“Offlee Organic” is a 100% Organic Farmers Market, CSA & supplier selling vegetables, fruits, meats and many other products harvested using 100% organic permaculture & biodynamic agriculture farming techniques. Norman Offlee the owner/operator of “KAI FARMS” & “Offlee Organics” had a dream and vision in mind which led him to starting this company. That dream was offering what he believed to be one of the most valuable necessities of the world to his son and family which was real organic food and other organic by-products. He later felt that his calling was to provide such rich, pure, wholesome food to everyone within reach and even does who are to unfortunate and not able to secure it. So in 2016 he purchased 21 acres of raw farm land in Dinwiddie, Virginia and began to put this plan into action. Creating & developing KAI FARMS a organic permaculture & biodynamic-agriculture farm with the purpose in mind to supply all who are in need or want with a truly organic product that is rich in taste and nutrient dense. KAI FARMS along with Offlee Organic daily operations offer key essentials to surrounding communities and all people in need. With a humanitarian mindset and equally kind heart the owners of KAI FARMS & Offlee Organic offer aide and help to our countries Military Veterans/Disabled Veterans, abused/raped women & unfortunate/at-risk youth. They do this by offering workshops on a variety of different life needed skills & lessons,offering shelter, food and assistance in getting back on track in exchange for labor on the farm. These services are offered but not limited to (Military Veterans/Disabled Veterans, abused/raped women, unfortunate/at-risk youth, single mothers or inspiring farmers/homesteaders.) those looking for a life change in a positive direction or simply needing to escape a bad/abusive environment, living arrangement or people who are simply down on their luck with no where else to turn. So here at Offlee Organic in conjunction with KAI FARMS our goal is to supply our 100% organic products to communities, restaurants, businesses & individuals while giving back also. So make us your 1st choice & only choice when thinking buying organic and help us help the world & those who love it.
Norman & Atasha Offlee are both disabled United States Army Veterans. Norman vision and dream also showed a place for his family to grow closer with our creator while also allowing his son Jakiah to have a place to grow up knowing what life was really about and knowing the natural beauty, simplicity and need of life and nature to interact. With a world plagued with GMO foods and everything being almost totally artificial he imagined KAI Farms. So he purchased 21 acres of raw land in Dinwiddie Virginia and began to put his dream and plan into action. While KAI Farms is a continuous work in progress the overall progress of it is something he wants to be never-ending to promote continuous evolution and positive development for generations to come. The overall functions and operations of the farm are solely based on growing chemical free, Non-Monsanto tainted, 100% organic food to provide a healthier life for his family and the growing organic deprived world seeking real wholesome food that they can purchase to lead a better lifestyle and know what their eating. Offlee Organic is a CSA & Farmers Market that will deliver to any and all who wish to purchase 100% organic meat, fruit & produce.
What is a CSA???
CSA (Community-supported agriculture)
also refers to a particular network, or association of individuals, who have pledged to support one or more local farms, with growers and consumers sharing the risks and benefits of food production. Community-supported agriculture (CSA; sometimes known as community-shared agriculture) is an alternative, locally based economic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA also refers to a particular network, or association of individuals, who have pledged to support one or more local farms, with growers and consumers sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
CSA members, or subscribers, pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the anticipated harvest; once harvesting begins, they periodically receive shares of produce. In addition to produce, some CSA services may include additional farm products like honey, eggs, dairy, fruit, flowers and meat. Some CSA’s provide for contributions of labor in lieu of a portion of subscription costs.
The term CSA is mostly used in the U.S. and Canada, but a variety of similar production and economic sub-systems are in use worldwide.
The CSA system
CSA’s generally focus on the production of high quality foods for a local community, often using organic or bio-dynamic farmingmethods, and a shared risk membership–marketing structure. This kind of farming operates with a much greater degree of involvement of consumers and other stakeholders than usual — resulting in a stronger consumer-producer relationship.The core design includes developing a cohesive consumer group that is willing to fund a whole season’s budget in order to get quality foods. The system has many variations on how the farm budget is supported by the consumers and how the producers then deliver the foods. CSA theory purports that the more a farm embraces whole-farm, whole-budget support, the more it can focus on quality and reduce the risk of food waste.
Structure
Community-supported agriculture farms in the United States today share three common characteristics: an emphasis on community and/or local produce, share or subscriptions sold prior to season, and weekly deliveries to members/subscribers. Though CSA operation varies from farm to farm and has evolved over time, these three characteristics have remained constant.The functioning of a CSA also relies on four practical arrangements: for farmers to know the needs of a community, for consumers to have the opportunity to express to farmers what their needs and financial limitations are, for commitments between farmers and consumers to be consciously established, and for farmers needs to be recognized.
From this base, four main types of CSAs have been developed:
- Farmer managed: A farmer sets up and maintains a CSA, recruits subscribers, and controls management of the CSA.
- Shareholder/subscriber: Local residents set up a CSA and hire a farmer to grow crops, shareholders/subscribers control most management.
- Farmer cooperative: Multiple farmers develop a CSA program
- Farmer-shareholder cooperative: Farmers and local residents set up and cooperatively manage a CSA.
In most original CSAs, a core group of members existed. This core group of members helped to make decisions about and run the CSA including marketing, distribution, administrative, and community organization functions. CSAs with a core group of members are most profitable and successful. However, in 1999, 72 percent of CSAs did not have a core group of members. CSAs with a core group of members operate more successfully as a farmer-shareholder cooperative and CSAs without a group of core members rely much more on subscriptions and run most prominently as shareholder/subscriber CSAs.
Distribution and marketing methods
Shares of a CSA originally and predominantly consist of produce. In more recent years, shares have diversified and include non-produce products including eggs, meat, flowers, honey, dairy and soaps. Share prices vary from CSA to CSA. Shares are sold as full shares, which feed 2 through 5 people, and half shares, which feed 1 through 3 people. Prices range from $200 to $500. Full shares are sold at a median of $400 and half shares are sold at a median of $250.Share prices are mostly determined by overhead costs of production, but are also determined by share prices of other CSAs, variable costs of production, market forces, and income level of the community.Many CSAs have payment plans and low-income options.
Shares are distributed in several different ways. Shares are most often distributed weekly. Most CSAs allow share pick up at the farm. Shares are also distributed through regional drop off, direct home or office drop off, farmers markets, and community center/ church drop off.For example, the new “Farmie Markets” of upstate NY take orders online and have a number of farmers who send that week’s orders to a central point in a limited region, for distribution by the organizers.
CSAs market their farms and shares in different ways. CSAs employ different channels of marketing to diversify their sales efforts and increase subscriptions. CSAs use local farmers markets, restaurants, on-farm retail, wholesale to natural food stores, and wholesale to local groceries in addition to their CSAs to market shares. One problem that CSAs encounter is over-production. So, CSAs often sell their produce and products in ways other than shares. Often, CSA farms also sell their products at local farmers markets. Excess products are sometimes also given to foods banks
What is KAI Farms & Offlee Organic Exactly???
Kai Farms is a family owned and operated permaculture farm focused on organic produce and organic raised animals based around the principles of the development of agricultural ecosystems intended to be sustainable and self-sufficient for those desiring pure, clean & healthy life styles. Kai Farms will offer an agricultural cooperative service also known as a farmers’ co-op or CSA, for sales of farms harvest in a variety of all organic grown fruits & vegetables and antibiotic free naturally fed livestock. And much much more such as; natural raw honey ( Italian & Russian Hybrid Honey Bees), fresh goats milk, home made soaps, home made candles, hand crafted jewelry, quality chicken tractors, animal houses & cages, folk art & painting’s, antiques, custom t-shirts, workshops & classes which is detailed on the HOME section of www.kaifarms.wordpress.com
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