[Market-farming] interesting read on CSAs
Dan
dan at citygardenfarms.com
Tue Mar 9 02:10:11 EST 2010
Anyone in the OR/WA area should check out FoodHub. You can request a
free sample login that will give you access to their online application
for a few days. It's basically an online marketplace. It's a website
to connect growers with chefs, institutions, whoever wants to buy fresh
produce. It's for any sized grower really.
On 3/8/2010 9:30 PM, WENDY & RANDY GRAY wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I attended the Oregon Small Farms Conference on 2/27 and the session
> on marketing your business and products. At that session there were
> presentations from three organizations. Gorge Grown Mobile Food
> Network (a regional market place) where the network has a van and
> drives to communities that don't have markets. Local Food Marketplace
> -founded in Eugene, OR (and sounds like what is being discussed here,
> and third, Food Hub.org, build by Ecotrust. All are very interesting
> and have me considering them and thinking about not doing Saturday
> markets.
>
> Here are links:
>
> Gorge Grown: http://www.gorgegrown.org/project/mobile-market.cfm
>
> Local Food marketplace:
> http://www.localfoodmarketplace.com/LFM/Default.aspx
>
> Food Hub: http://www.ecotrust.org/foodhub/
>
> Thought I'd share,
>
> Wendy in Oregon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Platte" <ryan at bootstrapacres.com>
> To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 1, 2010 5:21:42 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] interesting read on CSAs
>
> I'm an experienced software developer. I've done PHP and several other
> languages but have the most experience in Rails. I'm NOT looking for
> extra volunteer projects (trying to do LESS software and more
> farming!) but will need some software a bit like this for my own
> farm-credit scheme and would be delighted to share if I wind up
> building something.
>
>
> My best scenario is when someone has a clear idea of something to
> implement, so perhaps we've got a fighting chance if we join forces,
> John and Kathryn.
>
> Since software has so many aspects that can be worked on, we talk
> about "minimal viable products" as the first target delivery. What's
> the least we can do for a system like this that would be useful, and
> when would folks need it?
>
> Also: does anyone use existing for-pay software? Thanks for the link
> to Farmigo. Are there others? Is it any good and how much does it
> cost? Software is pretty expensive to build -- it's just like market
> farming, the customer price expectations are often WAY lower than the
> real costs.
>
> There is an open-source Java desktop app that was started with a USDA
> grant that could maybe intersect with this effort:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/cropplanning/
>
> Ryan Platte
> Bootstrap Acres, Rochester NY
> http://bootstrapacres.com/
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Ferree <john at seldomseenfarm.com
> <mailto:john at seldomseenfarm.com>> wrote:
>
> I think some collaboration would be awesome. I don't know what
> you're feelings are, but there might be an opensource/sourceforge
> type opportunity? I'm not a programmer, but have a bit of web
> design experience. . . with that comes linux, php, database end
> user experience. I can outline what I want to do, but not
> implement it. I think much of the base is there. There are
> various carts out there that do the same thing. We just need a
> modified system.
>
> Something that will - allow customization of a base 'bin'
> Cutoff customization at a predetermined time each week
> Allow people to take vacations from the CSA
> Create users/member accounts
> Create a credit/debit system
> Bill people for ordering extra
> Create summary and distribution sheets
>
> But most of all, once it is built. . . we need some committed CSA
> members to tell us where the bugs are and how to improve it.
>
> I'll see where my friend is at, I think he's just working on an
> outline of functions. . . and trying to wrap his head around how
> it is different from a typical online store.
>
> John
>
> Yeah, it is from the Abbey's character, and the lay of our ground
> Shawnee ; )
>
>
> On 2/28/2010 12:28 PM, KAKerby at aol.com <mailto:KAKerby at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> Very interesting that you would mention a web-based solution
> to solve some of the administrative issues. That's almost
> verbatim what we'd come up with here as a potential solution
> too. I haven't written such a web page yet, and haven't even
> wrapped my brain around what all would need to be done with
> such a web page, but it's nice to see someone else thinking
> along the same lines. John, are you a programmer as well as
> grower? That's the background I come from. I'd be game to
> collaborate with you on something like this that we could
> share with other growers. Not sure if it's quite as
> complicated as putting a man on the moon but it might be
> close. Nevertheless I'd be game to try.
> Kathryn Kerby
> Frog Chorus Farm
> Snohomish, WA
>
>
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