David and Barb Perkins bought their farm, Vermont Valley Community Farm, seven years ago, in August 1994. Since then, they’ve grown the 40-acre southern Wisconsin farm to a 500-member CSA, one of the largest in the nation. “We knew we wanted to farm 15 years ago, but just didn’t know what to do on the […]
The CSA model in which the consumer shares the risk of production with the farmer presents each farm with a tricky situation – how do we share the reward, if there is one in good times. This might seem straightforward, except when the reality of “too much food” sets in. We have seen time and
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My partner, Rachel Bynum, and I were interested in starting a farm. After several years of working for Chip and Susan Planck at Wheatland Vegetable Farms in Purcelleville, Virginia, we thought we knew enough about growing and selling vegetables to do it as our only job and enjoy it (we were right). Unfortunately, the more
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