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Walking up to the Seward Co-op on Franklin Avenue, you are first greeted with a wavy green overhang that reads “Everyone Welcome” above the doors. Upon walk .
Farmers used to drop off boxes of kale, root vegetables, maybe even a bottle of cow's milk on front porches and drive off in their Ford Econolines or trucks. In the not-so-distant 1990s, this was the glorious meeting between local patron and small farms, an early version of the subscription food system known as community supported agriculture (CSA). "[CSAs] were a completely new arrangement. .