Thread: Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms

Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms



Tim Fuller helps run Erehwon Farm, one of a growing number of community-sponsored farms in the United States. More Photos >

By SUSAN SAULNY
Published: July 10, 2008

CAMPTON TOWNSHIP, Ill. — In an environmentally conscious tweak on the typical way of getting food to the table, growing numbers of people are skipping out on grocery stores and even farmers markets and instead going right to the source by buying shares of farms.

Farm-Grown Produce On one of the farms, here about 35 miles west of Chicago, Steve Trisko was weeding beets the other day and cutting back a shade tree so baby tomatoes could get sunlight. Mr. Trisko is a retired computer consultant who owns shares in the four-acre Erehwon Farm.

“We decided that it’s in our interest to have a small farm succeed, and have them be able to have a sustainable farm producing good food,â€

I see this as the wave of the future. Especially with all the talk about "crops rotting in the fields" and tainted produce from mexico & china.

Now we really won't need any IA farm workers either.

It's really popular in my area. I love getting local organic produce and I'm trying to find a meat co-op too.

What a wonderful idea, and I am for anything that supports our farmers . Also ends this poisoning all the food. This would be the way to get chicken also for what ninkapoop would have come up with sending chickens to China to be processed? Yes, a whole New America with all the globalists kicked to the curb .

Originally Posted by Lynne

It's really popular in my area. I love getting local organic produce and I'm trying to find a meat co-op too.

I read about this one,"At the Cattleana Ranch in Omro, Wis., Thomas and Susan Wrchota offer grass-fed meat and organic produce through a community-supported arrangement. They have 55 members, and a seven-month meat membership costs $715."
Of it can help you.