For over two decades, Seward Co-op has hosted an annual Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) fair. While it has been an uplifting and connective event, with the recent sale of the Creamery building to NATIFS, we’ve made the decision not to host the CSA Fair this year. In addition to the loss of the parking lot as a hosting site, we are focusing our resources on supporting connections between local farmers and co-op customers within our stores.
Our support for local farmers and a robust regional food system is unwavering. This is the work we do every day as we survive and thrive as a community-owned co-op. Both of our stores will remain drop-off sites for a number of CSA shares, and the process for picking up shares will continue as usual.
We appreciate the long-running and newer partnerships we have fostered with all of the farms who’ve participated in our CSA Fair over the years. We were grateful to have met a unique need in our community over the past 24 years; and our understanding is that there are other platforms and organizations filling this gap in connecting CSA farmers with potential customers. We’ve listed a few of them as resources below.