CSAs

I'm looking for interest in Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) or growers already providing a weekly delivery of local vegetables/fruit/meat/eggs. Is the demand for fresh, local food greater than the supply? Would you or someone you know benefit from regular bins of delicious produce?

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn on July 5, 2009 at 9:24pm: Hi Chelsea..

This is quite timely...

You may find this interesting...a colleague of mine's family runs a small mixed farm. I buy my eggs from her- infact quite a few work colleagues do. Her intentions this year was to provide some sort of local box scheme where people in the Bridgewater area could purchase fresh veggies every week to order (depending on what they were harvesting)..

She told me the other day that the box scheme wasn't to be this year simply because they could only barely keep up with the demand from the Farmers Markets ..

So in answer to your question

YES personally I would benefit from buying my veg from a local small producer (doesn't have to be registered Organic (a lot of smaller producers find this financially difficult to do this anyway) but growing along organic principles if possible is preferable)

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn on July 11, 2009 at 6:02pm: Did anyone attend the Bridgewater Farmers Market this week? Wondered whether it was as well received this week as last?

Haven't been myself yet (next Saturday we'll be going) but the talk at work was that people had never seen King Street so busy!

Chelsea- are you thinking of putting together some sort of box scheme? Please put me on your list if you are...have grown nothing this year

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