Details of Sophia’s Pantry CSA Partnership

Sophia’s Pantry 2026 CSA Season 1 is planned for 12 weeks, from June 4 to August 20.

Any changes to this schedule will be communicated to our CSA partners.

Each week, partners will receive a pre-sorted share of the harvest via pickup at a designated “drop” location and time. Weekly shares will include 5-8 different items.

Shares come in three sizes:

• Large Share ($441 + $20 one-time fee)
  for 4 people or 2 if vegetarian/vegan
  At signup: $20 fee for sustainable packaging materials; then $147/month for 3 months, charged at the end of each month
• Medium Share ($315 + $20 one-time fee)
  for 2 people
  At signup: $20 fee for sustainable packaging materials; then $105/month for 3 months, charged at the end of each month
• Personal Share ($189 + $20 one-time fee)
  for 1 person or 2 if eating lighter or fewer at-home meals
  At signup: $20 fee for sustainable packaging materials; then $63/month for 3 months, charged at the end of each month

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There is no restriction or extra charge for multiple households to go in together on a share.

Drops will be Thursdays from 4:30 – 6:00 pm at:

• Grace Baptist Church, 4200 Dover Road, Richmond, VA, 23221
• St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 12291 River Road, Richmond, VA 23238
• Sophia Farms at Laurel Branch Farm, 15233 Gatewood Road, Dinwiddie, VA, 23841
• the Battery Park area of Richmond, 23222

For any weeks when partners are not able to pick up their share at their usual drop, they can arrange for that week:

• to pick up at another drop location,
• 
to designate someone else to pick up their share, or
• to donate their share via Sophia Farms’ regular tithing and the Share-a-Share Project (see below)

For any week when a partner is a “no-show” and has not made any arrangements, the share will be donated. If a partner must drop out during the season, Sophia’s Pantry will transfer the share to an individual designated by the partner or will donate the share for the season’s remaining weeks.

If you have any questions, please contact us at csa@sophiafarms.org.

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What to Expect in Your CSA Share

Season 1 shares begin with cool season vegetables and transition to warm season vegetables. Season 2 shares begin with warm/hot season vegetables and transition back to cool season vegetables. Weekly shares will include 5-8 different items.

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The Share-a-Share Project

Participate in Sophia’s Share-a-Share Project and become a partner in collaborative and transformative food justice initiatives! You can purchase a full share, half a share, or a quarter of a share to donate. In our weekly CSA picking and packing, we combine all donated shares and deliver them to our Richmond and Dinwiddie partners working directly with people experiencing food insecurity.

Our primary partner in the Share-a-Share Project is Richmond-based Underground Kitchen Community First.

From Underground Kitchen Community First:

“UGK Community First was born out of The Underground Kitchen’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. When the pandemic shuttered our experiential dining business, we pivoted to meet a deeper and more pressing need: providing nutritious, unprocessed, home-cooked meals to underserved and vulnerable communities across Richmond.

In the process, we also created opportunities for displaced hospitality workers and culinary professionals by uniting food relief and workforce development under one mission.

Our work today is rooted in the belief that food is medicine, culture, and connection. Through a series of innovative programs, we are building sustainable, community-driven solutions to food insecurity while investing in local talent and infrastructure.

UGK Community First is thrilled to partner with Sophia Farms. This is a collaboration rooted in a shared vision: to ensure our neighbors facing food and nutritional insecurity have consistent access to fresh, healthy, and whole foods. By partnering with Sophia Farms, we are not only addressing urgent community needs, but also contributing to the sustainability of our local food system by providing a reliable revenue stream for local farmers. This partnership enables us to expand our impact across our key initiatives, each of which benefits directly from the fresh produce and values-aligned mission of Sophia Farms.”

To learn more about their mission and work, you are invited to visit https://www.ugkcommunityfirst.org.

Your donated share is considered a cash donation and is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The Share-a-Share Project works in harmony with Sophia’s commitment to our core value of tithing of our produce. A portion of our tithe goes to the Colonial Heights Food Pantry and Dinwiddie Food Bank. Tithing enables Sophia to partner in food justice work in areas both locally to our farm in Dinwiddie County and locally to the majority of our CSA customers in the greater Richmond area.

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What is a CSA?

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) refers both to a particular model of selling produce, but at a more fundament level CSA also refers to the philosophy underpinning the model: a partnership between a farm and the community local to that farm. In a CSA model, partners purchase a CSA “share” prior to the produce season. These pre-paid subscriptions fund the operating costs for the farm season, and partners receive a weekly share of the farm produce in return.

The CSA philosophy emphasizes the interrelationship between a farm and a community and asks partners to share directly in both the costs and the returns of a farm’s work. Yes, as a partner you share in the farm’s risk, but you also share in the farm’s success. And that success is to partake of seasonal produce, grown locally through environmentally regenerative practices, harvested at the height of ripeness, nutritious and flavorful.

Why become a Sophia’s Pantry CSA Partner?

To receive a weekly share of seasonal produce, with all the benefits of vegetables that are:

• healthier, better tasting, and longer-lasting than grocery store vegetables
• grown with sustainability-focused practices and organic-based methods, from our fertilizer to our packaging materials
• benefitting the earth’s climate through aspects such as reduced “food miles” (distance food travels from origin to final destination)
• cultivated in harmony with regenerative agriculture principles that emphasize the well-being of the land, those that work on the land, and those that eat from the land
• directly supporting the farmer, in this case Sophia Farms (and Sophia Seminary)

To support the life and work of Sophia Theological Seminary:

• Sophia Farms has been established to fund the operating costs of Sophia Theological Seminary
• the relationship between Sophia Farms and Sophia Seminary recognizes God’s first commandment to be stewards of creation; food connects humanity to creation and to God, and agriculture is a resource for God’s work in the world
• students, along with faculty and volunteers, contribute their labor to the work of Sophia Farms, including Sophia’s Pantry CSA, thus students “fund” their seminary tuition and housing
• Sophia tithes (10%) from its produce to local food ministries

As a CSA partner, each Thursday morning of the season, you’ll receive the Sophia’s Pantry email, “Just Picked,” which serves as a reminder to swing by and pick up your share and also includes useful information about the week’s share and what is happening on the farm.

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