Blue Gate Farm
✓ 2026 confirmed📍 CHARITON, Iowa
📦 CSA shares🥚 Eggs🍯 Honey🥬 Produce
| Season & 2026 dates | The farm says it is sold out for 2026 and is taking wait list names. |
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| Farm food | 📦 CSA shares 🥚 Eggs 🍯 Honey 🥬 Produce |
| How to buy | Blue Gate Farm was established in 2005 in southern Marion County, on multi-generational family land. We deliver high quality, delicious, chemical-free produce and farm products for your family year-round. We are Certified Naturally Grown, producing fruits & vegetables, jams, jellies & seasonings, bouquets and handspun/hand-dyed yarns, fibers & fabrics. We run a CSA (20 week vegetable subscription) and also offer year-round, custom online ordering through our VegEmail program. Both the CSA and VegEmail orders can be picked up on the farm or in Knoxville and Des Moines. You can find more info on the farm and sign up for our email list at www.bluegatefarmfresh.com. Choose Iowa lists this farm's products as Elderberries, Apples, Blackberries, Cherries, Currants, Gooseberries, Grapes, Melons, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Raspberries, Strawberries, Other, Edible flowers, Herbs, Honey, Jams / Jellies / Spreadable fruit, Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Collard greens, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leeks, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Mustard greens, Okra, Onions, Peas, Peppers, Potatoes, Radishes, Rhubarb, Squash (Summer), Squash (Winter), Swiss chard, Tomatoes, Turnip greens, Turnips and Zucchini. |
| Practices, in the farm's own words | Certified Naturally Grown, no-spray, pasture-raised, USDA organic |
| Tillage & soil | This farm has not published how it works its soil, so we are not going to guess. If you farm here, tell us and we will add it. See the farms that do say. |
| Prices | Weekly delivery is $700 for the season, with a herb add-on at $90 and a monthly seasonings add-on at $35. |
| Good to know | Payment listed: cash, personal checks, dwolla, dwolla. |
| Address | 749 WYOMING STREET, CHARITON, IA 50049 |
Verification
Last verified 2026-08-28 against these sources:
- chooseiowa.com · https://chooseiowa.com/blue-gate-farm
- chooseiowa.com · https://chooseiowa.com/profiles-directory
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/flisting?lid=200670&directory_type=csa
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/fdirectory_csa/
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