A number of people met for a BoF at DrupalCon DC in March 2009. Our goal is discuss how Drupal can be used to help farmers run their CSAs and help people get better access to good, local, food.
During the BoF we outlined the following initial steps to move this forward:
- Create use cases or user scenarios for: Farmers, CSA Members, Prospective CSA Members: if you fit into any of these categories, or know anyone who does, please develop a user story or use case (learn more about user personas.)
- Research existing CSA websites and add them to this wiki page of existing CSA websites
- Research coordinating organizations that support CSAs
- Research Government Funding sources
Use Case: Maria Cátalán's Laughing Onion CSA
Maria Catalan is a CSA farmer I have been working with for around five years now, and her story is like many of those in the ALBA (Agriculture & Land-Based training Association) program. She works a 35-acre organic vegetable farm in Hollister CA and distributes her vegetables through farmer's markets, and a CSA that delivers to 28 different sites and has over 200 subscribers. She has a 3/4 growing season, taking winter off.
Maria and I have discussed her desire to have a website for a while, and I can outline her needs below:
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