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Bookmark or Share- Community Supported Agriculture - LocalHarvestFor over 25 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of "shares" to the public.
- What is a CSA? Types, Pros and Cons, and How to Join a CSACSA stands for “community-supported agriculture.”. It’s a model of farming, distribution, and marketing that began in Japan in the 1960s. The women who pioneered the model were looking for alternatives to the pesticide-heavy, industrial-scale agriculture that had replaced small, local farms and farming families.
- Community-supported agriculture - WikipediaCommunity-supported agriculture (CSA model) or cropsharing is a system that connects producers and consumers within the food system closer by allowing the consumer to subscribe to the harvest of a certain farm or group of farms.
- Local Food Directories: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Directory ...Local Food Directories: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Directory. The CSA Directory lists farm or network/association of multiple farms that offer consumers regular (usually weekly) deliveries of locally-grown farm products during one or more harvest season (s) on a subscription or membership basis.
- The Definitive Guide to Community Supported AgricultureWhat is Community Supported Agriculture? Community supported agriculture (CSA) allows people to purchase seasonal produce directly from a local farmer. The farm offers a certain number of “shares” to the public and commits to grow food for participating members.
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