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Re: can CSA provide a living?



Well of course all business have the potential to make a profit even
farming.  But any new small business sucks up a bunch of money and mucho
bunches of time at first (not just farming).  We started our CSA this year
we got 10 members.  We felt that was a good start, get our feet wet so to
speak, growing large amounts of veggies(compared with a hobby garden), and
dealing with customers.  We already know a few things we feel were success
and a few things we will do differently.  A few questions to ponder:
Do you own some land, do you live there?
Do you have previous knowledge of growing crops?
What equipment do you have? What will you need to purchase?
Do you have a small to medium chunk of money for seeds, etc.?
Do you presently have a job?  I'd keep it until the farm shows a profit or
is close enough to success that quitting your job will bring it to
profitability.
Any other suggestions from the list?
Good luck Beth
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Rains <krains@onysd.wednet.edu>
To: Community Supported Agriculture <CSA-L@prairienet.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 7:02 PM
Subject: can CSA provide a living?


>I am wondering...
>for those of you already in production and actually working your farms,
>can you make a reasonable living at this?
>I went to the library and checked out a book on small scale farming (it
>was negative) and made it sound like there was no way a person could
>find ANY profit in this business.
>To be honest, my goal is to pay my property pmts and taxes and pay the
>bills generated by farming. Is this an unreasonable expectation or are
>those of you out there able to achieve this?
>Please let me know.
>Thank you.
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> Karen A. Rains          krains@onysd.wednet.edu
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