Many farmers are looking for ways to shorten supply chains, produce food for their local communities and capture a fair price for the investment they put into raising crops ecologically. With field crops, this can be especially challenging when standard models of marketing like CSA don’t apply. Or do they?

Come out to learn how farmers in Manitoba are working together to grow staple crops for their community through a grain CSA!

Amy Nikkel’s small organic farm, Adagio Acres, grows and mills hulless oats in the Interlake region of Manitoba. After selling oats primarily through retail and foodservice channels in Manitoba for about 6 years, they began to see gaps in the industrial food distribution system and began to devise a way to fill those gaps. Growing up without a farming background, the huge scale of prairie farming caught them off guard as they stepped into the world of food production.

Adagio Acres now runs an annual Grain CSA where the primary goal is to create a supportive consumer base for a network of small-scale grain farms and mills across the province, reduce food waste and food miles, and create a vibrant local grain community.