Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
I Want My Money Back
After 7 boxes, waiting for my CSA to improve, I requested the remainder of my money back.
I thought in being patient I would see the boxes balance out a little… but instead they got smaller and items that I was expecting would be left out.
Organic farming must be difficult.
I was expecting more from this farm, but I think it may be too enterprizing to keep regular CSA customers feel as though they are getting their money’s worth.
Sorry Coon Rock, I just can’t support the science experiment. And I love science!
I hope people don’t turn on the local food thing. Though, this situation brings up lots of great blogging topics- Can local food keep up? Should we all just diet a lot? Do I eat too much? Should I stop feeding my friends?
Can you see my questions getting more ridiculous?
The last 5 weeks I have gone to the grocery store 2-3 times a week. I don’t buy quantity, I just think this method helps me waste less food (my biggest pet peeve). But, I have opted for the frozen isle many times and imported food in most cases.
So this makes me think, was organic so important to me? Maybe not. I subscribed to Britt Farms previously - they were local and used pesticides when necessary. I went to the grocery store only once a week or two- for tofu or garlic. Supporting a local farming family who kept me a very happy customer was enough for me. Does my food have to be organic? It would be nice, but we have to start somewhere. And local should have been good enough for me.
By requesting my money back, I know I can go to the farmer’s market and really go around and get what I want. In addition to shopping at local co-ops. I still admire Coon Rock’s extensively organic farming methods, but I just don’t want to be a customer for the remainder of the season. It has been an overall, a dissatisfying 7 weeks.
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I hate that this one has worked out so badly. They must be having a really rough year. I was pretty shocked at what you received for this week’s share, though.
It astonishes me how many blogs I see on the internet, where no one apparently has anything better to do than chronicle their eating habits and/or publicly discuss their dissatisfaction with food sources.
I have belonged to a local farm’s CSA for many years now. There are good years and bad years, bountiful times and meager times. Part of the point of purchasing a membership in a farm is to support that farm through good and bad. When you buy into a CSA, you make a commitment to support the farm nd farmer through at least one growing season - not a couple of weeks, to then back out because a first few spring boxes did not fill your refrigerator.
Yes, the farmer also has a commitment to do his or her best to provide a bountiful harvest each week. But no farmer can control every force of nature that affects the harvest. There will always be some lean times. There probably would have been some plentiful harvests as well, had you given it more than a couple of weeks.
And yet, Anne, your astonishment has you continuing to read more food sites? Sorry, I don’t get your point with your first paragraph.
Like I said in my comment responding to Richard’s letter that was posted…7 weeks is a fair shake. She did kind of say that she realized it wasn’t for her - the ups & downs - and maybe buying local was sufficient for her needs. Maybe when someone is trying to save money and take care of one’s health by eating organic, one realizes they can’t also shoulder the expense & greater good of supporting a farm through its meager times. Just a thought.
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