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CORE: First steps in your new CSA: Pacing, prioritising and visioning

14th January 2026 – 10:00-12:00 GMT 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 time. CSAs are full... Read More...

CORE: Crop planning, year-round growing and hungry gap ideas

21st January 2026 – 10:00-12:00 GMT 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 can be. Supermarkets, with... Read More...

CORE: Business Planning and Finance

28th January 2026 – 10:00-12:00 GMT 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 for wages and contractor... Read More...

CORE: Land, insurance, people, management and governance

4th February 2026 – 10:00-12:00 GMT 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 you actually need? Which... Read More...

CORE: Engaging and maintaining members, and marketing your CSA

11th February 2026, 10:00-12:00 GMT 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 strong, enthusiastic membership. Without a... Read More...

CORE: Scaling up – Machinery, site design, irrigation and tools

25th February 2026 – 10:00-12:00 GMT Online 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 most of the... Read More...

New! Adding Flowers to your CSA

Wed 4 Mar 2026 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT Online 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... Read More...

New! Adding Agroforestry to your CSA

Wed 11 Mar 2026 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT 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: Whether you’re starting a new CSA... Read More...

New! Building Resilience on your CSA

Wed 18 Mar 2026 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT Extreme and unpredictable weather is no longer a future threat; it’s the daily reality for growers. For small- and medium-scale agroecological farms and CSAs, these pressures are felt most intensely. Yet this scale of farming also holds many of the... Read More...

New! Growing inclusion in your CSA through twinning

Wed 25 Mar 2026 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM GMT | online How can CSAs become truly accessible, welcoming and relevant to the full diversity of the local communities they serve? One promising approach is twinning, bringing two groups, organisations or communities into a long-term, mutually supportive relationship that shares resources, builds... Read More...
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Perennial Green Manures Webinar – Wednesday 15th Nov. 2023 19:30-20:30 GMT

Webinar Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:30 – 20:30 GMT Speaker: Clo Ward: Clo (Chloe) Ward is currently the researcher for the Perennial Green Manures project, run by Ecodyfi. See https://www.dyfibiosphere.wales/perennial-green-manures for more on the project. Perennial green manures are fertilisers made from the nitrogen-rich leaves of trees, shrubs and perennial... Read More...
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Grow Your Own CSA Online Training Course – October 2023 to February 2024

Fifteen Two hour online training sessions with guest speakers spaced over 15 weeks Tuesdays 5.30 to 7.30 from 10th October 2023 Community Supported Agriculture is a profitable, sociable, and sustainable way to link land and community. We would like to see CSA projects thrive across the UK. The course runs from... Read More...
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Irrigation – A ‘downloadable’ guide and Webinar for new growers by Pete Dollimore

Written by small-scale growing irrigation expert Pete Dollimore, this guide is designed to complement the series of courses that Pete is running on our behalf. Funded by Farming the Future and run with the Organic Growers Alliance and The Gaia Foundations Seed Sovereignty project, this series of webinars are perfect... Read More...
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Webinar – Real-life Irrigation Stories – Tuesday 25th April 7-8:30 pm

Join three experienced growers: Pete Dollimore, Iain Tolhurst and Dan Larke, as they share stories of irrigation systems they have known, loved, created and despised throughout their time as growers. This webinar leads on from the session last week to look at the application of irrigation knowledge in the field.... Read More...
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Webinar – An Introduction to Small-scale Irrigation with Pete Dollimore – Recorded Tuesday 18th April 2023

Join Pete Dollimore as he talks us through his updated guide to irrigation for small-scale growers. The guide gives an overview of the commonly used installations with details of concepts, terminology, equipment, design and some related aspects to consider.  It will also provide tools and techniques to help growers estimate... Read More...
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Planning for Uncertainty: Contingency Planning for Small Farms – Workshop

What do you do when things go wrong? Having a plan to deal with uncertain times is a good thing to have right now. Suzy Russell of CSA Network UK gives us a planning tool for assessing risk. Katy Barker of Growing Communities looks at how to improve resilience by... Read More...
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Growing peg plants – bare root transplants – Webinar

This webinar explored the potential of ‘peg plants’ as an agroecological and sustainable alternative to transplants in modules and blocks. It covered the opportunities and challenges of growing peg plants. What crops are best-suited? How much space do you need? How do the costs compare? Do I need to change... Read More...
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Winter Brassicas For Continuity – Webinar

Brassicas are the biggest and most valuable crop family for winter sales. How can growers provide continuity in an uncertain climate? The summer heatwave and the mild autumn have played havoc with many brassica growers continuity plans. How can growers plan their cropping plans to be resilient? We are joined... Read More...

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