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Sharing the Harvest, Revised and Expanded

A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture

by Elizabeth Henderson, Robyn Van En

Foreword by Joan Gussow

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

• Children 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

• Animals by Robyn Van En

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