Local CSA / Papa Spuds?

30ashopper · #1 10-17-2009, 12:01 PM

I wonder if anyone here is familiar with Papa Spuds up in Raleigh?

Papa Spud's

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Papa Spud's is an online farmer's market, working to connect Triangle residents with local and/or sustainable farmers and their products.

By using Papa Spud's you can customize and purchase weekly deliveries of your favorite fruits and vegetables, direct from the farm - ensuring superior freshness and quality, while supporting local and/or sustainable growers, and offering them a fair price for their labors by cutting out the supermarket middle-man.

I doubt we have a market for something like this down here. I checked a CSA listing site and didn't find anything -

Community Supported Agriculture - LocalHarvest

Raleigh being a college town is probably a pretty good market for this and they have the local farms to pull produce from. I thought this was a neat idea though, would love to see something like this down here. Apparently PS was started by a couple local college students and is doing well.

Smiling JOe · #2 10-17-2009, 12:14 PM

...and the Triangle is in the middle of farm land. We have the Gulf on one side and developments on the other. Not many farmers, nor people to support it. Most people would rather find a McDonalds.

Jen (Raw and Juicy) linked in to a co-op, where they would receive seasonal foods, but with so little support in our area, I think they stopped buying in. The closest thing to it is the Farmer's Market in Seaside on Sat mornings.