Angelic Organics Community Supported Agriculture Farm is seeking homes or businesses in the Chicagoland region (including the Rockford, IL area), such as yoga studios, coffee shops, wellness clinics, juice bars, fitness clubs and other kindred establishments. If you would like to host an Angelic Organics Delivery Site for your community, then this is the application for you.

This delivery site will be located on your premises, will be open to the public, and will host weekly deliveries of fresh, organic vegetables from Angelic Organics Farm plus fruit from June through late fall.

This program is also available to churches and other places of worship that want to host a site and have it be accessible to their greater community. 

Before filling out this application, make sure you have read  Would You Like to Host an Angelic Organics Delivery Site?

Please note that Q17 and Q28 ask for photos of your proposed site.

Submitting this application does not obligate you to host a site.

If your application is approved and the minimum of 20 farm share members is met for your site (if you will be hosting a replacement site, this minimum does not apply), then you, the site host, will receive a $100 honorarium per season if you host less than 75 boxes per week, $200 per season if you host 75 or more boxes per week--for as long as the site is being hosted, the minimum number of farm share members is met and the standards for hosting the site are satisfactorily upheld according to Angelic Organics. The honorarium can only be applied to a share purchase; it is not available as a cash refund.

Thank you for considering hosting a site for Angelic Organics Farm.
Particulars

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* 1. Date

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* 2. Your Contact Information:

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* 3. My site is a

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* 4. Organization Information, if Applicable

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* 5. If applicable, how many members (e.g. members of your fitness club or place of worship) are in your organization at your proposed site location?

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* 6. If applicable, what hours are you open?

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* 7. I understand that in order for my location to become a site, unless it is replacing a site that is closing, there must be at least 20 farm share members who pick up at my site. (50 or more farm share members is ideal.)

Deliveries

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* 8. My site is available for 24 weekly deliveries from June until late Fall, the full length of the delivery season.

Note: Angelic Organics will schedule a regular delivery day for your site between Tuesday and Saturday and a projected time for when deliveries will arrive at your site and for when farm share members will be able to begin to pick up at the site. Some variability in weekly delivery times may occur due to traffic or other developments along the delivery route; therefore some flexibility regarding the delivery schedule is necessary.

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* 9. I understand that Angelic Organics will work with me to find a suitable delivery day and time that aligns with the farm's delivery route sequence.

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* 10. Within how many feet of the site will the delivery vehicle be able to unload?

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* 11. Are there any stairs between the delivery vehicle parking area and the box storage location?

We provide detailed delivery instructions to our driver. The next few questions are in regard to delivering to your site. For your reference, see "Directions to Your Site," "Where to Stack the Vegetable Boxes", "Where to Stack the Fruit Boxes" and the site photo in this example of delivery instructions for our Evanston South on Asbury Site. 

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* 12. Please provide detailed instructions for how our driver will locate your site. Is GPS reliable for finding the entrance to your site? Especially clarify if your site is accessed from an alley, which is unlikely to have GPS co-ordinates. For example, the instructions should lead the driver to the alley that leads to your site (if there is an alley), with a clear description of your site--where the site is located on the alley and on which side, color of building, distinguishing features, where to park, etc.

Be sure to include directions to the exact location where the boxes should be delivered at your site--a specific room such as the kitchen, the walk-in cooler, the office, etc.

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* 13. Does our driver need a key or a code to make the delivery? If so, enter "key" or the code in the comment box.

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* 14. The area where the boxes will be stored is:

We deliver both vegetable and fruit boxes. Both types of boxes are labeled with the individual shareholder's name. The vegetable boxes are usually stacked in their own columns that are separate from the columns of fruit boxes. (The fruit boxes take up about a third to half as much space as the vegetable boxes.) It is helpful for the site host to put signage both where the vegetable boxes will be stacked and where the fruit boxes will be stacked. These instructions are extra important for our driver's first delivery to your site, especially if there is no one at the site to orient the driver when the delivery is made.

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* 15. Where specifically will the driver stack the vegetable boxes at your site? Example answers might be “along the wall to the right, close to the entrance,” “along the north wall of the office, starting at the window” or "in the walk-in cooler."

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* 16. Where specifically will the driver stack the fruit boxes? Example answer might be "to the left of the vegetable boxes."

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* 17. Please upload photos that will facilitate us leaving the boxes where they should be left--photo of unloading area, of street or alley entrance that should be used to access the unloading area, where to park the delivery truck, room where boxes should be stacked, and any other helpful indicators.

Only one attachment is allowed per field, so you may combine multiple photos into a single file (DOC or PDF, for example) or you may use Q18 and Q19 to upload additional photos.

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* 18. Additional file upload:

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* 19. Additional file upload:

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* 20. I understand that my site ideally will accommodate at least 75 boxes, usually stacked in columns of 5 (but a lesser capacity than 75 might be acceptable.) The boxes will be stacked only one row deep, so that the labels that identify the recipients of the customized boxes will be visible with one glance.

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* 21. How many 16"L x 10"W x 12"H boxes can the site accommodate?

Angelic Organics provides a bin to collect returned, flattened vegetable boxes from the previous week's delivery. (The vegetable boxes are re-used by the farm, but the fruit boxes are not.) 

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* 22. There is space for the provided box collection bin.

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* 23. Where will our driver pick up the empty, flattened vegetable boxes for return to the farm?

Pickups
We provide detailed pickup instructions to the farm share members. The next few questions are in regard to shareholders picking up at your site. For your reference, see "Directions to Your Site," "Where to Find Your Box" and the site photo in this example of pickup instructions for our Evanston South on Asbury site.

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* 24. Please provide directions to your site for the farm share members. If GPS is consistent at getting people to your site, then only provide the nearby street coordinates and any other details that you think are relevant for finding your site. Include parking suggestions.

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* 25. Do the farm share members need a code to enter the building where the boxes will be stored? If so, enter the code in the comment box.

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* 26. Describe how farm share members will find the area where the boxes will be stored at your site. For instance, "Enter through the main door and request your farm share at the counter."

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* 27. Do you have any special instructions or requests that you would like us to add to the pickup instructions for your site.

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* 28. Please upload photos of your proposed site, including the entrance to the site. These photos will be included in the pickup instructions for your site. They will probably somewhat overlap with the photos you provided for the delivery instructions.

Only one file attachment is allowed per field, so you may combine multiple photos into a single file (DOC or PDF, for example), or you may use Q29 and Q30 to upload additional photos.

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* 29. Additional file upload:

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* 30. Additional file upload:

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* 31. My site is safe for both the delivery person and the farm share members. For instance, there is no dog that will frighten the delivery person or the farm share members. There are no loose steps or loose floorboards to navigate.

Hosting
We refer to the main person in charge of the community site as the site host.

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* 32. I, the site host, will serve as the liaison between the community site and Angelic Organics. For instance, I will endeavor to let the farm know of any events such as construction, parades, or block parties that might affect deliveries and/or pickups at my site.

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* 33. Once my application is approved, if it is not replacing an existing site, I will encourage my community to become Angelic Organics farm share members, mindful of the quota of at least 20 farm share members to open a site.

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* 34. I understand that if my application is approved  and the minimum of 20 farm share members is met for my site (this 20 shareholder quota only applies to a new site that is not replacing an existing site), I will receive a $100 honorarium per season at the end of the season if I host less than 75 boxes per week, $200 if I host 75 or more boxes per week--for as long as the site is being hosted.

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* 35. If I am not monitoring the site, I will manage the site monitor(s) to make sure that they are adhering to the site monitoring protocols.

Monitoring
Monitoring a site can range from the host being basically hands-off during pickup hours to the host being hands-on, greeting the shareholders and helping them to find their farm share or handing them their share. We realize that in the case of most homes that serve as sites, the availability to interact extensively with shareholders is limited. However, it is important that the host keeps the site clean and tidy.

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* 36. The site monitor will be

The farm share members who pick up at your site will receive a link to the pickup instructions specific to your site. These pickup instructions need to include a phone number and an email address for members to contact the site as needed.

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* 37. Please enter the contact information that you want to share with CSA members who pick up at your site. (Enter "Staff" under "Name of Site Monitor" if several people will be sharing the role.)

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* 38. The site will be monitored during the designated pickup timeframe and the monitor will personally hand out the boxes to the respective farm share members. Each box will be labelled with the name of the farm share member. (This arrangement is ideal, but we understand it will not be possible at most sites.)

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* 39. The farm share members and the public will have unattended access to the room where the boxes are stored.

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* 40. The site monitor will ensure that the site is kept clean and tidy for the shareholders.

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* 41. The site monitor is willing to work out a mutually convenient alternative with farm share members to pick up their box when they occasionally can't pick up during posted pickup hours. If you answer yes, please indicate in the comment box below how you want these arrangements to be made: for example "Any arrangements for holding boxes after the delivery day are just fine with us, as long as they're made on or before the delivery day."

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* 42. After the pickup time is over, the site monitor will make an effort to contact the owners of any unclaimed boxes (the label on each box will have the phone number of the farm share member). If this effort fails, the site monitor may donate/distribute the unclaimed boxes as he or she desires.

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* 43. If farm share members make arrangements with the site monitor for late pickup, the host will keep these boxes in a cool or refrigerated place after the pickup hours.

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* 44. If the site monitor will be absent from my site, he or she will make arrangements for someone else to manage the site in their absence according to the protocols.

Almost Done...

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* 45. If my home or organization becomes an Angelic Organics community delivery site, it will likely be for more than a year.

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* 46. Are you a member of Angelic Organics Farm?

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* 47. Is there anything else you would like us to know about you, your home, your business, or your place of worship?

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* 48. I have read Receive Our Vegetables and Would You Like to Host an Angelic Organics Delivery Site?

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* 49. I am not yet ready to commit to hosting an Angelic Organics delivery site. Please answer the following questions before I decide whether to host the site.

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* 50. I would like to be contacted to clear up the questions above that I have about hosting a site. I prefer to be contacted by:

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* 51. This question only refers to a new site which is not replacing a closed site: Angelic Organics requires at least 20 (preferably 50 or more) people to sign up for an Angelic Organics farm share in order to open a delivery site. Once my site is confirmed, to assist in meeting this quota, I will:

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* 52. I am ready to host an Angelic Organics delivery site. Please let me know if my application suits the needs and aspirations of Angelic Organics Farm.

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* 53. Electronic Signature (please type your name)

You have reached the end of the survey.

Thank you for your consideration of partnering with Angelic Organics Farm.

Remember that our acceptance of your application does not guarantee that your home or your organization will become a community delivery site. If we accept your application, your site will officially be accepted once at least 20 farm share members have signed up for an Angelic Organics farm share with pickup at your site (unless your site will be serving as a replacement for a closing site, in which case the quota is waived.)

We will be in touch after we have reviewed your application.
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