Does Community-Supported Agriculture Save Money?
What is CSA? –>Community Supported Agriculture, also known as CSA, is where everyday people buy shares in a farm before the fields have even been planted. This money is used to pay for the supplies and labor needed to plant and maintain the fields throughout the season. Harvests are split evenly between the shareholders and handed out on a weekly basis throughout the harvest season. Some CSA’s provide eggs, milks and other products and some allow for half-shares, where you pay half of the amount and receive a share every other week. The CSA concept started in Japan over 30 years ago. After a stop in Europe, the CSA concept came to the United States and is slowly picking up in popularity. Many claim that the “ripen on the vine” vegetables taste better than the produce, organic or conventional, you find in the store. A lot of people enjoy being introduced to produce they’d never pick up in a regular grocery store. The real question: is community-supported agriculture frugal? It really d
