Harvesting, Sharing, Growing Community
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Community-Supported Agriculture
Community-supported agriculture, or CSA for short, is a form of independent, sustainable, versatile agriculture – an alternative model to industrial super-markets. As a concept, community-supported agriculture unites several things. It meets our increasing desire to buy regionally sourced products. Producers can make a profit without exploiting other people or the natural world: cooperation between producers and consumers means that businesses are financially secure, while buyers are guaranteed a weekly harvest. Not only that, but CSA grows communities – not just vegetables. Farmers know their products and the customers who buy them. And the consumers of their harvest get to experience first- hand how making conscious dietary decisions can shape our cultural landscape and be an active contribution to sustainable agriculture. All this creates a really good feeling – on both sides.
But what exactly needs doing all year round in businesses like these? What goes on, especially outside of harvest time? At Distelfink Vegetable Collective, roles are clearly defined – and one thing’s for certain: no one will ever get bored. From January through to December, the farm’s founders have their plates full – sometimes heaped. You’ll learn what jobs there are to do on this sort of farm, who’s responsible for what, and how things work when there are five different voices that get to have a say, have ideas to contribute or simply want to be heard.
Would you like to make a difference, too? Have you often dreamed of realizing your own project, something that will make your world a little bit better – and maybe the worlds of other people as well? Perhaps you don’t quite know where or how you could even start? If that’s the case, this book is for you: it will teach you how best to go about things if you’ve got a brilliant idea in mind and are just dying to get started. Let yourself be inspired – no matter whether you’re interested specifically in market gardening, want to learn more about sustainable agriculture in general, or simply want to find out how best to plan a project from the ground up.
In this book, you won’t just learn in great detail about community-supported and regenerative agriculture, but can feed on plenty of practical experience as well.
The special thing about this book is that it contains a huge amount of background knowledge on the community-supported agriculture model and cultivation methods used in regenerative agriculture. It provides a comprehensive overview of the different concepts behind sustainable agriculture, particularly how they are implemented at Distelfink Vegetable Collective. Beyond that, the book is packed full of practical experience: how can you go about founding your own business, how can you actually realize a project? How do you go about it all, where do you begin? Each area is presented and described in detail: what’s it like to work in a market-gardening business, what jobs need doing and when?
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