WHAT IS A CSA SHARE?CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. In short it is a subscription to our farm. Members pay in advance for a weekly share of our harvest. CSA is our backbone and without it, our farming style would not be possible. Subscriptions help us cover many of the ...
Urban farming is a term that is often interchanged with other concepts such as community gardening, homesteading, or subsistence farming. However, it’s important to differentiate them. Urban farming primarily aims at cultivating produce for commercial purposes, focusing on selling the yield, rather ...
The CSA seed was first sown by Booker T. Whatley, a black horticulturist and agriculture professor at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Whatley was an advocate for regenerative farming in the 1960s and ’70s who was deeply engaged in the civil rights movement and support for black farmers. As ...
Members reported that they do not derive a strong sense of community from either their CSA or other forms of community, yet they volunteered at their CSA and appear to be engaged in activities within their communities, though the frequency of the latter is unknown. These data suggest New York...
Restricted use of antibiotics in organic farming has led to concern about high levels of microbes in manure, in turn causing food poisoning such as E. coli. There is a lack of sufficient evidence to prove organics suffer from a higher than conventional level of microbes, but right now studies...
Vertical farming can be done in urban settings and is often used to maximize space and increase crop yields. Are you suited to be a farmer? Farmers have distinct personalities. They tend to be enterprising individuals, which means they’re adventurous, ambitious, assertive, extroverted, energetic...
When are garlic scapes in season in Canada? These thin, green stalks are in season in in the late spring and early summer. Because garlic farming is dependent on soil temperature, scapes start growing once spring arrives and the soil starts warming up. In most parts of the country, scapes...
(CSA) program, which the farm started in 1993 when it was one of only three CSAs in the state. Today, Monroe’s is the oldest CSA in Colorado and currently offers both winter and summer shares. Bags of produce shares can be picked up at the farm for those who live nearby, and the...
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32.WeknowfromthesecondparagraphthatinAmerica___. A. farmingdependslargelyonwhitemen B. farmersaremostlyfromminoritygroups C. womencontributemoretoagriculturethanmen D. theareaoffarmlandisbecomingsmallerquickly33.WhichisthereasonwhyAmericanfarmsarebecomingsmaller? ___ E. Peoplearebecomingmoreconcernedabout...