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HARVEST BOX CO-OP

Six farms fill one box, and the box has your name on it.

This is Harvest Box Co-op, in Wichita. Six farms grow it and I put it together. Swap the beets you won't eat. Add the eggs you will. Grab it on your way home. (Grown-ups: the fennel can go. Nobody has to know.)

Market and pickup
Saturdays, 8 to 11 AM
This week
Swaps close Thursday, 8 PM
Start a share, from $28 a weekWe take SNAP/EBT
HARVEST BOX SIX BENDS FARM, ROSE HILL KS Family box Oct 5
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Week of Oct 5

Family box, 1 of 2 swaps used

Red and yellow apples piled in a wooden bowl
Honeycrisp applesPrairie Rose Gardens
x6
Small orange pie pumpkins in a bushel basket
Pie pumpkinsSix Bends Farm
x2
A head of curly green kale growing in the field
Curly kaleSix Bends Farm
Swapped

7 more items, your eggs included

Family box$36.00
Egg add-on$6.00
Double Up match, produce−$18.00
On your EBT card$24.00
Box
Market
Pickup
Account
Swap, add, lock it in
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Choose pickup

Week of Oct 5, pick one site

Street map of north-east Wichita out to Andover with the three nearest pickup sites pinned © OpenStreetMap contributors
Riverside Saturday Market1100 W Riverside Ave, 1.2 miSat 8 to 11am
Andover Community Lot412 E Central Ave, Andover, 6.4 miSat 9am to noon

7 more sites within 10 miles

SelectedRiverside Saturday Market
Box
Market
Pickup
Account
Pick your pickup spot

This week's box, and the four sizes it comes in

26 weeks, May 2 to October 31. Pay by the week, by the month, or up front for 5% off. Late August, the greens flop. Every year.

The list goes out on Monday

Same week, every week, first box or thirtieth. Sign up on a Wednesday and a welcome text pings straight back: your pickup site, your pass code, your first pickup date.

Monday

The list lands in the app. Swap two things, or skip the whole week, until Thursday at 8 PM. Hate fennel? Out it goes.

Tuesday

Nothing from us. Last week's squash is still looking at you.

Wednesday

The farms read your swaps. Then they pick the rows to match. Snip, pull, thump.

Thursday

Swaps close at 8 PM. East Wichita and Derby hand out boxes 4 to 7 PM.

Friday

The farms pack every box and write a name on it. Yours too. If the kale didn't make it, I text you and say so.

Augusta 4 to 6:30 PM, Rose Hill 3 to 7 PM, home delivery 2 to 6 PM.

Saturday

Riverside 8 to 11 AM, under the yellow tent. Andover 9 AM to noon.

Sunday

The farms rest. So do I. The kids count next week's eggs.

Whichever day your site runs, show the pass code in the app and the box is yours. Stuck at work, send a friend with the code. Running late, we hold every box two hours.

Skip a week
Any week, as often as you like, by Thursday at 8 PM. A skipped week costs nothing.
Pause
Up to four weeks in a row, for a trip or a wild stretch. Then the box comes back by itself.
Cancel
Weekly and monthly plans end with one tap. Season plans refund the weeks left, less 5%.
Map of Wichita and the towns to its east and south with six Harvest Box pickup sites marked, from Riverside in Wichita out to Augusta and Rose Hill Riverside market East Wichita Andover Augusta Derby Rose Hill © OpenStreetMap contributors
Home delivery

Within 8 miles of downtown Wichita or Andover. Fridays, 2 to 6 PM. $5 a box, and free for pay-what-you-can members.

Nine pickup spots, plus your front door

Riverside Saturday Market1100 W Riverside Ave, WichitaSat 8 to 11 AM
East Wichita church lotN Rock Rd at 13th St NThu 4 to 7 PM
Andover Community Lot412 E Central Ave, AndoverSat 9 AM to noon
Augusta library lotState St, AugustaFri 4 to 6:30 PM
Derby rec centerN Baltimore Ave, DerbyThu 4 to 7 PM
Six Bends farm standRose Hill, on the farmFri 3 to 7 PM

Three more sites live in the app. A box waits two hours past close. Then it goes to a neighborhood food pantry, and somebody else gets a very good dinner.

SNAP/EBT, doubled by Double Up Food Bucks

EBT works at every pickup and in the app. Spend a dollar on fruit and vegetables with your card, and Double Up Food Bucks adds a dollar to match. Up to $25 a day.

That makes a $36 family box of produce $18 on your card. Eggs, cheese and bread go on the card at full price.

Twelve shares each season are pay-what-you-can. Members pay for them by rounding up. Ask by phone. There is no form.

One family box, paid with SNAP

Family box, produce$36.00
Double Up match−$18.00
Dozen eggs$6.00
On your EBT card$24.00

Who grew your carrots

All six are within 40 miles of a pickup site. Want to meet the hens? Call (316) 555-0175 and I'll set up a farm visit.

Garlic, beets, carrots and spring onions laid out on wooden crates at a market stall
Market crates on a Saturday: garlic, beets, carrots, spring onions.

Six Bends Farm

Rose Hill, 18 miles from Wichita

Marta and Joe Kaufman, farming since 2011

Greens, squash, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and most of your box in summer.

12 acres, no synthetic sprays, cover-cropped every winter.

Prairie Rose Gardens

Augusta, 21 miles from Wichita

Dee Hartley and her son Cal

Apples, peaches, pears and fresh herbs.

Low-spray orchard. You can pick your own on September Saturdays.

Cottonwood Dairy

Newton, 27 miles from Wichita

The Froese family, three generations

Eggs, cheddar, farmer's cheese and whole milk.

Pasture-raised hens moved to fresh grass every week.

Little Walnut Bakery

Andover, 14 miles from Wichita

Sam Ortiz, baker

The round loaf, sandwich bread and fall hand pies.

Kansas-grown wheat milled in Salina, baked Friday morning.

Sandhill Greens

Haven, 38 miles from Wichita

Priya and Nate Collier

Lettuce, microgreens and spinach, spring and fall.

Grown in two high tunnels so greens run into December.

Three Pines Orchard

Mulvane, 22 miles from Wichita

Ray Dominguez

Plums, blackberries and cider apples.

Family orchard, sprayed only when a pest shows up.

Drawn plan of the Saturday market lot: six farm stalls along two rows, the Harvest Box pickup tent at the entrance off Riverside Avenue, an EBT and info table, parking to the west and restrooms in the shelter house Parking W Riverside Ave entrance Six Bendsvegetables Prairie Rosefruit, herbs Cottonwoodeggs, cheese Little Walnutbread Sandhillgreens Three Pinesplums, cider Harvest Box pickupshow your pass code EBTand info Shelterrestrooms

Saturdays under the yellow tent

Every Saturday, May to October, 8 to 11 AM, at 1100 W Riverside Ave, Wichita. Park free on the west side of the lot. Look for the yellow tent by the entrance. That's pickup.

On the tables Oct 4

  • Last peaches of the year from Prairie Rose
  • Pie pumpkins, 80¢ a pound
  • Fall hand pies from Little Walnut, $5
  • Cider pressing demo at 9 AM, Three Pines
Call (316) 555-0175 Get directions