CSA Farm Software
Manage your CSA without the spreadsheet math.
Skip requests, packing lists, multi-site pickup, and weekly emails — all in one place. No Mailchimp, no Google Sheets, no $99/mo farm platforms. Starting at $0/mo.
The breaking point
It’s Tuesday morning.
You’re already behind.
You’re in the field by 7am. The harvest is coming in. Meanwhile, your phone already has three texts from members who need to skip this week, one who wants to switch pickup locations, and someone who signed up last night and doesn’t know what day to expect their first box.
Your packing list is printed. The spreadsheet is open in another tab. The Mailchimp draft for the weekly newsletter hasn’t been touched since Saturday.
You have 11 members at the coffee shop, 8 at the gym, and 14 for home delivery starting at noon. Somehow this needs to resolve itself before you finish harvesting.
takes the signup
tracks who gets what, and when
sends the weekly email
handles every skip, location change, and “can I start next week?”
Most CSA farms hit this wall around member 50. Some hit it at 20, when they add a second pickup site.
The platform gap
Harvie shut down.
What replaced it didn’t.
In December 2024, Harvie — the platform serving 150+ CSA farms and over 100,000 consumers — closed overnight. Farms mid-season scrambled to find replacements. They largely couldn’t.
150+
farms left without a platform mid-season
$99–299
monthly cost of remaining farm platforms
$0
free-tier options for small CSA farms
What Harvie got right — skip management tied to packing lists, automated weekly communication, multi-site pickup logistics, per-member flexibility — is exactly what we built into Picket. Without the $399 setup fee, the $199/mo platform cost, or the risk of a single vendor pulling the plug.
How it helps
One platform for every part of the week.
Not a generic shop with plugins. Not a $99/mo produce platform. Purpose-built for how CSA farms actually operate.
Subscription Management
Skip requests that don’t wreck your morning
Members manage their own skips, pauses, and pickup changes through a self-service portal. Your packing list updates automatically — no back-and-forth texts, no reprints.
Set per-week capacity caps so you never overcommit a pickup site. Vacation holds, pause windows, and delivery changes all flow through without touching your inbox.
Orders & Packing
Packing lists that update when members change
Your weekly packing list is live — it reflects every skip, add-on, and pickup change right up until you print it. No more cross-referencing a spreadsheet against the email inbox.
Filter by pickup location, delivery day, or fulfillment status. Every order — CSA shares, a la carte, wholesale — in one view.
Multi-Site Pickup
Coffee shops, gyms, and farm stands as pickup sites
Define pickup locations with specific days and time windows. Members see available sites at checkout. Per-location capacity keeps each stop manageable.
Automated pickup reminders go out before each distribution day. Separate packing reports per location. No manual emails, no missed shares.
Weekly Communication
The weekly email, without Mailchimp
Pickup reminders, order confirmations, and customer newsletters are built in — not a separate subscription. Communication is the single highest-leverage retention tool for CSA farms, and it should take minutes, not an hour and a half.
Beyond the Share
Add-ons, preserves, and market extras
About half of CSA farm revenue comes from outside the weekly box. Picket runs an a la carte store alongside your subscription — same checkout, same customer, same dashboard. Hot honey, pastured eggs, herb bundles. No separate Shopify account.
What you’re actually paying today.
Most CSA farms cobble together 3–4 tools. Here’s how that stacks up against one platform that includes everything.
| Picket | The patchwork | |
|---|---|---|
| Online signup & payments | Included | Squarespace $33/mo |
| Subscription tracking | Included | Google Sheets (your time) |
| Member communication | Included | Mailchimp $20–45/mo |
| Multi-site pickup management | Included | Not available |
| Live packing lists | Included | Manual reconciliation |
| Pickup reminders | Included | Manual send every week |
| Real monthly cost | $0–49/mo | $53–80/mo + hours of admin |
Card processing (2.9% + 30¢) is the same everywhere. Picket adds a 2% service fee on Free, 0% on Standard ($49/mo), and 0% on Pro ($99/mo).
Compared to farm platforms.
Farm-specific platforms are closer — but they start at $99/mo, charge setup fees, and weren’t built with flower or small-acreage CSA farms in mind.
| Picket | Local Line | Barn2Door | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $0–49/mo | $99/mo | $119/mo |
| Setup fee | $0 | $0 | $399–599 |
| Platform transaction fee | 0–2% | 0% | 2% hidden |
| Member self-service portal | Included | Limited | Limited |
| Live packing lists | Included | Included | Basic |
| Page builder | 15+ block types | Basic | Templates only |
| Free tier | Yes | No | No |
| Annual cost at $5K/mo sales | $588 | $1,476 | $2,988+ |
Annual cost includes subscription + service fees at $60K/year revenue. Card processing (2.9% + 30¢) excluded — it’s the same everywhere. Picket Standard shown.
Start free. Upgrade when you grow.
Every plan includes subscriptions, member self-service, multi-site pickup, packing lists, and the page builder. No add-on fees.
Free
First season
$0/mo
- 2% service fee
- 15 products
- 30 orders/mo
- 1 delivery zone
- 1 team seat
Standard
Growing farms
$49/mo
- 0% service fee
- 30 products
- 100 orders/mo
- 3 subscriptions
- 3 delivery zones
- 3 team seats
Pro
Established operations
$99/mo
- 0% service fee
- Unlimited everything
- Unlimited team seats
- Priority support
Card processing (2.9% + 30¢) passes through at cost on all plans.
I started building Picket after watching my partner run a flower farm in Baltimore on Square, Squarespace, Google Sheets, and Mailchimp. Then I spent months reading every farmer forum post, academic study, and Harvie post-mortem I could find. The problems CSA farms have aren’t hard to solve — they just need a platform that was actually built around them.
— Eric, founder of Picket
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