A few comments by Michael Pilarski, Friends of the Trees Society.
[This paper was written for presentation at an Earth Repair workshop I did on Vashon Island on November 19, 2016.]
A CSA farm (community-supported agriculture) is the popular farmer-to-consumer marketing system in which customers pay the farmer upfront for food they receive in weekly boxes (mostly vegetables) during the growing season. There were two CSA farms in the US in 1986 and thousands in 2015. Herbal CSAs are now beginning to pop up around the nation and are sometimes referred to as CSHs (community supported herbalism). The panel will explore how to create viable businesses based on CSHs.