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Ste ve Porter giving a tour of his farm. (Credit: author)
the CSA, but at least they had the basic framework of potential members to
contact.
Steve guided the initial group's development. “The first year we had
maybe a hundred families in the Buffalo area.”Now the complex operational
organization, which varies between the groups, is purely his own. “They
were set up in what we call distribution groups. So they were used to one
person driving out to the farm and picking up ten bags for their group and
going back. That is how we run the Buffalo area people. We have about 120
families. I would have to go back to my database and start adding. It is about
110 to 120 families split up into nine groups. So they average about fourteen
or fifteen families per group.”
“Each group is usually a group of people who live in the same suburb or
part of the city. They are split up by geography. One person from that group
serves as a coordinator, who I give a discount to for some of their troubles.
They set up a driving schedule for our season, and each week one person
from the group drives out to the farm. The bags are already made up, so
they just pick up the bag and maybe stay and visit. Then they go back and
the same location each week serves as a pickup point. That is the same every
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