Jun 1, 2016
What if you are already selling at farmers markets, but you
don't have enough of a diversity of products to design a CSA
around?
If that's the case one option might be create a collaborative
CSA.
The collaborative CSA allows you to expand your crop variety with
competing with other farms and without diluting down your efforts
on your farm. You grow what you grow best in your context, and
source everything else from other farmers who are better setup to
grow those specific products. It creates a win/win situation for
you and the other farmers. Everyone grows what they grow best, and
in theory sales go up. It's also a win for the consumer because
they now have concentrated access to more local products, without
having to sourcing these producing individually from each
farmer.
Aggregators, collaborative CSA's and food broker models, are these
models perfect? No. But if they give you options. And if you are
having issues moving product, then more options might be better
than less options. You just need to look at everything and figure
out which combination is the best fit for you and your market.
In today's show we'll look at some alternative market streams for
selling your vegetables, so to help you start thinking outside the
box, so you can sell more boxes, of vegetables.
It's currently May 2016.
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