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Read our annual report for 2024-2025 to find out how we have been supporting and advocating for our member farms
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Three Turnips Market Garden is seeking a head grower
Full-time grower (single or a couple) required immediately – accommodation available – at The Three Turnips market garden at Lower Hampen Farm, Andoversford, Glos GL54 4JJ Applicants must be enthusiastic and passionate about growing a diverse range of veg in an organic, no-dig system to supply our small farm shop and the local community all…
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Market gardener at Stone Farm, East Sussex
Stone Farm is a 40-acre, family-run, mixed farm and micro dairy in the High Weald of East Sussex. The farm is set up as a raw milk micro-dairy, and this year we are launching a veg box CSA scheme. This will start from a small but established chemical free, no-dig vegetable garden that has previously…
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Assistant grower at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Leeds
Assistant Grower📍 Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Leeds⏱ Part-time, fixed term (12 months, with a view to becoming permanent)💷 £12.71 per hour📅 Start: April 2026 Meanwood Valley Urban Farm is looking for an Assistant Grower to join their small Market Garden team. You’ll help grow high-quality organic vegetables for their year-round CSA veg box scheme, working…
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Land opportunity at Upper Marsh Farm, Wiltshire
Upper Marsh Farm, Wiltshire, is offering up to 3 hectares for an experienced grower to establish an organic market garden (vegetables and/or flowers) as part of the farm’s transition toward regenerative land use. The opportunity is suited to someone with practical experience who is looking to run a commercial growing enterprise, with flexible terms to…
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We have a new development worker in Wales!
Eva Walter Jones recently joined our team as our CSA development worker in Wales, working on the ground to grow the CSA movement there and help us work out how best we can support Welsh CSAs as a network. We asked her a few questions about how she sees the new role. What are you…
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Our 2026 CSA Masterclasses are open for booking!
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 the community supported agriculture (CSA) movement across the UK to realise our vision of everyone…
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Chagford CSA is hiring an Assistant Grower
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 Grower for six-months from mid April – mid October 2026. We have recently moved…
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Rooted in Resilience: How CSAs Kept Growing Through Another Tough Year
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 people, building soil, supporting biodiversity and nurturing connection. It’s no small thing. Our 2024–25 Annual…
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New Shoots in Leeds
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 All Trust. Jude is bringing their considerable experience of community engagement work to a project…
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Small Farms Still Face Big Barriers: What Our 5Ha Survey Revealed
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 the UK Fruit & Vegetable Coalition (including CSA Network UK, Landworkers Alliance, Organic Growers Alliance,…
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Getting Grounded in Leeds: What We Learned from Visiting CSA Farms
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 in. We met with CSA farms and community projects, at different stages of development, in…
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Next in-person training this July – Setting Up and Scaling Up Your CSA with Ed Hamer
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 CSA, this course offers the tools, insight and inspiration to take your next steps with…
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How a CSA farm in the UK raised £350K in community investment
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 now be viewed below or on our YouTube channel (subscribe for more CSA content), complete…
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Annual General Meeting + How to raise £350K in investment
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 then we’ll talk about accessing vital funds for the valuable work you’re doing! Network Co-ordinator…
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Meet some of our new CSAs
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 we had funding for six places on the programme but with so many exciting new…
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Double the land used to grow fruit and veg
We have backed an open letter coordinated by the Soil Association to the new Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling him to back and scale-up British fruit and vegetable farming. Along with other farming and environmental groups, influencers and TV presenters we have sent the letter asking the Prime Minister to double the land used for…
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Land Matching
We are part of a working group investigating the viability of a new Land Matching service for England which will bring new entrants, landworkers, landholders and landowners together to open up more space for farming and growing. The CSA Network UK, Shared Assets, The Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture, The Landworkers’ Alliance, Tamar Grow Local community interest…
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Our demands for the new government
This is a prime moment to write to your local elected candidate (no matter which political party they are part of) to tell them all about the numerous public, social and environmental benefits of CSA and encourage them to provide more support. You can even invite them to visit your CSA farm if you are connected…
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CSA Member survey 2024
A snapshot of CSA in the UK and its impacts are summarised in this one pager here. Here we share a more detailed overview of the 2024 member survey results, thank you to all those who took part. A survey sent to the 190 CSA Network UK member farms in January 2024 had 78 responses.…
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New research finds more farmers trying CSA
Almost 40% of farmers said they were trying out Community Supported Agriculture to diversify their farm. Research of 100 freehold farmers across the UK, from wealth manager Investec Wealth & Investment, have found that farmers are diversifying traditional arable, dairy, or livestock farming to use their land in new ways to increase or supplement their…