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Farms of Tomorrow Revisited

Community-Supported Farms: Farm-Supported Communities

Paperback
April 1998
9780938250135
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  • Publisher
    Biodynamic Farming & Gardening Association
  • Published
    1st April 1998
  • ISBN 9780938250135
  • Language English
  • Pages 294 pp.
$17.50

This timely sequel to the popular inspirational blueprint for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is set to guide this rapidly growing movement to the next stage of its development. The authors provide very practical examples and information that will be of service to growers and shareholders alike without losing sight of the heart and excitement that makes CSA central to the renewal of agriculture.

Added to the material from the original edition are two new essays by Trauger Groh dealing with the economic, legal and spiritual questions surrounding the CSA movement, and the role of domestic animals on CSA farms, while Steven McFadden contributes several new pieces on the context and scope of community farms. New profiles of five farms are included, and the farm "biographies" from the 1990 first edition are reprinted and updated with reports on their present situations and lessons learned during the intervening years.

Expanded appendices provide suggestions for starting CSA farms, look at the issues surrounding the acquisition and holding of land, illustrate sample farm prospects and budgets, and offer lengthy lists of resources and suggestions for additional reading.

C O N T E N T S:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Essays on the Farms of Tomorrow —Trauger Groh

1. Why Do We Need New Farms?
2. What Is Needed to Create the Farms of Tomorrow?
3. Ten Steps toward the Farms of Tomorrow
4. Three Basic Rules
5. Economic, Legal, and Spiritual Questions
6. Domestic Animals and the Farms of Tomorrow

Part II: Essays on the Context and Scope of the Farms of Tomorrow—Steven McFadden

1. The Context of Community Farms
2. Belonging to a Community Farm
3. Large-scale Community Farms
4. Community Farm Coalitions (Marcie Ostrom)

Part III: Examples of Community-Supported Farms—Steven McFadden

1. The Temple-Wilton Farm
2. The CSA Garden in Great Barrington
3. Brookfield Farm
4. The Kimberton CSA Garden
5. The Hawthorne Valley Farm
6. Caretaker Farm
7. Roxbury Farm CSA
8. Good Humus Produce
9. Forty Acres and Ewe
10. Variations on a Theme: The Expanding Scope of Community Farms

Part IV: Appendices

A. The Basic CSA Concept: Some Suggestions for Getting Started
B. Gaining Ground: How CSAs Can Acquire, Hold, and Pass on Land
C. Sample Budgets
D. Sample Prospecti
E. Typical CSA Shares
F. Resources

Bibliography
About the Authors

Trauger Groh

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Steven McFadden

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