Table of Contents
Foreword by Joan Dye Gussow
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Robyn Van En
Part I CSA in Context
1 What Is Community Supported Agriculture?
2 CSA and the Global Supermarket
- The Movement for a Sustainable Food System
Part II Getting Started
3 Creating a CSA
- The Decision to Form a CSA
- Steps to Forming a CSA
- Regional CSA Support Groups
4 How to Choose a Farmer
5 The Land
- Acquiring Land
- Protecting Farmland
- Passing on the Land
Part III Getting Organized
6 Nurturing a Solid Core Group
7 Labor
- Family Work
- Hiring Help
- Interns
8 Sharers on the Farm
9 Money Matters for CSAs
- Share Pricing and CSA Budgets
- Farmer Earnings
- Capital Investments
- Calculating the Share Price
- Bookkeeping
- Contracts
- Startup Expenses
10 Legalities
- CSA Legal Structures
- Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Food Stamps
11 To Certify or Not to Certify?
12 Community and Communications
- Community Farms
- Subscription Farms
- Communications
- Educational Programs
- Community Building
Part IV The Food
13 Growing the Food
Side Bar: Community Supported Seed? By CR Lawn
14 Handling the Harvest
15 Distributing the Harvest
- Farm Pickup
- Farm Stand and Farmers’ Market Pickups
- In-Town Pickup
- Home Delivery
16 The Weekly Share
17 Combining CSA with Other Markets
18 Regional Networking for Farm-Based Regional Development
- Local Marketing Networks
- Agricultural Development
Part V Many Models
19 Multifarm CSAs
- Farmer-Initiated Group CSAs
- Consumer-Initiated CSAs
20 Matching Biodiversity with Social Diversity
- Supplying Emergency Food
- Including Low-Income Members
- Community Food Security
- The Hartford Food System’s Holcomb Farm CSA
- Turning Farm Workers into Farmers
- Community Food Projects
21 Agriculture-Supported Communities
- Faith Community Supported Gardens
- Union Supported Agriculture
- Including the Disabled
- The Intervale: Community-Owned Farms by Beth Holtzman
- CSA as Experiential Learning on College Campuses by Nancy Hanson
- Breaking Down Racial and Economic Divisions: The Food Project
22 CSA Around the World
- The History of Teikei by Hiroko Kubota
23 CSAs That Quit
The Future: On Active Hope
CSA Resources
References
Index
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