The CSA "Grown with Love"
Published: 2020-02-23
Translation
This is a translation of a Bulgarian-language post. It conveys the content faithfully but is not the author's original English writing.
Your garden
This is a story about the path of trust.
Most of us know one another. Even if you have not come to the market to buy fresh greens, herbs and vegetables, you have at least come across one of my posts online — usually with many colourful photos depicting our varied, tasty vegetables, grown with love.
Or perhaps you are one of the people who have ordered Aglen potatoes for a second year now, or one of those with whom, together, we wrote the history when I began delivering you the first boxes of vegetables back in the distant year 2012. With others, our acquaintance dates from even before that, and you associate me with some wonderful raspberries grown in the Valley of the Roses and the Thracian Kings.
No matter where we know each other from, over the years many of you have placed your trust in me, by choosing to put on your table precisely my produce — and by that you have sustained my faith that I am on the right path and that what I do is needed and wanted. I sincerely thank you!
Trust is also foundational to our new endeavour, which is a natural continuation of everything done in the garden so far. I very much hope we will continue together at this new level. Here, in Bulgarian and in plain terms, is a description of what a Community-Supported Agriculture programme is. Online you can find a great deal more information about CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). The idea is not new at all. Abroad, for decades, people from the city have obtained clean food precisely by participating in such programmes. Unfortunately, the few attempts made here have all ended unsuccessfully, mostly because people simply have trouble trusting.
With you in mind — and with some of you, our acquaintance has long grown into friendship — I believe it is time to break the status quo and show that such sustainable practices have fertile ground here too. Without further preamble, I invite you to get to know the contract for the "Grown with Love" Community-Supported Agriculture programme! An integral part of it are Annex 1 and Annex 2 — look them over, think about whether this is something for you, and let us continue from there together!