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Originally Posted by joseph
I did CSA for a while. I hated being in debt!!!! I much prefer the farmer's market, because I can pick what is ready to be picked. I don't have to feel bad if all I have this week is lettuce. I don't have to feel bad about crop failures. If it's raining on harvest day, I can take a rain-day break which I could never do with a CSA. I hated all the wasted food with a CSA... At the farmer's market I never see the food that gets wasted. I often saw wasted food while making CSA deliveries. I like the social interaction of a farmer's market better than that of a CSA.
I estimate that it would take a 36' X 36' plot per CSA share. ...
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100% agreement! Thought I was the only oddball thinking that life is too short for CSA "debt".. e..LOL
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Why not just sell what you grow after you have grown it??
Especially to get started!