Project Overview
A Book on Why and How to Run Cooperative CSA
Annual Reports
Information Products
Commodities
Practices
- Education and Training: farmer to farmer
- Farm Business Management: whole farm planning, new enterprise development, community-supported agriculture, cooperatives, budgets/cost and returns, marketing management
- Sustainable Communities: new business opportunities, social capital, social networks
Proposal summary:
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) operations have evolved in response to the successes and failures of single-farm CSAs. This project will document how the Local Harvest CSA in New Hampshire and cooperative CSAs elsewhere are organized and operated. Outreach will be through the publication of this book and presentations.