The Gorman Difference

The way it should be…

Always Fresh & Healthy
Always Top Quality
Always A Great Family Experience

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We are primarily a CSA farm, and only open to members throughout the harvest season. This means that, our primary focus is on the member experience and the highest quality crop production.

We provide up to 50 different crops and up to 100 varieties. We have been recognized for high rates of yearly CSA member retention. We have long term happy customers, who return year after year. We provide “Members Only Pick Your Own Flower and Herb Garden” complimentary with each membership. As Members you may leave each pickup with a bouquet of fresh flowers and herbs.

We cherish our reputation and work hard to uphold it. We strive to create a phenomenal experience and value potential for our members.

It is important that you make a confident decision with your purchase. You should feel great knowing that OUR CSA works for YOUR lifestyle. We only want your business if it is good for you!

Your Gorman Farms CSA Membership provides you with additional benefits that are hard to beat when joining a CSA program.
  • “Market Style Pickups” – choose your produce from our farmer’s market like displays.
  • Gorman Farms CSA shares are not packed in a box.
  • Exclusive access to our “Members Only Pick-Your-Own Flower and Herb Garden” – Interactive and exclusive to CSA Members only with seasonally available flowers, herbs and select veggies.
  • Most members leave with a bouquet of flowers and fresh herbs at each pickup. Comes complimentary with your membership.
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Gorman Giving Back

Participating in Gorman Farm CSA is not only providing the means for a farm in our neighborhood but it is also giving back to the community.

Any crops, not selected each week, are donated to the Maryland Food Bank and other local food pantries. (Our members don’t feel badly if they can’t make it from time to time or don’t like certain vegetables that are offered.) Click here for more information.

  • Diverse variety throughout the season.
  • Support a healthier lifestyle through a better diet.
  • Keep your kitchen well stocked with high quality local food.
  • Membership access to fresh and nutritious foods.
  • Members receive only our produce and produce from partnering farms; not products from outside sources.
  • Support local agriculture.

Additional Information

  • Out of town – No Problem
  • Can’t make it this week – No Problem
  • Don’t like certain crops – No Problem
  • Your food will not be wasted. You can let anyone pickup on your behalf, or skip any selections and know that you just gave back to those directly in need.
  • No Permissions Needed for changing your pickup day when life throws you a curve ball.
  • Long Pickup Windows for those who cannot come until later.
  • Click here to learn how not to worry if you can’t use it all, all the time.
  • Our offerings at each week’s pickup are abundant in quantity and diverse choices.
  • We provide a way to trade out different selections and choose from someone else.
  • Walk away with a bouquet of flowers and herbs at each pickup, a complimentary add on to our program.
  • Market Style Pickups are set up like a farmer’s market in a beautiful old barn.
  • Often, we offer an “Choice Section” of extras and abundances you can select, in addition to your share.
  • When crops peek in their normal life cycle, we will offer large quantities that can be preserved.
  • Extend your value way beyond the growing season by freezing, canning, fermenting and drying.
  • In 2023, we distributed 191,000 lbs of organic produce to our Summer CSA Members. That’s nearly 96 tons!
  • Last year, Full Share received roughly $1100.00 worth of retail produce for only $980.00. Medium Share’s ratio was proportional to this as well.
  • Your zest for preparations will enrich your palette and your home with the happiness and bonding experiences of creating great food and eating meals together.
  • Broadening your horizons with the connection between nutritious foods and the health of your family.
  • We purposefully indulge you in those intensive periods of abundance within the harvest.
  • Our members have found a new relationship with their health and food by having access to a consistent supply of nutritious food.
  • We offer a variety of produce that includes many staple favorites of our modern diets.
  • Most members fall in love with new things that they never would have tried before.
  • Your health and kitchen experience may benefit greatly.
  • This CSA is an education of high quality, sustainably raised food and a rich experience. It will put you in touch with seasonal eating and how our bodies were made to feel.
  • The CSA fosters wellness, creativity, and trying new things.

I came from years with another CSA. This was a far superior experience. Quality, quantity and price were top notch.

Carole K.
Columbia, MD

Loved the ability to take overage, particularly when it was something we used a lot of. Loved the trade table, too.

Connie M.
Fulton, MD

The quality of the produce provided by your farm is excellent. As soon as I turn down the dirt road to do my pickup at the end of a busy work week, I feel myself decompressing. I find such joy in seeing the mounds of produce in the barn and filling my bags with it! I also loved the strawberry boost this year. It was great to go out into the fields after being stuck in the office all day. The jam that I made from the strawberries brightens up a dark winter day.

Kim M.
Ellicott City, MD

This experience was, from start to finish, fantastic! Enrollment was easy and the option for staggered payments of our account balance made it more doable. All of the communications and interactions with or from the farm were friendly and helpful. Pick-ups were well facilitated and both the variety and quality of the produce were exceptional.

Celia D.
Ellicott City, MD

Really have a great selection of high quality produce. I love the swap and overage table to enhance my experience and get more of the veggies/produce I use most often. Meet alot of nice people on pickup day and trade recipes or share helpful hints....it really feels like a community.

Kathy P
Savage, MD

I loved the whole concept of eating local farm food. Appreciating the time and effort that goes into food is a wonderful experience. Teaching my daughter that eating local can be exciting and delicious. Our experience has been wonderful!

Sheila M.
Burtonsville, MD