Market Outlets and Tools
COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA)
Partnership between consumers and farmers in which consumers pay for farm products in advance and farmers commit to supplying sufficient quantity, quality and variety of products. This type of arrangement can be initiated by the farmer (farmer directed) or by a group of consumers (participatory).
On the Web
- CSA Across the Nation: Findings from the 1999 CSA Survey.
(2003) Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS), College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Provides the first comprehensive portrait of the CSA movement in the US. Findings from a 1999 national "census" survey show commonalities and diversity among CSA farms. http://www.cias.wisc.edu/economics/csa-across-the-nation-findings-from-the-1999-and-2001-csa-surveys/
- CSA Resources for Farmers. (updated 2006) U.S. Department of Agriculture, AFSIC. List of selected books, articles, videos and web links focusing on the business of CSA farming. http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csafarmer.shtml
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Ginger S. Myers
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