Leading Local Farm/Food Aggregator Launches New Tack to Grow Market
Read about Spence Farm's Delivery Boxes
Even with the rising consumer demand for locally produced food, the economics of running a small farm are challenging. One of the biggest problems is that small farms are small.
By that I mean that few produce enough volume on their own to sell to brick-and-mortar retail, restaurants and institutions.
To address this issue, a rising number of collaborative efforts have taken root to aggregate the products of several (or many) farms, helping those farmers achieve steady customer relationships that they'd have limited opportunities to build on their own.
A pioneering aggregator this week made an important announcement about a new program they are creating to help connect more farms to more customers. Learn about Marty Travis of Illinois' Spence Farm, its Down at the Farms collaborative, and their new CSA-style direct to consumer program in this Local Food Forum website article.
Bob’s World, and Welcome to It
This is a fairly typical pose for our guy Hobbes. But this isn’t just any nap… It’s a birthday nap!
Our B.O.B. cat (it stands for Big Orange Boy) turned 3 today. Many, many happy returns, Hobbes!