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We are a Network of Community Supported Agriculture Farms Across the UK

Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between farmers and consumers.

Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between farmers and consumers in which the responsibilities, risks and rewards of farming are shared.

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Long standing CSA Norwich FarmShare is a CSA that

Long standing CSA Norwich FarmShare is a CSA that has been operating for about 10 years. They’re now based on a 2.5 acre site on the south east side of Norwich where they grow chemical free veg and some herbs for about 110 households and one restaurant. They’re still expanding the growing potential of the site, building the soil and developing infrastructure – 2019 was the first full season growing on the field. They have two part time growers Jack and Joel and a growing team of passionate volunteers. Community engagement and education are strong values and they hope that in the future they will be doing much more outreach work.
Their medium term plans involve continuing to build soil to be able to grow better crops, reduce the need for irrigation and experience less pest and disease; invest in their infrastructure; improve wages for staff and be able to pay for more person hours on the farm; pay staff to do more outreach work; improve propagation facilities and expand their delivery area through more collection points. They are also very engaged with the work of @landworkersalliance and Via Campesina, understanding that issues of racism, colonialism, global and local economics, house prices and the cost of living are all connected and influence the barriers to their success.
They’ve recently joined OOOOBY and this is the best place to go to sign up as a member. https://www.ooooby.org/norwichfarmshare @norwich_farmshare
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This week we would like to tell you about Tomnah'a

This week we would like to tell you about Tomnah'a Market Garden CSA in beautiful Perthshire, Scotland. They produce a mix of veg, cutflowers, hens, fruit, herbs and any other useful plants that they can do things with. Set up by Cristy, Sam and Judith in 2015, they and a magnificent team of volunteers been turning a bare field into busy market garden with lots of social, biodiverse, tasty, wildlife friendly, beautiful and creative things going on aswell as regular veg boxes that their members come each week to pack themselves. #CSA #perthshire #scotland #agroecology #flowers #biodiversity

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This weeks #CSA network UK featured member is Farn

This weeks #CSA network UK featured member is Farnham Community Farm, founded in 2008, are a local vegetable growing project started by a group who felt there was a need for fresh local produce, and a healthy attitude towards the production behind it. It has slowly grown and evolved to become a 2 acre site, providing a weekly veg bag scheme which runs all year round - pesticide-free veg even through the hungry gap. They now have 3 growers as well as a host of lovely volunteers including from schools and local employability schemes. Veg grown for the community, with the community. Their fave crops to grow - fennel, broad beans, swede! 🥗🥬
@farnhamcommunityfarm #CSA #community #local #growlocal #volunteering #pesticidefree

Introducing the AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH COLLABORATION

Introducing the AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH COLLABORATION 🌱 The Agroecology Research Collaboration (ARC) is a new initiative developed by the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA), CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture, Ecological Land Cooperative, Organic Growers Alliance, and Pasture for Life. 🌱 As organisations working towards shifting the paradigm around how we produce food and use land, we recognise the important position that research has to play in doing so. ARC is therefore a collective endeavour to support and inform an increasing research interest led by, centring on and meeting the needs of agroecological farmers, growers, foresters and other land-based workers. We work and collaborate with other organisations advocating for change and recognise the potential for strengthening the agroecology movement when our efforts are combined and coordinated. 🌱 For more information on the ARC's work, and how you can get involved, head over to the page on the LWA site (also as a link in our bio) >> https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/agroecology-research-collaboration/

Plotgate Community Farm CSA is based near Glastonb

Plotgate Community Farm CSA is based near Glastonbury, Somerset and began in 2016. Their 10 acres are home to productive no-dig vegetable gardens, a reservoir teeming with wildlife and chickens, Kunekune pigs and Shetland sheep. They’re one of the largest no-dig farms in the UK and are passionate about biodiversity, low-impact farming and feeding their community. Plotgate have weekly volunteers who provide amazing support to the farm. Their veg boxes are delivered to Glastonbury, Street and villages surrounding the farm - you can find out more on their website plotgatecommunityfarm.org #CSA #nodig #veg #glastonbury #biodiversity

This weeks CSA member is Newquay Community Orchard

This weeks CSA member is Newquay Community Orchard’s CSA Market Garden which officially started up in June 2021. They have one member Canteen @ the Orchard who use all the fresh produce from their 1/2 acre no dig plot. Their amazing team of volunteers learn horticultural skills, make friends and build community, whilst working together at the orchard. They are provided by a lovely lunch from Canteen each volunteering day. They have been there for six years on the seven acre site in the Heart of Newquay. There is also a kitchen garden, forest garden, fruit orchards and wood work shops and community building and co - work space. Volunteers take home produce and can learn all sorts of skills mostly centred around living a more sustainable way. The CSA Market garden fits in so well with Newquay Orchard’s ethos and values and is a great way of showing how a truly local food system can benefit all. 🌳🌳🌳🍎🍊🍐🍏
#CSA #community #orchard #newquay #marketgarden @newquay_orchard @canteenorchard

Transition Turriefield is Britain’s most norther

Transition Turriefield is Britain’s most northerly CSA veg box scheme. Based on a croft in the far west mainland of Shetland, the community growing group has been running since 2011. The veg box scheme converted to a CSA in 2016. They have over 50 volunteers who help to produce over 10
tonne of fresh produce each season which goes out to the community through their 30 box veg box
scheme and rural shops. It’s not easy growing at 60 degrees north, but they think it’s really important that Shetland grows more of its own food, reduces the amount of fruit and veg we import and becomes more food
secure. Recently Transition Turriefield launched their own Grow Shetland project, supported by their Local Authority, to
work with individuals, groups, fresh produce. This project will increase the quantity of local food, reduce Shetland’s food related
carbon footprint and also contribute to the reduction of food poverty in the Isles. More information at www.turrifieldveg.co.uk<http://www.turrifieldveg.co.uk> #CSA #scotland #shetlands #croft #community

Are you at @landworkersalliance Skill Share weeken

Are you at @landworkersalliance Skill Share weekend? We’re talking all about CSAs and their benefits in this tent at 11am today. Join us! #communitysupportedagriculture #csauk #regenerativefarming #agroecology

How can we grow basic crops efficiently yet regene

How can we grow basic crops efficiently yet regeneratively? Join us, @organicgrowersalliance , @pitneyfarmmarketgarden, Tolhurst Organic and @glebelandsmarketgarden in this webinar exploring field-scale production. This webinar seeks to debunk the myths of #field-scale production and show how it can be done #regeneratively and #agroecologically without huge investments. We’ll look at rotation, technical issues of production, and machinery to support you in producing the staple crops economically. We will also discuss the skills required and how to acquire them. Speakers 🧑🏽‍🌾👩‍🌾
Rita Oldenbourg of Glebe Farm, Pitney in Somerset will talk about how, as a new entrant, she got tractor experience, how and why they grow staples at their market garden, and about how they are using machinery but still always keeping soil health in mind. Iain Tolhurst (Tolly) of Tolhurst Organic has been growing organically since 1976 and is one of the country's most highly respected organic growers and advisers. He grows 17 acres of field vegetables in addition to a 2 acre walled garden, supplying their own box scheme, farmers markets and veg shed. Tolly will outline basic machinery requirements, rotations and fertility building needed for growing the staples. Adam York grows organically on 8 acres at @glebelandsmarketgarden near Cardigan in West Wales after it's earlier incarnation in South Manchester. They started off growing specific crops for @unicorngrocery while the current Glebelands is testing a farmshop model of direct selling to the public in a market town catchment. Adam will talk on the challenges of setting up field scale production from scratch and making the most of your resources. #organic #CSA #farming #marketgarden #fieldscale #production #crops

This weeks new CSA member Lazy Meadow is a first y

This weeks new CSA member Lazy Meadow is a first year no dig, veganic market garden operating on a 1 acre site in Cornwall. It’s an activist-run project led by anti-factory farming campaigners Pru Elliott and Rich Hardy. Currently a CSA in formation we’re delivering veggies to households in Falmouth, Truro and Redruth on a weekly basis. #nodig #marketgardening #falmouth

We’ve been speaking to the excellent new @foodgr

We’ve been speaking to the excellent new @foodgroweracademy podcast all about CSA and how it can benefit people, producers and planet here in the UK. Share, give them a follow and listen to the latest episode!
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#communitysupportedagriculture #smallfarms #regenerativefarming #sustainablefarming #csauk

Looking forward to the @landworkersalliance Land S

Looking forward to the @landworkersalliance Land Skills Fair in August? So are we.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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CSA grower, farmer, member? We need your help to make our Friday morning session at the fair a success. Get in touch by DM or email csanetworkpolicy@gmail.com csanetworkcomms@gmail.com⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The fair will be sharing knowledge and skills about farming, forestry, crafts, food and land justice; connecting with each other through a mix of workshops, talks, activities, music, food and drinks.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Reminder of this excellent webinar next week from

Reminder of this excellent webinar next week from @organicgrowersalliance as part of our Farming the Future series. Still a few tickets left free for members of @landworkersalliance @organicgrowersalliance @csanetwork_uk This session will explore the reasons why soil is so important to organic production systems, what the threats are to soil-based production, and how we as growers can maximise the vitality of our soils for healthy crops, people and planet. Dave Chapman runs @longwindfarm WindFarm in Vermont, USA and is the Executive Director of the @realorganicproject. @jonathanonscilly of Scilly Organics grows organic fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers on the island of St Martins, Isles of Scilly. He uses seaweed, compost and green manures for soil health. He is a Director of Farm Carbon Toolkit and wrote and co-developed the Farm Carbon Calculator supporting growers to assess carbon emissions and sequestration on the land they steward.

Want to know more about soil? This upcoming webina

Want to know more about soil? This upcoming webinar is for you, taking place on Wednesday 28th July at 7pm. This session will explore the reasons why soil is so important to organic production systems, what the threats are to soil-based production, and how we as growers can maximise the vitality of our soils for healthy crops, people and planet.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Dave Chapman runs Long Wind Farm in Vermont, USA and is the Executive Director of the Real Organic Project. Dave has thought deeply about the importance of soil. Organic standards in the US have evolved to be very different to those here in Europe, in several key ways, not least through soil-less growing, such as hydroponics, now being eligible for official organic certification.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Jonathan Smith of Scilly Organics grows organic fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers on the island of St Martins, Isles of Scilly. He uses seaweed, compost and green manures for soil health. Jonathan will tell us about how he nurtures the sandy soils he works on and the soil analysis he uses. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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This webinar is being organised by the @organicgrowersalliance as part of a series the @LWA are running with us and Seed Sovereignty Programme. The webinar programme focuses on practical teaching and farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchanges from farmers and growers from around the UK. The series is designed to increase knowledge exchange and learning on both the politics and practice of agroecology, seed sovereignty and food sovereignty.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#soilhealth #agroecology #organicfarming #foodsovereignty

Our CSA Network member in the spotlight this week

Our CSA Network member in the spotlight this week is Jubilee Farm, the first community-owned farm in Northern Ireland. It is owned by Jubilee Community Benefit Society and its 155 member-owners. They practice and promote care farming, conservation education and engagement, and community supported agriculture. Their CSA, also the first of its kind in the province, produces vegetables, pork and goat on 13.5 acres overlooking the beautiful Larne Lough. Can we come and visit?
@jubilee.coop #CSA #communityfarm #care #veg #pigs Get in contact if you’d like to be featured next

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