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

Interesting idea

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering correctly Tuesday night is already a pretty big night at Diesel, no?

Tuesday night seems to be a pick pickup night for CSAs, so people might not have a chance to fetch produce and swing by Diesel on the same night?. So you might want to take that into account when you deal with picking a day. (CSAs I can think of: Parker Farms (Tuesday in Davis, Thursday in Porter, also has bicycle delivery this year), Brookfield Farms (Thursdays near Porter), Luna Farm (Tuesdays near Powderhouse School)

(It never occurred to me I needed a car to get a share; I just pick my share up in my backpack most weeks, and there are other CSAs

Re: Interesting idea

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

I just picked Tuesday out of a hat - anything but Monday would work for me. Wednesday sounds like it might be good? I'm hesitant to pick Friday since so many people want to par-tay, but maybe Thursday would work later in the evening? I usually don't get out of work until late anyway. Not ruling out weekends either - any opinions on that?

I've emailed Wainwright Bank, who are right across from Diesel and have a nice community room for their customers (like me) to use for things they consider appropriate, so that might be an option as well. I just picked Diesel because I like it, not because I know what the schedule's like - I certainly wouldn't want to pick a night that it was packed! So those are both juicy chunks of information - thanks.

Re: Interesting idea

[turil.livejournal.com]

Alas, the community room at Wainwright is only available to non-profits that have business accounts at the bank, not individuals.

Re: Interesting idea

[redcolumbine.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. Thanks for the clarification.