Community Supported Agriculture Practices and Systems Agriculture

Community Supported Agriculture

Community Supported Agriculture (or CSA) is a system developed by local peoples to create a localized food supply around the customer base. Each farm offers shares to consumers and they receive, in turne, a portion of the harvest. This helps to defray the intial operating cost of each season's harvest.

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• - This short article by Robyn Van En, one of the founders of CSA in the US, overviews when and why the CSA movement hit the United States and is followed by "CSA Roots in Japan" by Brewster Kneen.
  
• - A short paper overviewing what a CSA is and what it takes to get one going from a farmers perspective. Includes a good bibliography of resources. Prepared in 1997 by Lane Greer of Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas in Fayetteville, Arkansas
  
  

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