Nalls Crop Share is a year-round weekly subscription program serving Northern Virginia. Members pick up a pre-selected boxes with farm-fresh vegetables and fruit at Nalls Produce in Alexandria.
Our Crop Share program helps you build sustainable healthy eating habits for your family and support local growers. We do the sourcing and the packing, you just come pick up! Each week you’ll find quality and diverse choices in your box to get you thinking outside of the box. Instead of thinking about what to cook for dinner and buying just for that recipe, you start with fresh ingredients and work backwards ensuring you are eating your veggies. You try new things, and new ways to prepare familiar items.
Crop Share runs monthly and will be automatically renewed until you cancel. But we are super REAL people! You can cancel, pause, and skip weeks at any point, though a few reasonable terms and conditions apply.
For just $115 per month, you’ll pick up a peck of fresh produce each week.
We bill monthly, but that’s essentially $28.75* for a crate full of produce with tips and tricks for storing and using it, plus delicious recipe ideas. And you can start any time! Jumping in mid-month? We’ll pro-rate your membership for just the remaining pickups. Twice monthly pickups are also available. And with either option, you can add on milk or eggs (or both) for pickup with your box.
Pickups are Fridays 3-6:30 pm Saturdays 9am – 4pm, year round*, at Nalls Produce at 7310 Beulah Street, Alexandria VA 22315.
Quality is guaranteed fresh through Saturday, so whichever day you choose to pick up, you will have farm fresh produce. Pick-up is easy! Check-in with a team member, return your empty box from last week, and pick-up your pre-paid Share for this week.
*Four pickups per month, select weekends will have no pickup (advance notice and adjusted payments will be provided).
We vary where we source your Shares from throughout the year so we can ensure the most diversity and freshest quality.
December – March – Domestically sourced
April – May and September – November – East coast sourced
June – August – Locally sourced
Most of the produce is not certified organic, but we strive to carry as many “no or low spray” fruits and veggies as possible. Read about the integrated pest management strategies of two of our most sourced farms here and here.
Don’t care for something? Allergies? No worries!
During regular pick-up hours, we provide a “SWAP AREA” where members can freely trade out things that they don’t care for, or just get more of something they really love!
If you just don’t know how to cook something but want to learn, each week we provide recipe cards that correspond to your items.
So try out that strange new veggie or fruit – you just might find a new favorite!
When you join Crop Share, you join a community. You will receive access to an exclusive facebook group where you can share recipes and tips with your fellow crop share members. We LOVE seeing how you use your items
To get a taste of what our group is like, check out #cookingwithnalls on Instagram. We also have member-only gatherings and member-only sales/products for you to enjoy. It’s a great way to eat healthier, and meet your neighbors along the way!
Still Thinking?
Here are some reasons WE personally love our Crop Share for our own families and feedback from our members on why they love it too!
Reverse Engineer Your Meals
Instead of thinking about what you want to cook for dinner, you begin with the ingredients and work backwards. That ensures you are eating your veggies! Thursdays, members receive a preview e-mail with that week’s items so meal planning can begin ahead of pick up. With our Crop Share program, you learn to reverse engineer your meals with helpful tips from us and other members.
Build Healthy Eating Habits
Sometimes we have to retrain our brain into developing healthy habits – Crop Share can be a great trigger. Knowing you’ll be picking up your next box soon, you’ll use more of your fruits and veggies in your cooking each week. You’ll get creative and make fruits and veggies a priority in your recipes and eat healthier all day – think less empty calorie snacking even! Next thing you know, your family is used to lots of fresh produce being in the house and in your meals.
Support the Community
Our produce is sourced as locally as possible while still ensuring quality and diversity throughout the year. We always buy local first when we can, but we also want to give you the best product we can and make sure every box gives you some variety. So, we do supplement with regional (east coast) and national produce (mostly winter months). We also do some fun boxes a few times a year that may be sourced from other areas. Local produce is better for the environment, and just plain tastes better when it hasn’t been shipped around the country. And even when the produce in Crop Share isn’t local, you can still rest easy that your dollars are going to support a small family business. Crop Share revenue isn’t going to some main office miles and miles away, it’s going just down the street – to build our Pumpkin Hill, harvest our honey, or get cupcakes for Penny the Pig’s birthday party.