M.O.M.'s CSA - In Development

["Dave at M.O.M."]

Someone from the neighborhood sent an e-mail query today:

Q.   I would love more information on you upcoming CSA program. I will be at the market tomorrow evening and if there will be someone there with information, that would be great! Hope to see you there.


A.   Thanks for your interest!

Local organic CSA Eaters/Buyers are in abundance (based on KC Food Circle's KCCSAC research and other findings), but M.O.M.'s CSA is still in the planning stages.  Key elements in development are:

• Finding a licensed kitchen in or near Merriam (M.O.M.'s 100-Mile Kitchen)
  
• Coordinating with the manager(s) of the 100-Mile Kitchen to start processing produce from member growers (canning, freezing, drying, saucing, etc...) for sale in the non-harvest months.
• Determining which growers will commit to adding this new task (participating in a year-round multi-grower CSA operation) to their work load.
• Finding a low-rent (not the Merriam Marketplace) site to have the CSA pickup & drop-off.
• Coordinating cost-sharing and minimizing weekly logistical issues (transport, storage, etc...) to avoid over-tasking individual growers.
  

Please find me on Tuesday evening - I'll be near the center of the pavilion selling Bread of Life Bakery goods, Nowachek Honey and My Neighbor Steve's Pasta Sauce. 

If you want an easy way to keep up with happenings at Merriam Organic Market, read (or JOIN) our new, public Discussion Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/merriam-organic-market


Dave Lawrence
Manager - Merriam Organic Market
www.MerriamOrganicMarket.org

"The road to health is paved with good ingestion."
-- David M. Lawrence (2005)

913-620-8427 = Cingular/AT&T Cell & Preferred V-Mail