Jan 30, 2017
When you start a farm, what's one of the most important things that you need to do...
Hint… it’s not growing the food...
It's selling the food that you do grow.
I hear this time and time again from seasoned farmers, and I most recently heard it from a long time USDA loan agent when she said... "Growing is the easy part. In California we can grow almost any crop, the hard part is selling that crop."
Biology supports that. Plants and animals are genetically pre-programmed to grow and reproduce. As much as we think that we need to be involved, in a large way, we are just ushering along biology.
And for many people it's the growing of food or the raising of livestock that's the fun part. Not the selling or the marketing.
But without the selling and marketing and cash flow coming in, you're not a farmer, you are homesteader or a gardener, there's simply no business.
Given that it's critical to get some cash flow going right away when you start the business..
One way to do that, is to pre-sell some of your product, even before you raise it, through a CSA.
That's what we're talking about today..
Darby's going to be sharing his experiences and insights running a chicken CSA. It's a program that brings in a lot of cash early in the season when a lot of cash is going out of the business to pay expenses. Overall the program has worked well, and his business wouldn't be the same without it...
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