I heard you speak at the National Farm to Cafateria Conference in Portland. Excellent Work! I am a CSA farmer in rural Wisconsin and weve done several things to try and serve working class folks through the CSA including having a Share-a-Share program inwhich members can donate to cover the cost of a share for lower-income families. We donate 2 shares annually to our local food pantry The Neighbors’s Place, as well as left shares that people didn’t pick-up on a weekly basis. We accept WIC at the farmers market. We have use our weekly newsletter to inform people about hunger issues nationally and globally as well as discuss the importance of paying a living wage. We price our shares of organic vegetables to equal 80% of what the equivilant conventional vegetables would cost on a weekly basis. Yet I still have a complex that it is ultimately foodie privilage that provides the base of our shares. What else is to be done? What other suggestions do you have for turning CSAs and the “good” food movement into rather than a class that ignores it or scornes its victims?

Solidarity,
Tony Schultz
Stoney Acres Farm
Athens, WI