Copper Cricket Farm

Copper Cricket Farm is a family run, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Farm. They raise chickens vegetables, and fruit. They have 2 acres of cultivated land for vegetables and fruit. They are not certified organic but they practice organic methods. The farm is not organic or natural because of the cost and paperwork but more than that the customer base is small enough where it is not necessary. The family grows 100 different types of crops each season.

 They harvest and deliver on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. They deliver by route and each customer gets a basket each week. The payments are due weekly and the subscription is for an entire year. They have 100 customer families and feed typically 200 -250 people off of their 2 acres. In the farm there is a lot of failure because they do not use herbicides or pesticides. They have walk behind equipment which is more cost efficient.

The owner's choice is to no till but sometimes that is not possible so then he has to till. Normally he just plants in the grass that is in the rows. He uses a 5 year rotation system and uses the hay he baled into 40 lbs. round bales for fertilizer.

 He also fertilizes with compost from a pony that sits for at least a year before it is used. Their typical season runs from the first week of May to the end of December. The family started building in 2007 and started selling in 2008.


Although their farming techniques are neat I do not understand how someone can feed the world or make a profit like this. Having a large failure like the owner said he had would take away from the profit. Also if I were a customer I would like to know what vegetables I would be getting from week to week instead of having someone else chose for me.