Seeing you pictures reminds me that you have A LOT of land that you’re farming!! Other than a couple hours here or there from interns, do you have any other help? Things are looking great!

Hey Drew,

I’ve heard the figure tossed around that an acre can provide for 30 CSA members, but there are so many variables.  Prominent among these are the size of the weekly offering, and the length of the CSA season.  The balance of crop offerings fits into the equation as well, with plantings of (single-cut) broccoli using more space than (multiple harvest) summer squash.

I created an elaborate spreadsheet starting with a harvest plan (crops for each week of CSA), then estimated bed space required for those harvests (at a set level of memberships), then factored in some % loss, and the fact that some ground can be cropped twice in a season.  Its quite a spreadsheet, but totally untested.  I think it will take a few years of good record keeping to actually make it usable, and I don’t know if I;m really up for it.

In the mean time, I’m going off what I’ve done before and what I’ve seen before on other farms ...and I’m playing it safe with capacity.

Hope this helps.