Winter is the time for planning, dreaming and learning in the agricultural calendar, which is why our masterclasses kick off in January. This series is one of the key trainings we offer annually as part of our commitment to growing...

You want to produce food - but that's just the beginning. To make a CSA project work, you need a shared purpose, a clear direction, and a way to stay focused when everything feels urgent and possible at the same...

One of the biggest challenges in growing food is ensuring a steady, reliable supply. When your business depends on delivering a consistent quantity and quality of produce every week - through all seasons - you quickly realise how tricky that...

For a CSA to truly succeed, you need a clear vision of what success looks like and a concrete plan to get there. What equipment and infrastructure will you need? How much produce must you grow? How will you budget...

If you’re keen to start a CSA, your first instinct is to dive straight into growing food and selling shares. But before you can do that, there’s a host of tricky, less exciting issues to sort out. What insurance do...

Members are at the heart of every CSA. Without them, your project simply can’t exist. So how do you attract members and, just as importantly, how do you keep them? Every CSA faces the challenge of recruiting and retaining a...

When you start a CSA, you’re immediately faced with a long list of decisions. And when you’re ready to grow, an entirely new set of considerations comes into play. What equipment best suits your project? How can you make the...

Adding flowers to your farm is a great way to diversify and help increase revenue without needing to change your set-up and sales methods. In this masterclass, CSA Network UK board member Hannah Lamb of thriving CSA farm, Yorkshire Edible Flowers...

Join agroforestry expert Ben Raskin for a deep dive into how combining trees with vegetable production can transform your CSA, turning a conventional box-scheme into a resilient, biodiverse, climate-smart farm. Discover how agroforestry can: Improve soil health, biodiversity and ecological...

From Chagford CSA in Devon:Chagford CSA is a ten-acre community-supported market garden on the north-east edge of Dartmoor supplying 130 CSA veg-shares a week to local households. We’re going into our seventeenth growing-season and looking to recruit a part-time Assistant...

This year has tested us all, from rising costs and erratic weather to shifting farm policy and the ongoing strain of keeping food both fair and local. Yet across the UK, our community supported agriculture (CSA) farms have kept feeding...

The last few months have seen the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Network UK welcome Jude Woods to the team to work on a new project in West Yorkshire, generously funded by the JJ Charitable Trust and Roger Ross from Serve...

Earlier this year, we surveyed small-scale growers across England to understand how the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is working for farms under 5 hectares, following the welcome removal of the minimum area threshold in July 2024. The survey, run by...

In March, our staff team and board of directors took a trip to Leeds for our annual “away day”, more than an opportunity to gather the people behind the CSA Network from the various pockets of the UK we work...

We’ve just launched the first of this year's CSA Network two-day, in-person training courses designed for growers, organisers, and landworkers who are ready to build rooted, community-powered food systems. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to grow your existing...

At our Annual General Meeting last week, Laurence and Adele of Soul Farm gave an informal presentation about how their farm converted to a cooperative and ran a community investment campaign that raised £350k in community shares. The video can...

The CSA Network UK AGM is coming up! All members are invited to join us on Tuesday 8th October at 3-5pm. Only CSA farm members, however, will have voting rights. We’ll cover the usual AGM bits, keeping you in touch with the work you’re supporting and...

Following on from two successful previous schemes that ended last year, this spring the CSA Network UK launched a new programme to provide support to CSAs in the process of getting off the ground. Thanks to Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust...