Community Supported Agriculture
also known as CSA Flower Share
What is a CSA Flower Share?
A CSA flower share is a seasonal subscription that gives you a front-row seat to everything we grow here at Bella’s Blooms. By joining, you support the planning, planting, tending, and harvesting that happens on our farm, and in return you receive fresh, thoughtfully curated bouquets made from the best of what’s blooming on any given week. The flowers we use for our CSA are locally and sustainably grown, harvested at peak freshness, and never shipped across the country. It’s the perfect way to experience Erie’s growing season, support local agriculture, and bring a joyful ritual of seasonal beauty into your home.
How Does it Work?
By joining our CSA, you invest in our farm ahead of the growing season, helping us plan and grow a diverse array of blooms just for you. In return, you’ll receive a bi-weekly bouquet filled with seasonal flowers, hand-harvested and arranged with care. Each bouquet is unique, showcasing the best blooms our fields have to offer. With every pickup or delivery, you’ll enjoy the freshest flowers, grown sustainably and with love right here on the farm!
Frequently Asked Questions
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Beyond supporting a local flower farm, including the farm’s cost of seeds, bulbs, and infrastructure investments for the upcoming season, the per-bouquet cost of a CSA is less than the equivalent bouquet purchased individually, and it also includes more blooms per arrangement.
Additionally, our CSA arrangements are filled with the best blooms that the field has to offer on any given week.
Lastly, being a CSA member in any given season comes with various perks, such as vouchers for The Studio, early first dibs on the next season’s subscriptions before they're available to the general public, along with an exclusive invite to our private end-of-season CSA farm tour!
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We offer multiple options, allowing you to customize your CSA experience. These include separate and combined seasons, various size options (wrapped bouquet vs. vase arrangement), and various pickup/delivery options.
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CSA’s for the coming season go live for sale in mid-late November. Our newsletter subscribers receive early access before the general public, so be sure to sign up!
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Yes! Our online store includes options for gift purchases, just follow the prompts and complete all of the requested information. We will even send a gift certificate to the purchaser that can be given to the recipient!
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At the time of the purchase, you will receive an e-mail with a confirmation (check your spam folder if you don’t see anything in your inbox). If you indicate that the purchase is a gift, you will also receive a gift certificate within several days of the initial confirmation.
Next, a countdown e-mail with general information of what to expect will be sent to the recipient of the CSA sometime prior to the beginning of the season (usually a month or two prior to the beginning of the CSA).
Lastly, complete details along with a tentative schedule of the CSA will be sent to the recipient of the CSA several weeks prior to the beginning of the CSA. This tentative schedule will provide the dates on which the bouquet will be ready for pickup/delivery.
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Bouquets will be ready for pickup/delivery on Wednesdays.
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We offer several options for fulfillment, which must be selected at the time of purchase.
Options include:
Pickup at The Studio on our farm (Millcreek)
Pickup at Ember+Forge (Downtown Erie)
Pickup at E. Lane Boutique (West Erie Plaza)
Pickup at Westside Market on Powell (11th & Powell)
Delivery to limited zipcodes
The recipient will receive a text message and e-mail on the morning of their pickup/delivery, notifying them that their bouquet will be ready on that day.
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Unfortunately, we are not able move or reschedule pickups due to the complexity of our carefully planned CSA distribution. If you are unable to make a pickup date, we highly suggest you have a friend or family member pick it up on your behalf or as a gift - friends love being gifted flowers, and gifting flowers is the best! Otherwise, we are unable to make up a date due to a missed pickup.