CSAs at Clover Learnings from Pilot Year

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CSAs at Clover Learnings from Pilot Year

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9 Responses to CSAs at Clover Learnings from Pilot Year

  1. CosetTheTable 16 January, 2013 at 1:36 pm #

    The combination of Burlington as a pickup location and the potential for half-shares has me definitely interested, where this wasn’t going to be feasible before. Awesome!

  2. lucia 16 January, 2013 at 4:08 pm #

    Do you think there are others who would be interested in the Burlington site as a place to get their CSAs? We’re trying to get an idea of what volumes would look like for that location. Are there any other CSA pickups nearby?

  3. bob 16 January, 2013 at 7:01 pm #

    I can’t imagine anyone is going to come to you for a CSA from the Boston Herald. The demographics just seem massively off. Old right-wingers vs. young Cambridge lefties.

    boston.com would be better (but probably not the paper version of the Globe). or Google adwords or something else online.

  4. CosetTheTable 18 January, 2013 at 4:03 pm #

    Lots of people who live in the ‘burbs feel close enough to just go to some of the farms directly (IE, people in Concord are just going to Verrill Farm).

    The local-ish pickup locations I’ve looked into aren’t as convenient as Clover Burlington will be for me, and I would usually have some difficulty getting to the pickup location on time. Usually half-shares are very popular in the city, and less popular in the ‘burbs, so while I haven’t very diligently looked for it, I haven’t found a half-share of anything easy to get to.

    (My favorite thing about that plaza right now is that there are a bunch of places to get decent food quickly, and several options, so even if my partner and I want different food, we’ll often both end up happy there. Clover will make that even easier)

  5. ayr 20 January, 2013 at 8:57 am #

    Well we hope your partner will become a huge Clover fan!!!

    Thanks for the note. You’re right about the suburbs having a much different relationship with farms. I didn’t ever have a CSA until I moved outside of the city. And you know, if a direct farm relation works better for some folks, I think we’d argue that’s the ideal way to get your produce. But on the other hand, we can offer a reach, selection of farms, and convenient pick-up times (and half-shares as you mention) that hopefully will open the CSA up to folks who otherwise wouldn’t have considered or been able to make them work.

    Thanks for the note!

  6. ayr 20 January, 2013 at 9:00 am #

    Bob –

    We can’t wait to prove you wrong! Whenever we have an article printed in the Herald we have the best response from customers of any outlet. I’m talking better than our coverage in the NYT, Wallstreet Journal, Globe, CNN, Food Network, etc. It’s been fantastic. We love those “old right-wingers” and everybody else who reads the Herald just like we love our Cambridgians!

    Aside: we are also talking to Boston.com and Google adwords.

  7. jasmina 25 January, 2013 at 11:29 am #

    Hey! Thanks for doing this. I live in NYC but I’d like to be able to register and pay for my low-income elderly parents to participate. Is there a mailing list that I can be added to?
    Thanks!

  8. lucia 25 January, 2013 at 5:22 pm #

    That’s a really sweet thought. Keep an eye on this site, we launch Feb 1. You can sign up right online.

    I’ll add you to the general mailing list too!

  9. jasmina 27 January, 2013 at 8:30 pm #

    Thanks, Lucia!

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