Community Ties: Creating Your Own CSA
September 29th, 2011 at 12:00 am (Uncategorized)
Community Supported Agriculture has become very popular in providing consumers with local home grown food directly from farmers. A CSA is beneficial to both the consumers and the farmers and helps everyone to support local small businesses. Creating your own CSA is rather easy. The first thing you need to do is contact some local farms and find out what types of products they can offer your group. Decide if you will be dealing with just fruits and vegetables or if you want fresh meats too. Once you have decided the basics it is time to draw up a contract with the products and prices on it and distribute to the members of your group interested in participating. Advertise your new group by handing out fliers and speaking with people at local farmers markets or even in the grocery stores. Designate a location and time where you will be distributing the food to everyone and collecting the money. You can do it weekly or monthly it all depends on what the members of your group want. Keep a good relationship with the farmers you use and make sure they update you on the newest crop selection they have available so you can inform your group.