FINDING AND KEEPING YOUR CSA MEMBERS

You might have heard the term CSA, but what does that have to do with farming? Well everything for the small farm. CSA, community supported agriculture, is in a sense a buy in for residents to assure good quality, locally grown and easily accessible fruits, vegetables, eggs or even fish. But from the farmers view it is an unnerving prospect because every year you can loose as much as 55% of their

Shareholder bags ready to be picked up.
Photo by Carla Snyder

shareholders. That is a large chunk of a business to loose. You might be wondering who are the shareholders? Shareholders are those in the community that purchase that small farm's, urban farm's product. How can a farm survive if you have to spend your off season planning how to recoup that lost business when you should be planning for your first plantings. Read on - this little article from the Cornell Small Farms Program:

http://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2014/10/06/finding-and-keeping-your-csa-members/