Welcome
Ua tsaug (thank you in Hmong; pronounced ua chao) for your interest in supporting our Hmong farmers! Our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) business is part of a grassroots movement for food sovereignty, land reparations, and racial justice.
Get to Know Us
Friendly Hmong Farms is a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) social enterprise business. We are led by Xia Lor Vang; her daughter, Friendly Vang-Johnson; and a team of volunteers from across western Washington. Community solidarity is what brought us together to create Friendly Hmong Farms, and is embedded in every aspect of how we grow, sell, and share our food and flowers. When we are in solidarity with one another, land reparations, food sovereignty, and racial justice are possible.
What We Are Doing
We are continuing the work that began in 2020, sourcing from 12+ farming families. To honor their contributions, we pay our farmers well above wholesale prices. Our CSA also pays land rent in multiple forms to the Indigenous and Coast Salish people of our region as they are the original stewards of the lands we live and farm on.
We use our own revenue (and your donations) to bring food and flowers to those most impacted by the pandemic, including essential and frontline workers, and Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
By pulling together as a community, we are able to maintain the lowest possible overhead, return the highest margin back to farmers, and realize our vision for food sovereignty, land reparations, and racial justice.
Our sliding scale pay system invites everyone to participate with honor and dignity: those who have more help offset the costs for others; prices are set intentionally to be accessible for fixed or lower-income households; and those who labor as essential and frontline workers receive a discount as an acknowledgement of their work and contributions.
Your purchases and contributions also fund our summer farm intern program for youth that is set to launch this June.
Donations
We joyfully accept donations of any denomination. Please consider making a donation online or sending us a check (so that we may avoid transaction fees). Your donations help keep our overhead low, so we can return the highest margin back to the farmers. We also use your donations, in addition to sales revenue, to run our farm intern for youth and to buy and deliver veggies and flowers to local nonprofits, mutual aid groups, food banks, schools, clinics, and hospitals, or directly to elders and essential, frontline workers. Please note: Since we are not a 501(c)3 non-profit, your donation is not tax-deductible. Each month we will report out on the total donations received from the public and highlight some of the places and people who received food and flowers from us.
Contact Us
If you have questions, would like to volunteer as a pickup host/offer your space as a pickup site, or nominate an organization that deserves food or flowers, please reach out to us through this form. We will be in touch soon. Ua tsaug!
Our Policies
Refunds
Once you place your order for a subscription or a la carte item, we are unable to offer refunds. Our farmers rely on the revenue from your purchase to plan their plantings and harvests. If you are unable to pick up your flowers or produce, we will donate your bouquets or boxes to local nonprofits, mutual aid groups, food banks, schools, clinics, and hospitals, or directly to elders and essential, frontline workers.
Crop Failure
In the event of catastrophic crop failure (pest infestation or plant disease), or prohibitive weather conditions that make planting and harvesting dangerous (e.g. poor air quality from smoke), we will try our best to source our flowers and produce from other local BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color that include Asian and Pacific Islanders) farmers. If this is not possible, then we will issue refunds on a prorated basis.
Holidays
Our farmers will pause the weekends of Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day to recuperate, allow the fields to flourish, and enjoy some much needed rest with their families.