Pricing is one of the hardest parts of all commerce. Every time I get
offered a speaking gig, I struggle more with the fee than with the topic.
Let's say a CSA has been running for years at $460 a share; when is the
'right' time to begin to charge more when your expenses have been creeping
up slowly for years? Some times, people will realize the extra $40, 50 or
maybe even $100 just makes sense. Other times, a quarter of them may walk
away.
$800 is the highest I've ever heard for a CSA share. By far. If a
shareholder is only going to get the same amount as they would from a place
that charges $400-500 for a similar amount of food and time, nobody is going
to buy in.
But maybe their weekly boxes are twice as big. Maybe they're putting
$200 from each share into building a greenhouse so that the shares will
expand to include salad greens and spinach in the winter. Maybe they make
pick-up and delivery so easy its worth the extra.....
Hopefully, trial and error, the marketplace and such can sort these
kinds of things out.
But this is a tough economy to support a high price.
---McG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Liu" <[email protected]>
To: "James Godsil" <[email protected]>; "Community GardenNational"
<[email protected]>; "the john doe experience"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Milwaukee's First Roof-Top Farm Offers
CSAShares.
Questions: Is $800 a year a lot? Compared to what? That's about $20 per week
for 40 weeks, about $3 a day. How much do people spend on food per week?
What do people et with $3 a day?
There seems to be some misunderstanding about Capitalism. Capitalism is not
all bad. However, it is bad when you have free trade, and when you have
competitions, then the costs are kept low. May the lowest bidders win! Greed
is when money is in the hand of a few people, and everyone else is dirt
poor. Then everyone else is angry.
Is it possible to ever have Socialist Capitalism?
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
- Winston Churchill
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--- On Sat, 1/3/09, the john doe experience <[email protected]> wrote:
From: the john doe experience <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Milwaukee's First Roof-Top Farm Offers CSA
Shares.
To: "James Godsil" <[email protected]>, "Community GardenNational"
<[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009, 5:16 PM
let all be fine and well,
two predictions;
1). your precident will encourage others to increase food costs.
2). as a result of increased food costs others will compete and offer
food grown from rooftops at increased costs.
so is it better to charge more for local produce? letts ask again in five
years
On 1/3/09, James Godsil <[email protected]> wrote:
Inspired by Will Allen's Growing Power methods and using Growing
Power's
compost...
Community Growers has inaugurated Milwaukee's first *roof-top farm*.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLsAUS86J7E
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/ErikLindberg
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowers/HomePage
We are now offering a limited number of CSA shares for 2009…
$800 per share.
Our weekly shares will be comprised of a full range of vegetables and
herbs
grown on the Community Building and Restoration building on N. Palmer
St.,
just south of Capitol. These will be the freshest vegetables available.
Imagine the Possibilities
This year's subscription will cost $800. Because of our limited space
and
the unique nature of our endeavor, the cost of our shares may be on the
high
end for local CSAs, but we hope to offset this additional cost with a
longer
season, due to our ability to erect a greenhouse over our planting area
at
the beginning and end of the growing season. As of November 5th, we were
still harvesting tomatoes and peppers, broccoli and cauliflower, as well
as
a host of greens and root vegetables; as of January 1, we are still
harvesting Kale, Spinach, Arugula, and Lettuce. We expect a 35 week
season
and hope for a 40 week.
Great pictures and more prose at...
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CommunityGrowersCSAFarm/HomePage
Send e-mail to [email protected] for more
information and updates.
The Marriage of Milwaukee Artisans With Good Food Movement
Community Growers Rooftop Farm and the developing Sweet Water Oragnics
Fish
Farm Project in concert with Growing Power have eyes fixed on the prize
of
sparking similar installations in Milwaukee, the Great Lakes, and beyond.
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage
Carpenters, metal smiths, masons, painters, etc. are natural partners in
the
good food movement, due to the seasonality of their work and the
resources
their trades provide that are much needed in our movement, e.g. trucks,
enterprising risk tolerant spirits, and more.
Help inspire your local artisans to take some Growing Power "From
the Ground
Up" winter workshops one of these years and witness rooftop farms
and the
transformation of industrial slums into aquaculture systems!
What say?
Why not?
Godsil
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/GrowingPower/HomePage
http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/Main/CommunityRoofingAndRestorationInc
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