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Community-supported agriculture

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us: Community-supported agriculture


  • Here are entered works on the partnership between consumers and local farmers where members pay an annual membership fee to a local farmer to help cover the costs of running the farm in return for a share of the harvest, usually organic, freshly grown on the farm.

  • URI(s)

  • Instance Of

  • Scheme Membership(s)

  • Collection Membership(s)

  • Variants

    • us: Community agriculture
    • us: Community-shared agriculture
    • us: Community-supported farms
    • us: CSA farms

  • Broader Terms

  • Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • Sources

    • found: National Agriculture Library WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006: Publications about Community Supported Agriculture, 2001 (Community supported agriculture, Community-supported agriculture, Community shared agriculture, Community supported farms, Community agriculture)
    • found: Missouri Alternative Centers Bimonthly Electronic Newsletter WWW site, Jan. 16, 2006: Wiggins, E. Community supported agriculture (No two CSAs are alike ... each CSA is styled to the individual community and the needs of the farmer)
    • found: Alabama Cooperative Extension System WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006 (Community-supported agriculture ... a method by which people share part of a farm's operating expenses in return for deliveries of a crop, usually a freshly grown organic crop)
    • found: Cityfarmer.org WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006 (Community shared agriculture (CSA) schemes, whereby customers put up a springtime monetary share ... in return for a weekly delivery of produce and perhaps lightly processed foods)
    • found: NAL Alternative Farming Systems Information Center WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006 (Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a new idea in farming, one that has been gaining momentum since its introduction to the United States from Europe in the mid-1980s ... where consumers interested in safe food and farmers seeking stable markets for their crops joined together in economic partnerships)

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the partnership between consumers and local farmers where members pay an annual membership fee to a local farmer to help cover the costs of running the farm in return for a share of the harvest, usually organic, freshly grown on the farm.

  • Change Notes

    • 2006-01-17: new
    • 2006-02-23: revised

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