Emerging trend for CSAs -- the All Star CSA

[KurtNYC]

2. One version of this is mini-CSAs that do only medicinal herbs or just chicken and eggs

or just bread. If these guys coordinate on a pick up spot then a customer pick up each of their mini shares at the same time and place.

Here is the herbalist ("CSH&quot :
http://goodfightherbco.com/

There is a small farm locally that specializes in off-season CSA, both from a greenhouse and storage. They do salad greens, herbs and tomatoes from their greenhouse and carrots, onions, potatoes, parsnips from storage. They have a share that runs exactly opposite the 23 weeks that most others sell.

I think it takes coordination among growers but they retain independence. And the local CSA thing is very crowded now. Farmers' Markets are full or locked into the most long-term sellers. Processors and brokers pay no more than the Hunt's Point wholesale rate (10-cents a pound for potatoes, 22-cents for carrots in cello, etc.) so people are sort of expanding the whole concept of subscription-based DTC food.