Re: Tomatoes

Betsy Levy (blevy@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 22:49:50 -0500

I hope he won't mind me putting his name out: Phil Gottwals with the Howard
County Economic Development Authority in Maryland is working with a group
of farmers who are planning a combo CSA that will serve members out of a
co-op style storefront. Members will come to the store and "shop for" their
shares in a sort of flexible arrangement that I'm afraid I don't fully
understand. Phil's e-mail is gottwalp@nitnoi.howa.lib.md.us. I don't have
any contact info on the farmers involved.

At 08:55 AM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Cecile:
>
>You need to get in touch with Dan Nagengast, Kansas Rural Center and with
>Rolling Prairie Farmer's Alliance. They have a really neat CSA that
involves 8
>farmers who serve around 350 families in Lawrence, KS and Kansas City area.
>They have spun off some wholesale businesses and so on from this original
>cooperative. The phone number for the Kansas Rural Center is
913-873-3431, but
>Dan's hard to reach there. You might also try the Growing for Market
telephone
>number, because his wife is the editor of that magazine. Good luck!
>
>Mary
>
>Cecile Mills wrote:
>
>> Cass Peterson <cpete@nb.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Some time ago, I read a report from the U of MD on a survey of producer
>> >buyers, including chain and local groceries and institutional food places
>> >(such as prisons and hospitals) on their desire for local produce. Almost
>> >every user said they'd prefer to get local AS LONG AS the producer could
>> >duplicate the services the major wholesalers provide. Steady supply,
>> >standard pack, low prices.
>>
>> The large supermarkets around here give these same reasons, and I am
>> mystified. I found tomatoes from Holland in my local Albertsons (now the
>> largest food supplier in U.S.) this past week. Now that didn't make any
>> sense at all to me.
>>
>> Has anyone any experience with buying clubs or co-ops getting local produce
>> to local consumers who are working and don't get to Farmers' Markets? I'm
>> interested especially in businesses or groups of farmers who market a
>> weekly basket a la CSA but whose contents may come from six farms rather
>> than just one.
>>
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