12 Agrihoods Taking Farm-to-table Living Mainstream
Ever wish you could live at your CSA? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are?
Community-supported agriculture
Searching for alternatives: Community-Supported Agriculture
A Community Supported Agriculture project is based on direct person-to-person contact and trust, with no intermediaries or hierarchy.
A New Way of Doing Business for CSAs Emerges in Chattanooga, TN
In 2012, EPB, an electricity and communications distributor, partnered with Gaining Ground, a nonprofit dedicated to local food awareness, to develop a business plan that would make CSAs more accessible.
Field trip to an agroecological “teikei” family farm
In teikei consumers participate in the production through labour and capital, and in return they get seasonal, local, organic food directly from the farm.
Jenny Gellatly on The Power of Just Growing Stuff
What does it take to find the confidence to step over into actually starting a Community Supported Agriculture scheme?
Eating Our Way Home: An Immigrant Family’s Journey For Sustainability
A little over two years ago, we sold our house in Lexington, Kentucky to come back and settle in India. Me and my husband had spent seven and eleven years respectively in the United States and after years of confusion, vacillation, and endless planning, we finally decided to make the big move. Our compulsion to leave the United States was very strong, but our feelings were mixed. We had missed family and the surroundings familiar to us terribly the whole time we were in the United States, but so many years can hardly be just an interim—it is real time, and bound to be significant in certain ways.