The deadline to claim a voucher and purchase a share has passed for 2022.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Fresh food from local farms
We are thrilled to announce an expansion in partner farm offerings for the 2022 CSA season.
Your 2022 partner farms are: Barr Farms, Black Soil KY, Elmwood Stock Farm, Hickory Grove Farm, Homegrown Direct LLC, Lazy Eight Stock Farm, Old Homeplace Farm, Rolling Fork Organic Farm, Rootbound Farm, Sustainable Harvest Farm, and the UK Organic Farming Unit. If you are an employee on a UK health insurance plan, you can use your voucher to pair with any of these 11 farms.
What is a CSA?
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is like a subscription to a farm. CSA shareholders purchase a share of a farm’s harvest before the season starts and commit to being a shareholder for the entire designated season. In return, shareholders will receive a weekly box or bag of farm vegetables and sometimes fruit and herbs as well.
The UK HR Health and Wellness CSA Voucher program helps make this choice easier for you! As a participant in this program, employees* on a health plan receive either $100 or $200 vouchers toward the cost of a CSA share from one of our partner farms. As a participant in the voucher program, you will receive:
- A box of local vegetables (and occasionally fruits and other farm products) delivered weekly to the convenient pickup location that you choose.
- Opportunities to get to know your local farmers and learn more about where your food comes from.
- Seasonal tips and recipes for the produce in your weekly shares. Join our dedicated Facebook group here and subscribe to our blog here so you never miss a post.
After you claim your voucher, you will receive a confirmation email with a code and a link to instructions on how to use your voucher to purchase a share with your chosen farm.
* Please note this is considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service and will be included as a fringe benefit for taxation on your UK paycheck.
2022 Partner Farms
Barr Farms
Pickup: Jefferson (Louisville), Hardin (Elizabethtown and Fort Knox/Radcliff), Meade (Brandenburg and Rhodelia), and New Albany, Indiana
Season: 24 weeks. Mid May - Late October
Size and cost: Small $552 ($23 per week), Regular $696 ($29 per week), Abundant $888 ($37 per week)
Typical Regular share: 8-10 items. Depending on the season, may include Strawberries, lettuce, kale, chard, broccoli, onions, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, watermelon, winter squash, sweet potatoes.
We're a seventh-generation family farm in Rhodelia. We raise certified organic produce, 100% grass-fed beef, pastured chicken and pork on our 260-acre farm. We believe in healthy food, healthy people and healthy community. That's why we've chosen to farm and feed our local neighbors, including you! Everything we grow is raised with love and care to ensure the best quality and nutrition for our customers and to take care of the soil for the next seven generations.

Black Soil KY - SOLD OUT
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington)
Season: 20 weeks. May 22- October 9
Size and cost: Mini $315 ($14.30 per week) / Half $615 ($27.95 per week) / Full $1015 ($46.13 per week)
Typical Regular share: 8-10 items. May include cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, peppers, green onions, cantaloupe
With a mission of supporting black growers and food producers in Kentucky, Black Soil facilitates your CSA from Travis Cleaver of Cleavs Family Farm in Hart County, who was recently named 2021 Small Farmer of the year by Kentucky State University. Black Soil also promotes and supports many other black-owned art and lifestyle businesses and their events in Lexington and throughout Kentucky.

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Elmwood Stock Farm
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington), Scott (Georgetown), Franklin (Frankfort), Woodford (Versailles), Jefferson (Louisville), Northern Kentucky
Season: 20 weeks. Late May - Mid October
Size and cost: Mini $545 ($27.25 per week), Regular $779 ($38.95 per week), Robust $990 ($49.50 per week)
Typical Regular share: Eight items. Carrots, salad mix, green onions, squash, spinach, broccoli, cabbage, radishes
Elmwood Stock Farm is a sixth-generation family farm situated on 550 acres just outside Georgetown. USDA certified organic since 2000, Elmwood Stock Farm produces wholesome vegetables, berries, pantry items, pasture-raised eggs, poultry and pork, and grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb. Mac and Ann Stone, Ann’s brother, John Bell, and a great support team produce healthy and delicious weekly CSA Farm Shares. CSA shareholders benefit from Elmwood Stock Farm’s many years of growing for CSA, from a well-planned weekly share to the opportunity to swap and add items and the ability to skip a week for vacation from your secure online account. Have your vegetable, meat, flower or egg share delivered to your home, or choose to pick up from more than a dozen community locations.


Hickory Grove Farm
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington), Franklin (Frankfort), Shelby (Simpsonville)
Season: 20 weeks. First week of May-end of September
Size and cost: Small $600 ($30 per week) , Large $800 ($40 per week)
Typical Regular share: 8-12 items. Greens, lettuce, broccoli, peas, turnips, radishes, beets, cabbage, carrots, summer squash, zucchini
Family owned and farmed in Pleasureville since the 1780s, Hickory Grove began their CSA in 2016. Having farmed the same land for over 200 years we feel a great responsibility to ensure that we will still be farming it 200 years from now. Our CSA offers a mix of organic vegetables, fruits, and herbs with an option for adding on pastured poultry, eggs and pork as well as grass-fed beef.

Homegrown Direct LLC
Pickup: On-farm pickup, Fayette (Lexington), and Scott (Georgetown)
Season: 20 weeks. First week of June-second week of October
Size and cost: Peck $500 ($25 per week) / Half Bushel $600 ($30 per week) / Bushel $900 ($45 per week)
Typical Regular share: At least 7-8 items. May include tomatoes, green onion, kohlrabi, kale, radishes, cucumber, cabbage, broccoli, chard, zucchini, yellow squash
With a mission of providing fresh, local, and safe produce for their neighbors, community, and state, HomeGrown Direct has been “local since 1783." Over the past decade, brothers and ninth-generation farmers Jacob and Beckham Sharpe have transitioned their family tobacco farm into a diversified 230-acre farming operation that harvests 45 different crops throughout the CSA season. As a multi-farm CSA, HomeGrown Direct understands that agriculture and community go hand in hand, and they take great pride in their partnerships with other local farmers in their area: Berkshire Farms, Evans Orchard, Gallrein Farms and Cornett Enterprises.

Lazy Eight Stock Farm
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington), Madison (Berea and Richmond), Boyle (Danville)
Season: 21 weeks. Mid May - Mid October
Size and cost: Small $567 ($27 per week), Regular $777 ($37 per week), Extra large $987 ($47 per week)
Typical Regular share: Nine items. Strawberries, Lettuce, Beets, Cherry Tomatoes, Kale, Summer Squash, Zucchini, Green Onions
Lazy Eight Stock Farm is a small family farm located in Madison and Garrard counties along the banks of Paint Lick Creek. We pour our hearts and souls into raising USDA Certified Organic vegetables for our CSA Members, the lifeblood of our farm. We offer a 21-week customizable CSA and host several on-farm events each season for our members to come and share the seasonal bounty.

Old Homeplace Farm
Pickup: Clay (Manchester and Oneida), Laurel (Laurel Co. Library), Whitley (Corbin and Williamsburg), Leslie (Hyden) and Perry (Hazard)
Season: 20 weeks. May 15- September 29
Size and cost: Small $320 ($16 per week), Medium $530 ($26.50 per week), Large $740 ($37 per week)
Typical Regular share: Eight items. Lettuce, cabbage, another green (kale, collards, spinach, or arugula), summer squash and/or cucumbers, green onions, a root crop (turnips, radishes, or carrots), garlic scapes, strawberries in early June or cherry tomatoes in late June
Old Homeplace Farm is a family farm in Clay County. We raise vegetables, flowers, fruits, pork, pastured eggs, and grass-fed beef on the farm, as well as grazing sheep and goats. We care about creating resilience and relationships throughout Eastern Kentucky, and hope we can help you feel good about where your food comes from. The community aspect of CSA is something we take extremely seriously and work to foster through on farm events and our online CSA community (where we share recipes, storage info, and cooking tips).

Rolling Fork Organic Farm
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington), Jefferson (Louisville)
Season: 20 weeks. May 24-October 4
Size and cost: Regular $600 ($30 per week)
Typical Regular share: 7-10 items. Blueberries, Fennel, Cabbage, Basil, Head lettuce, Carrots, Dill, Cucumbers
A USDA-Certified Organic farm in the Forkland community of Gravel Switch. Rolling Fork’s multi-farm CSA offers a mix of produce, fruits and herbs from their own farm and nine additional farms across the Bluegrass, including Salad Days Farm and Casey County Organics (a cooperative of predominantly Amish growers).

Rootbound Farm
Pickup: Jefferson (Louisville), Fayette (Lexington), Franklin (Frankfort), Oldham (Crestwood)
Season: 24 weeks. May - October
Size and cost: Small $648 ($27 per week), Full $864 ($36 per week), Robust $1,104 ($46 per week)
Typical Regular share: Eight items. 2 pounds yellow squash, 1 head of lettuce, 1 bunch of green onions, 1 bunch of beets, 1 bunch of radishes, 1 bunch of curly kale, 1 bunch of carrots, 1 bunch of parsley
Rootbound Farm is a family-run certified organic farm in Oldham County. Our Farm Share (CSA) program is the lifeblood of our farm. Our passion is filling our members' tables with the full bounty of beautiful and delicious local veggies that positively impact their health and the environment. We believe being in a Farm Share (CSA) should be fun - and we prioritize communication, quality and diversity. We provide weekly newsletters and use social media to provide our members with new recipes and storage tips so they can get the best out of every share.

Sustainable Harvest Farm - SOLD OUT
Pickup: Fayette (Lexington), Madison (Richmond and Berea), Whitley and Knox (Corbin), Pulaski (Somerset), Laurel (London), Louisville (Jefferson), and Knoxville, Tennessee
Season: 22 weeks. May-October
Size and cost: Small $506 ($23 per week), Large $660 ($30 per week), Extra large $836 ($38 per week).
Typical Regular share: 6-12 items. Strawberries, Lettuce, Garlic, Cherry Tomatoes, Kale, Collards, Summer Squash, Cucumbers, Radish, Broccoli,
Ford and Amanda Waterstrat own and operate a first-generation family farm that produces a wide variety of USDA certified organic, high-quality produce grown in an environmentally-sensitive manner. They offer individuals, families and businesses highly customizable, nutritious and delicious farm shares that are easy to pick up and are backed with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Ford and Amanda have a passion to help people eat better, reduce food waste and improve their overall health and well-being. Sustainable Harvest Farm strives to provide their customers with peace of mind knowing their produce is grown locally in a manner that enhances our ecosystem yet ensures food safety.

University of Kentucky Organic Farming Unit - SOLD OUT
Pickup: Lexington
Season: 22 Weeks. May to October
Size and cost: Regular, Signup Before March 1: $704 ($32 per week), Signup March 1-30: $714 (32.45/week), Signup After April 1: $724 (32.90/week)
Typical Regular share: Eight items. Lettuce, spinach, kale, hakurei turnips, zucchini, yellow squash, beets, broccoli, herbs, rhubarb
The UK Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project is a part of the Department of Horticulture in the UK College of Agriculture, Foord and Environment and is an integral component of the Sustainable Agriculture (SAG) undergraduate curriculum. The CSA project links the UK community with the Organic Farming Unit located at the UK Horticulture Research Farm. All financial proceeds from the sale of CSA shares support the production of food during the growing season and student educational activities of the SAG program. CSA members are able to visit the farm throughout the growing season for you-pick of select crops (flowers, herbs, berries, cherry tomatoes, peppers, beans, okra, and more) at no additional cost.
