It is an alternative model of the food system in that the farmer and the customer share risk. Groundswell farm is a small 3acre certified organic urban farm. Includes sessions with karla panchow bossy acres on social media, chris brockel csa fairshare on building csa coalitions, rachel armstrong farm commons on legal issues related to csa s, pam dawling twin oaks community on crop planning, and michael kilpatrick kilpatrick family farm on. We are a sustainable, nospray, vegetable farm growing in the rich muck soils outside of. May 20 avi miner, cornell cooperative extensiontompkins countyithaca, ny as the movement to eat a more locally sourced diet has grown, food producers have become increasingly creative with direct marketing to reach a larger customer base. Only vegetables that are in season and harvested that same week are seen at a share pickup. Community supported agriculture csa has become popular because of its flexibility, risk management benefits, and potential for close relationships. Farmlogic is a webbased farm record keeping system. By purchasing a share at powisset farm, csa members support the farm, create community, and have access to fresh, local, and healthy produce.
If i am unable to pick up my produce, i can send a friend, neighbor, or coworker etc to pick up my share. With only 2 acres in production, we can achieve a level of quality, taste, and freshness that larger farms cannot match. Administering a csa program requires time, organization skills, and everyones favorite. We cover all areas of farming from raising chickens and goats to mushroom production, and urban farms to business farming. What was just a small business a few years ago has grown, and its all because csawares straightforward back end, user friendly experience, and the friendly help their team has to offer. The changing face of community supported agriculture. Local feed episode 2 may 28 31 groundswell csa internet archive. Find out where your nearest community supported agriculture csa farm is or put your own farm on our map. This is an attractive option for farms who need a simple web site and email management option in addition to their csa software. With farmbrite youll find all the features you need to get better organized, keep better records, manage your resources, track production, identify trends, gain valuable insights and increase efficiency and profits. Groundswell s mission is to help youth and adult learners develop the skills and knowledge they need to build sustainable local food systems.
Want to get the freshest, healthiest food delivered directly from your local farm. We plan virtually all crops around the 20 week csa season. Shes looking forward to sharing her flowers with this awesomely supportive community if youre still interested in signing up theres 4 weeks left. They have over 11 years of csa farm management experience, 3 years at their current location, 4 years at their first farm in new auburn, wi and 4 years starting up and managing a 501c3 non profit farm for the mn food association. Csaware provides the tools to help your csa or food hub thrive. People who join our csa pay an upfront fee for their weekly share of produce.
Start a group in your neighborhood, community, church or office. Blackberry meadows is a certified organic farm located near pittsburgh, pennsylvania. In 2007, we started our csa community supported agriculture operation with 100 members, and are currently growing for 350 summer shares and 100 winter shares. In csa, members buy shares of farm s harvest before the season begins. Mushroom csa addon beginning in 2019 we have partnered with jeremy mcadams of northwood mushrooms from clayton wisconsin to provide a mushroom csa addon for our members. Granular is farm management software that makes it easier to operate and manage a stronger, more sustainable farm. Farm markets and wholesale opportunities comprise the rest. Nifti farm incubator toolkit here new entry sustainable.
The bloomfieldmontclair csa is a group of over 200 members who support the sustainable farming activities of local farmers. Emails to members are done through the software and logged on the farm s blog also on the website. You can now search by entering postcode and also search for different types of produce. Csa membership commitment i wish to strengthen the local food system in boulder county by becoming a member of the red wagon farm csa. Our csa program creates a community between our farm and people, like you, who supplement the farms budget by purchasing shares of the upcoming harvest. Sign up for a customized farm share csa delivered with recipes. Csa payments must be made by electronic check or regular paper check. Csa farms are generally small, familyowned farms that sell their products via farmers markets, coops, and csa membership shares. Jun 10, 20 stoneledge farm in the foothills of the catskills in new york was an early adopter of the csa trend. Gritts gourmet csa weekly harvests for your table gritt. For over 25 years, community supported agriculture csa has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.
Easy to use and powerful farm management software trusted by farmers and ranchers worldwide. The benefits of joining gritts gourmet csa being a member of a csa is more than just getting a share of produce every week. Before harvest, the software aggregates a harvest list for the farmer as well as prints out order labels for the csa boxes. Bloomfieldmontclair csa eat organic, eat local, eat well. In late winter and early spring, interested community members sign up for a share of a particular csa farms harvest during the growing season. How to start a community supported agriculture mother earth.
The full farm csa is a personally crafted, full diet csa program serving portland, eugene, and corvallis, where members choose how much to contribute as well as which products they get each week to create a wellrounded, seasonal diet all yearround. Granular helps farmers break free from spreadsheets and get the analytics they need anytime, anywhere. This year swff is moving away from a traditional csa program and will instead be providing an online ordering system. Archive of the second day of sessions from the 2014 csa expert exchange held march 7, 2014. Payments for the mushroom csa will be made to us for 10 weeks of mushrooms to add on to your farm farm csa share. Community supported agriculture, or csa, connects people who want to source the best food available with a local farm. Beginning farmers offers information on how to start a farm, planning a new farm, funding resources and finding land to start your farm on. Harvie personalized farm share csa shares delivered directly. Signup and pay online, increase weekly sales with online shopping, automate to build your farm business harvesthand csa software was built by farmers for farmers. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm. Shares are pickedup at the farm on monday, tuesday, thursday or friday from 47pm.
Csaware is the cream of the crop in csa management software. Across new york city and connecticut, for almost 18 years, the face that many families have associated with their food is deb kavakos, who runs the farm with her husband. In addition to the produce you will find in your bag every week, you will also find a recipe card tailored to the produce in your box. Harvesthand building local food communities csa software. We are currently not taking any new sign ups for 2020. A csa model of agriculture is a system that connects the producer directly with local consumers. During the spring share we provide a mix of salad greens, herbs, radishes, garlic, bok choy, kale, swiss chard, carrots and as much more as we can. Internships and employment opportunities posted regularly. Youll be amazed at the diversity of selection from week to week. For the last four years, adobe house farm has been a member of the southwest farm fresh csa. We have three pickup sites in northern new jersey, in montclair, bloomfield, and cedar grove. Groundworks farm csa shares for maryland, dc and northern.
Harvest hand integrates csa management software with a template for the farm s web page. We strive to provide our community with access to fresh, healthy, and locally grown organic produce through community supported agriculture csa subscriptions, farmers markets, and local grocery stores. Table of contents tips and ideas to build better csa farms. Choice csa is web based software that allows customers of csa farms to choose what will be in their csa box each week. Farmigo connects independent farms with local consumers. Agsquared is a new software program to help organic farmers with everything from farm planning to everyday operations to recordkeeping to the organic certification process. Easy to use and essential farm management software, farmlogic puts farm records, soil sampling, crop scouting, equipment maintenance records, tank mix calculator and gps field mapping when and where you need it. Csaware is the best and most affordable service out there.
The taste is so powerful in these veggies and its such a huge value. Katie brandt of groundswell farm discusses community supported agriculture. Community supported agriculture csa is a vegetable coop. It is an opportunity to know where your food is coming from and how it is being produced. As one might expect, csa farmers spend the bulk of their timefarming. Jul 25, 2018 alison of flowersmith farm, an incubator farmbased business, hosted her first csa pickup of the season yesterday. They currently grow 9 acres of vegetables for 250 csa members. This will allow you, the customer, to order exactly which vegetables, cheeses, eggs, and meats you would like every week. Through collaboration with area schools, colleges and universities. Adriann divozzo apr 24, 2008 this csa has been so wonderful. We are a sustainable, nospray, vegetable farm growing in the rich muck soils outside of zeeland, mi. It features attractive, userfriendly interfaces for desktop computers and tablets, with smartphone features coming soon. Csa shares for 2020 sold out email us to be on the waiting list. Submit your software to be published or order our current title, california gold rush.
Csa management software brought to you by localharvest. Csa community supported agriculture programs are a relatively new movement in the united states and they strive to create a closer relationship between local farmers and consumers. We are serving members oneatatime, and applying guide tape to the ground to make sure that households waiting in line if there even is a line at all will remain at least 12. Sep 26, 2014 in 1996, the kavakos learned about community supported agriculture csa, through an organic agriculture newsletter. Our focus is providing handson, experiential learning opportunities with real working farms and food businesses in the ithaca area. Reviews for groundswell community farm localharvest. We do not take credit cards due to the additional fee to the farm. They pay in advance which supports their farmer and reserves their share of freshly harvested farm produce. The software farm is a software publisher that is dedicated to publishing healthy, familyfriendly software. Please contact us if you would like to be our csa coordinator. Through granulars scheduling and collaboration tools, teams can get more done, with less. How nice to have the option of a local, organic, womenrun farm with pick up in holland.
Zeeland mi 49464 i am required to pickup my produce at the location that i select, during the times listed. Buy from our farm view all chemical free vegetables cows milk cream and butter fermented items free range eggs fruit goats milk grannies canned goods grass feed beef grass feed lamb home delivery home made bread low sugar jellies and jams nuts and dryed beans and grain pasture raised chicken take and bake items wild caught ferel hog. Find a farm near you hundreds of farmers across north america on the farmigo platform. Were a community of 45 farms and we have a 97% retention rate.