The pandemic shutdown forced Urban Roots Farm in Newtown Square to rethink its business model. 

When many restaurants closed in 2020, they no longer needed the farm’s produce. Urban Roots, created in 2017, shifted to a CSA, writes Kathleen E. Carey for the Daily Times.

The shift worked so well they had to double the farm to 26 acres in 2020 and install unheated greenhouses to grow seeds.

Urban Roots runs its Delaware County CSA from June through December. Up to 250 members pay $45 a week to get a weekly allotment of food and other items.

.Other items are available from local producers at the CSA as well, including bread, chicken, eggs, beef, and cheese.

Everything offered by the Delaware County CSA is organic.

Post-pandemic, Urban Roots still sells to restaurants, including Zahav, Middle Child, Vetri, Her Place Supper Club, Helm, and others.

“We sell a lot of the tomatoes to a sandwich place called Middle Child,” said farm manager Matt Danelutti.

 “We’re the ‘T’ in their famous BLT,” added Urban Roots administrator Erica Burman.

The farmers also sponsor meals in Yeadon and donate food in Chester and to food banks.

See what farm fresh deliciousness is being grown at Urban Roots in Newtown Square in the Daily Times.