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TL;DR: Their heart is in the right place, but their produce is over-packaged and EXPENSIVE…read more Osage Gardens Farms is representin' at most of the local seasonal Farmer's Markets in the area. Sunday in Basalt, Tuesday in Glenwood Springs, Fridays in Eagle and at the Carbondale Saturday Market YEAR ROUND in front of Crystal River Meats right off Main. Not only do they sell a large variety of organic produce, they also sell numerous regional foodstuffs like pasta, coffee, dairy products and more. Osage Gardens has a really flexible Community Supported Agriculture program. Most CSA's just give you a box of whatever produce they have on hand, Soviet style. With Osage Gardens, CSA membership is more like a gift card. You can buy whatever you want from their farmer's market locations or at the farm store and the amount is deducted from your share, along with a discounted price. Rather than dealing with the hordes of wealthy mountainistas who descend on the farmer's market like locusts to buy choice ingredients for "dinner parties" (whatever those are), we prefer to take a nice drive out to New Castle and buy directly from the farm store. CAVEAT EMPTOR: If you do not use all of the money in your CSA account before the season is up, it is forfeit. They do not allow it to be applied to the following season! Also, there are several other options to buy produce and starts in the New Castle area off I-70.

The store is very small, but has a nice selection of quality produce, dairy and breads. If you can…read moreget to the plant sale (they had one Memorial Day Saturday, but they may have others), you will get some amazingly healthy veggie starts. The varieties that they had were amazing, especially for the tomato plants!