New CSA for Westchester and Beyond
May 17, 2009
In less than a month I get to start my third year with a share in the Roxbury Farm CSA (community-supported agriculture), and I can’t wait! I know that Roxbury’s Westchester shares fill up really quickly, though, and there are no shares left for 2009.
My Personal Farmers is also starting its third year, as an online farmers market offering produce, meat, dairy, and other products from farms in the Hudson Valley region. I haven’t ordered from them yet, because we enjoy the experience of going to local farmer’s markets ourselves, but the service seems like a great way to eat locally, at home, with very minimal effort.
This year My Personal Farmers is starting its own CSA, delivering to all of Westchester and Putnum, plus some of Rockland County and Connecticut. If you haven’t been able to get in on a CSA share yet for this year, this is your chance. They are accepting members through June 12, and then the share will run from June 19/20 through October 23/24 — that’s 10 weeks of deliveries, every other week. They have a several plans, including one that’s just fruits and vegetables, and others that include eggs and chicken. Plus, you can easily add other local products on to your CSA order — dairy, bread, meats, etc.
Get more detailed information or sign up for a share on the My Personal Farmers CSA site. Let me know what your experience is with them!
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magpie | May 18, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Have you been to Table Local Market in Bedford Hills?
http://www.tablelocalmarket.com/market
It’s pretty good.
I haven’t been yet but I’m looking forward to it! Hoping to go next week. Let me know if there’s anything specific I should look for! — Dara
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Greg | May 30, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I’ve been involved with and committed to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) for years and I’m concerned (and maybe a bit offended) about Mypersonalfarmers Web business representing themselves as offering a CSA when it is clearly just a business ploy. CSA is designed to support a family farm – if you get the “CSA” goods from a bunch of different farms and the farmer doesn’t get his/her full CSA price – it ain’t a CSA. This seems to support mypersonalfarmer not farmers – kind of a rip off.
Hi Greg, it’s not as direct a relationship as buying a share in a farm directly, but certainly it still supports the local farming industry. It’s true, I pay for my Roxbury share by January for the coming season — this gives them capital to buy seeds, etc. before they plant their crops. I have no association with My Personal Farmers at all, but it still seems to me that if they’re acting as middlemen between local farms and a consumer, they’re still helping support the farms. It’s a much looser definition of a CSA, true. But still it’s community-supported (through a middleman) agriculture, no? — Dara
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