{"id":522858,"date":"2010-04-10T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77649"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:59:50","slug":"come-saturday-morning-to-csa-or-not-to-csa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522858","title":{"rendered":"Come Saturday Morning:  To CSA or Not to CSA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77648\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 250px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mikaelamartin\/634754143\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77648\" title=\"634754143_462f7de3c6_m\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/04\/634754143_462f7de3c6_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CSA crop share by Mikaela Martin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dear Firepuppers:  I am perched on the horns of a dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>You see, I love farmers&#8217; markets and I love the idea of CSA shares.  But with only two people in my household, is it worth it for me to get a share or even a half-share CSA?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should back up a bit here, for those folks who haven&#8217;t had their coffee yet and think I&#8217;m talking about the Confederate States of America.   &#8220;CSA&#8221; is short for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.landstewardshipproject.org\/csa.html\">Community Supported Agriculture<\/a>&#8220;.  The way it works is that you buy a share in a CSA farm&#8217;s growing season &#8212; from 12 to 20 or more weeks, depending on where you live and what&#8217;s being grown &#8212; before the season starts; the share price is typically around $400 to $500 for the season, which averages out to around $35 a week for produce delivered weekly.  Considering I can blow $35 on lunches alone in half a week&#8217;s time, this is quite the bargain.<\/p>\n<p>But:  Will I have to put up with mountains of kale every week?  What if I can&#8217;t find anyone to split my share?  What if the farmer keeps sticking me with weird-ass veggies I have no idea how to prepare? What if, what if, what if?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway:  You who CSA already, tell me your stories.  Give me your pointers.  Help me make a decision.  (Oh, and by the way, my husband will let you have all the Brussels sprouts.  He can&#8217;t stand &#8216;em.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=77649&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_77649\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSA crop share by Mikaela Martin Dear Firepuppers: I am perched on the horns of a dilemma. You see, I love farmers&#8217; markets and I love the idea of CSA shares. But with only two people in my household, is it worth it for me to get a share or even a half-share CSA? Maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}