Sunday, November 6, 2011

CSA yes sir!

 CSA
  • 2 Types:
    • Crop Share Alliance:
      • The farmer does all the work, but gets paid ahead of time by customers who receive shares of the crops in return
        • Benefits:
          • People who don’t have enough land to have their own Garden have access to to fresh locally grown produce, meat, and dairy.
          • It supports local business.
          • You know where your food is coming from and can see that it is grown organically, with out any harmful pesticides or herbicides or fungicides.
          • It helps the local economy as well.
          • Also people who may work a lot and don't have time to tend to a garden.
        • Downfalls:
          • people don't learn the subsistence skills themselves.
          • The amount of machinery needed to produce large crops.
          • A lot of work for a single farmer and maybe a few farm hands.
        • Things they can produce:
          • Beef, chicken and any other meets they may produce, such as pork, all organically and grass fed.
          • Dairy products from milk cows, such as fresh non hormonal milk and cheese.
          • Eggs from chickens
          • Their own fertilizer from the manure of their livestock.
          • And of course crops, such as: corn, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, green beans, etc.
    • Community Supported Agriculture:
      • Also sometimes called community gardens are where people pay for a small area of land on a large plot, and do their own farming and can grow what they wish.
        • Benefits:
          • People who don’t have their own land to grow on now have a place.
          • People learn the skills for themselves.
          • The people can get what they want.
          • Social interaction
          • Education from others.
          • You know first hand what was used in the growing process.
          • Its fresh and not imported.
        • Down falls:
          • you have to have time to tend to the garden.
          • Limit of space.
        • Things they can produce:
          • Whichever flowers, vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants you choose to grow in your section.
          • The owner of the land may also have animals that they gather sellable goods from and offer for sale to community members.
  • Why CSA's are important:
    • As the price of oil goes up so does the cost of all of these things we can produce right in our community.
    • The more we import from other countries the more money that leaves our local economy.
    • Crops shouldn’t be grown with harmful chemicals and growth hormones.
    • People should learn the skills involved with cultivating land.
  • Other cool things you can do with CSA's:
    • Animal Power
    • Educational summer camps
    • Delivery
    • self sustainable renewable energy systems.


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