Barrington Debit Card CSA: Latest News

Seasons greeting to all who are reading our first Blog. It is quite exciting to be utilizing this new form of communication. I hope it has spell check!

Today was a good day for the Barrington CSA, we received permission from George Tanner of the Barrington ACE Hardware to hold the Farmers Market / Debit Card CSA in front of his beautiful store on corner of County Road where it turns to head into Warren. We will be there every Wednesday from June 18th to October 29th. It will function much like the Debit Card CSA on Wickenden Street has for the last five years. Members signup and receive a ten percent discount on any items they wish to purchase. This year we will allow members to flow back and forth between the two markets ( on Tuesday and Wednesday) if that works for them. In other words if you need some produce on Tuesday but miss the market for whatever reason you can now drop by the market in Barrington and carry through with your purchases as if you were at either one.

However, we are not out of the woods yet. We still need to go before the Barrington Town Counsel to get permission to carry on a business in the town of Barrington. This process may take a few weeks as it involves mailing letters out from the townhall to all the abuttors in the surrounding area. Baring any complaints we feel we are well on the way to having our first farmers market in Barrington. 

All our box CSA shareholders from last year will have even more choice for amounts and variety of produce. We might send out a quick email to all old members and interested parties to help us out at our townhall hearing when that is scheduled.