Ep. 95 Talking Community Supported Ag (CSA) with Nick Frillman

In this week's podcast we talk with Local Foods and Small Farms Educator Nick Frillman about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Nick shares a lot of great information about what CSA is, how it works, and how to get involved in one. 2:51 Welcome Nick Frillman 3:11 What does CSA stand for? 4:19 What does community supported agriculture mean? 7:12 How are you so familiar with CSA already? 9:05 What are “shares” in a CSA system? 12:21 What products can you get in a CSA? 14:03 What vegetables do you get when? Can you choose what you get? Are there bigger or small size shares that you can get? 22:14 About how much is a vegetable CSA membership cost per week? How is the CSA cost billed? Why is it billed that way? 28: 05 How come there aren’t more winter CSAs? 34:12 What if you don’t use it all? How do you use it all? Or do you? 40:11 Can I choose what I get for produce or should I just stick to going to the farmers market? 44: 32 Why should someone consider a CSA for 2022? 45: 55 How do I find a CSA near me? Check out the Good Growing Blog: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: https://go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsu... Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies. -- Want to listen to the podcast? You can find us on most podcast platforms. SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-555304573 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/good-gr... Tunein https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3si... Vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/good-growin... Listen notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/... Ivy https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-1... Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growi... Google podcasts https://bit.ly/3AiYjTD