Daughter of CSA

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Community-supported agriculture is where you buy a share in a nearby farm or group of farms, and every X time interval they bring you - whatever they've got. So sometimes you're buried in Swiss chard, other times you're bombarded with unfamiliar squash, and sometimes there's just not anything you like or aren't allergic to.

Enter Daughter of CSA. (CSAlly?) Would folks here be interested in meeting at, say, Diesel, on, say, Tuesday evenings, to sell your CSA excess to folks like me who have no cars and don't have big enough families to warrant buying a full share? Wouldn't have to be just CSA members, of course; if your back yard has been taken over by tomatoes or zucchini, I'm-a there, paysan.

Anyway, if I get enough nibbles, I'll start a separate community so sellers can post what they're bringing & find out whether any buyers are planning to show up, etc.

Comments

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Please check with your local CSA farmers before doing something like this. CSA members get their produce for a better price than what the farmers make when they sell at the farmer's market, because they pay up front for the whole season. If you re-sell your produce in the neighborhood, you may be undercutting your CSA farmer at the farmer's market.

Trading with friends or giving away excess produce is pretty standard, but the farmers may not be thrilled if you're picking up your share and then re-selling parts of it. Maybe it's okay, but I would ask around before you got going.

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Whoa! I'm not a member, so this is news to me. I was sort of hoping that the opportunity to sell off excess would push a few over the edge into wanting to join a CSA. Could folks who actually belong to CSAs please ask their farmers about this?

Thanks!