Farmers should take vacations. I know it’s a bit of an oxymoron, farmers and vacations. But leaving the farm every so often can make you a better farmer. To leave, you need to plan, be efficient, and train employees — all things that increase the sustainability of the farm. So in late September, we left …
Ask what Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is, and you’re likely to get an answer like this: CSA is a way of purchasing directly from a farm, where you pay for a season’s worth of food up front. This gives the farmer cash in the off-season, and as an incentive for paying early, you get a …
Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is booming right now. As COVID-19 puts pressure on the food system, more and more people are turning to local farms for safe, dependable food access. At the same time, farmers who once relied on wholesale accounts are finding themselves scrambling with restaurants closed and those sales channels either paused …
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