Our Commitment to Our 2018 CSA Members:

15 weeks of CSA. We’ll plant and cultivate lots of great food for your family for a 15-week season from June 22nd through September 28th.

Fridays 10am-noon. We’ll provide welcoming spaces on the farm each Friday morning between 10am-noon for family harvest sessions.

Communication. We’ll communicate regularly with signs on the farm and through our member newsletter about what is in season, where to pick, how to harvest.

Education. Kristen will provide personal, friendly education each Friday morning, answering questions, demonstrating how to harvest, and suggesting recipes.  

This option is listed for the convenience of families who are splitting a project share with another family. If you're doing this, please fill out the application separately, note the name of the family you're sharing with, and add this Split-Share to your cart for checkout.

Buy a farm credit for $100 in advance of the season, and we'll give you a 10% bonus. We'll keep a farm card on file for you to buy whatever you'd like from Raindance in late summer and early fall 2018. 

• Cost per share is $100. 
• If signing up before May 1, 2018, you will receive $110 credit (a 10% bonus!) to purchase anything we sell at the farm or market stand.
• You purchase what you wish from us when you wish with your credit. We will host Saturday morning sales at our growing location-- the Dyer Family Farm in northeast Ann Arbor-- in August and September. We also invite you to visit us at the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market at Kerrytown on Wednesdays during our garlic season.
• Benefits include CSA member-only time at our annual sale (date to be determined), the option to pre-order garlic braids, an invitation to the CSA family potluck (date TBD), plus extra love from us.
• Deadline for 2018 sign-up is May 1, 2018. Limited Garlic Shares available.  

This is the answer for folks who want an annual supply of beautiful locally-grown, organic garlic all at once! You'll receive one diverse collection of heirloom garlic in September 2018. We planted 30 varieties of garlic for 2018, and our CSA members will receive all the generally available varieties plus a few of our trials that are not available at farmers' markets!

The Whole Box CSA cost is $50. You can expect to receive a gorgeous selection of garlic bulbs for fresh use and winter storage. 

Details about pickup, delivery, or shipping will be emailed to you in late summer 2018 after our garlic crop is lovingly harvested, cleaned, cured, and bundled for you.

German Red is a full-bodied, strong and spicy garlic that reliably produces large, satiny white and purple heads. The easy-to-peel cloves are wrapped in fawn colored skins.

Rocamboles have thin papery wrappers and large cloves making them easy-to-peel in the kitchen and also short-storing (through December). 

Killarney Red Rocambole garlic has a strong, nutty flavor with thin, mahogany clove wrappers that are easy to peel. 

Rocamboles have thin papery wrappers and large cloves making them easy-to-peel in the kitchen and also short-storing (through December). 

Purple Italian Rocambole garlic is as beautiful as it sounds and has a medium garlic flavor that is excellent for baking. It averages 7 cloves per bulb and peels easily.

Rocamboles have thin papery wrappers and large cloves making them easy-to-peel in the kitchen and also short-storing (through December). 

Spanish Roja is a large-sized rocambole hailed as the archetypal garlic flavor. It's strong, hot, and spicy with large cloves-- about 8 per head. 

Rocamboles have thin papery wrappers and large cloves making them easy-to-peel in the kitchen and also short-storing (through December). 

Ann Arbor Porcelain garlic is the garlic that made me fall in love with growing garlic. I shared it with my neighbors. I mailed it to my uncle in Colorado. The joy I found pulling this beauty out of the ground each July-- during our mid-summer garden harvest lull-- made me want to grow this tenacious plant with my children and share it with my community. Porcelains typically store through December, but I've kept this variety hanging on its stem in my kitchen through May.

Porcelain garlics are famous for having only 4 or 5 cloves per head. That means less time peeling in the kitchen! In testing porcelains are the densest garlics and research scientists identify them as a superior medicinal garlic. Porcelains store through December.

German Extra Hardy Porcelain garlic is one of our happiest garlics. Good ol' Michigan winters get along with this hardy variety very well. Our summer 2017 yielded lots of huge, heavy bulbs, so we have high expectations for our summer 2018 harvest. 

Porcelain garlics are famous for having only 4 or 5 cloves per head. That means less time peeling in the kitchen! In testing porcelains are the densest garlics and research scientists identify them as a superior medicinal garlic. Porcelains store through December.

Romanian Red Porcelain adds a long lasting hot and spicy bite to any dish.  It has an excellent flavor with a strong nutty after taste. Its heat and fiery flavor compliment Mexican dishes, and it is the perfect partner to ginger in Asian dishes.  Use this garlic to make hot barbecue sauces, marinades, pickles, and relishes.

Porcelain garlics are famous for having only 4 or 5 cloves per head. That means less time peeling in the kitchen! In testing porcelains are the densest garlics and research scientists identify them as a superior medicinal garlic. Porcelains store through December.

Music Porcelain is the allium family's gift to cooks-- large cloves wrapped up in a pink package. Music's slightly spicy flavor is hot raw and sweet roasted. 

Porcelain garlics are famous for having only 4 or 5 cloves per head. That means less time peeling in the kitchen! In testing porcelains are the densest garlics and research scientists identify them as a superior medicinal garlic. Porcelains store through December.

Elephant Garlic is not garlic! It's a bulbing leek that people love for its mild flavor and massive clove size. Mild, onion-like flavor and more palatable than many garlics to some people when used raw. Huge heads with large cloves that caramelize well. Elephant garlic grows beautiful white scapes that remind us of the Allium flowers people plant as bulbs in town.  Elephant garlic is a very long keeper and a good way to round out your local organic garlic supply to last through spring when green garlic is back again!

We first became interested in Siberian Purple Stripe garlic when I saw it advertised at the Ann Arbor Kerrytown Farmer's Market as an immune booster. In one garlic study Siberian was found to have the highest allicin content of its competitors. Allicin is the compound in garlic that supports normal cholesterol levels, boosts the immune system, and enhances circulation.

Purple Stripe garlics are hardnecks (which means great flavor!) and they're also beautiful. Stores 6-7 months.

This beautiful purple bulb from the Republic of Georgia is know for its mild, creamy flavor when cooked. Bulbs average 7-10 cloves. Chesnok Red won “best baking garlic” in taste tests conducted by Rodale, Sunset Magazine, Martha Stewart and others. 

Purple Stripe garlics are hardnecks (which means great flavor!) and they're also beautiful. They store well for 6-7 months.

Bogatyr Marbled Purple Stripe was originally picked for seed stock at a market in Moscow, Russia. It tastes mild at first but then bites with a bit of heat at the finish. Bogatyr yields smaller bulbs, but has only 5-6 cloves in most heads, so the dark brown-purple cloves are large. 

Purple Stripe garlics are hardnecks (which means great flavor!) and they're also beautiful. 

Inchelium Red Artichoke has a mild flavor and scored the highest rating in Rodale's test kitchen. Hailing from the Colville Indian Reservation in Inchelium, Washington, this garlic is a large and beautiful artichoke variety. They lack symmetry, but are very photogenic. Inchelium Reds have large heads with four or five layers of cloves and up to 20 cloves per bulb.

Artichoke varieties are large softnecks that grow easily and multiply quickly.  Their chalky feeling, irregular size, and shaped cloves (12-25) are arranged in a random pattern with 2-5 clove layers.  Artichokes mature earlier than most hardnecks and are extremely long storing, often lasting through spring.

Lorz Italian Artichoke is one of only three garlic varieties listed in Slow Food's Ark of Taste, a catalog of delicious foods facing extinction. Slow Food has been instrumental in educating the food-eating and food-growing community about the importance of biodiversity as an essential tool in creating a healthy environment and defending our future against climate change. We grow Lorz Italian and the two other Ark of Taste garlic varieties in support of Slow Food's mission. We want to preserve diverse garlic genes.

Artichoke varieties are large softnecks that grow easily and multiply quickly.  Their chalky feeling, irregular size, and shaped cloves (12-25) are arranged in a random pattern with 2-5 clove layers.  Artichokes mature earlier than most hardnecks and are extremely long storing, often lasting through spring.

Italian Late Artichoke has a pleasing, rich garlic flavor. It's bulb is tight, with light-colored wrappers over fat round outer cloves. Good for braiding. 8-12 cloves/bulb. Lasts until the New Year. 

Artichoke varieties are large softnecks that grow easily and multiply quickly.  Their chalky feeling, irregular size, and shaped cloves are arranged in a random pattern with 2-5 clove layers.  Artichokes mature earlier than most hardnecks and are extremely long storing, often lasting through spring.

Applegate Artichoke is a superb mild and richly-flavored heirloom garlic. It is a great choice for garlic or any dish where you want just a a touch of garlic flavor. Averages 12-18 cloves per bulb.

Artichoke varieties are large softnecks that grow easily and multiply quickly.  Their chalky feeling, irregular size, and shaped cloves (12-25) are arranged in a random pattern with 2-5 clove layers.  Artichokes mature earlier than most hardnecks and are extremely long storing, often lasting through spring.

Creole Red Artichoke is a winner of many taste tests and is the only creole variety we have for market in 2018. 

Creoles have excellent flavor, great for raw use in salads and marinades. They also have magnificent bright pink red clove wrappers and store exceptionally well.  Creole varieties grow small bulbs in northern climates like ours, but are extremely long storing, often lasting through the next year's garlic harvest.

Silver Rose Silverskin is a beautiful color and one of our two longest-storing garlics. We grow a ton of it because we want to keep our local, organic garlic in our kitchen until the next garlic harvest twelve months later. It 's a very clean garlic with little after taste. Rosy-skin bulbs have both large and small cloves. Our garlic mentors, Dick & Diana Dyer, told us Silver Rose was the surprise ‘hit’ at Ann Arbor’s Local Food Festival in 2011.

Silverskins are a softneck garlic are among the latest varieties to mature and be harvested each July. They are excellent for braiding and we love to see their cheerful beauty hanging in the pantry in the doldrums of Michigan winters.

Idaho Silver is a variety we're introducing to our farm in 2018 in our search for great long-keeping garlic. The bulbs are a beautiful creamy silver color with reddish-pink cloves hiding inside. It is mild and sweet when baked.

Silverskins are a softneck garlic are among the latest varieties to mature and be harvested each July. They are excellent for braiding and we love to see their cheerful beauty hanging in the pantry in the doldrums of Michigan winters.