[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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>     Danville, IN
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