Over the course of the season, weekly shares vary in size and produce type, reflecting the local growing season and conditions. Typical CSAs offer an average of 10 pounds of produce per week over the course of the season. This varies from about 5 pounds early in the season, including lettuce and early greens, to perhaps 20 pounds per week in the late summer. Feed-back from customers reveals they are more satisfied with a wide variety, rather than a large quantity of vegetables. Producers generally plan to distribute 5-12 types of produce each week.
Members like to have as wide a variety of vegetables distributed throughout the season as possible.
However it is best to survey your customers to know their preferences. Try not to have the same vegetables in the box each week for longer than four weeks. For the last distribution of the season, some producers make a very large delivery of root crops and winter squash for storage. Remember to tell members how best to store this produce. Many CSA producers use farmers' market produce prices when calculating market value.