Farm Shares Offer Local Produce Without The Labor: Case Study

In Farm Shares Offer Local Produce Without the Labor by April Crehan, it is known that New England is not the best land to farm because of the winter. However the owner of Siena Farms, Chris Kurth, grows his crops in Concord and Sudbury. Kurth’s company goal was to have customers be able to eat locally in a New England farm all year round. Despite having challenges such as “clearing off plastic hoop greenhouses and dealing with losing many more substantial structures that collapsed under the weight of snow and ice” during the winter. The shareholders of the (Community Supported Agriculture) CSA pay farmers weekly or monthly in return of “part of the farm’s bounty of products.“ Some products exchanged for the money include vegetables, flowers, fruit, herbs, meat and milk. To add on, Jason Hill is the general manager for Charles River portfolio of the nonprofit group of Trustees of Reservations which manages the Chestnut Hill Farm. For that farm, their historical significance is what matters the most other than sharing the land. This year they hope to get …show more content…
This is because the crops are being grown in a local farm and farmers have set up the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Therefore, farmers get paid in exchange of a product. Furthermore, since farmers share customers it is more of an economical benefit. Other economical benefits include According to the article, “increasing the number of shares means increasing land or land use and extending the season. It can be tricky with unpredictable weather and the possibility of leased land being sold.” Since the winter time is what makes the economic achievement decrease, that is one of the challenges farmers have to go through. The weather difficulty impacts people because it can disappoint customers and farmers because it means they are producing non fresh poor quality. On the other hand, when the winter passes the effect is that the