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026: Dan Kaplan on Shared Risk and Shared Loss at Brookfield Farm

8/6/2015

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Dan Kaplan has managed Brookfield Farm in Amherst, Massachusetts, since 1994. Brookfield Farm was one of the first CSAs in the United States, and currently supports 525 shares of produce, plus an additional 200 winter shares. Our conversation reflected on the growth of CSA and local foods from Brookfield Farm’s founding in 1984 to now, including how Brookfield has embraced a contemporary way of looking at its CSA shares without losing the core of its CSA community. Dan reflects at length on shared risk – and shared loss – as the core value of the CSA concept, binding the producer and consumer in a way that no other marketing model does. We also discuss Dan’s popular crop-planning spreadsheets, and his aspiration to time travel.

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Dan Kaplan’s crop planning spreadsheets help him run his farm with nothing more than addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division – plus a little attention to order of operations.
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1/19/2017 08:21:40 am

I really enjoyed this episode! Wonderfully deep discussion and wondering about life and death. Thank you for telling us about your beautiful CSA and how you see it as an experiment/experience in shared loss. That is an angle I have never considered and it is powerful. Great stuff!

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10/14/2017 03:19:32 pm

Really appreciate this episode. Have listened to it several times over the past few years. Helps remind us why we do what we do and keep the power and meaning of CSA alive. Thanks for your work Chris, and thanks to Dan for sharing!

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