. These include various varieties of the following items:

Spring: Lettuce (heads and loose), asparagus, radishes, turnips, arugula, kale, chard, collard greens, garlic scapes, cabbages, peas, kohlrabi, bok choy

Summer: Some of the above, plus tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, onions, potatoes, beets, carrots, eggplant, peppers, celery, blueberries, sweet corn

Fall: Much of the above, plus squash, pumpkins, broccoli, daikon, rutabaga, flower bouquets, escarole, radicchio, leeks

Why not just have a farm stand?

Online ordering allows us to harvest, pack, and deliver *only* produce that is already sold. Traditional farm stands and farmers' markets require farmers to guess what they will sell, over-harvest for the sake of creating abundant displays, stand behind a table for an entire day, and then discard unsold product at the end of the market.

Wait, this seems too good to be true! Why don't more farms do this?

Great question! It nearly is too good to be true.

The Vegetable Club model is only possible because of an abundant, built-in secondary market. We help coordinate a farm-to-food-pantry project that purchases unsold produce at wholesale value and distributes it for free through a network of emergency food distribution partners. This model allows a uniquely flexible retail-type experience for our neighborhood customers while also contributing to community food security and virtually eliminating foodwaste. In 2025, literally zero harvest-quality produce from our farm went unsold.

If you think this is pretty cool, so do we! This model is built upon 10+ years of small farm and market experience and relies on deep relationships within the CNY food system.