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FarmStart placement: a one-year, part-time training programme in North Lancashire – Starting March 2024
FarmStart is looking for a group of committed, enthusiastic and local trainee FarmStarters to join their market-garden team at Old Holly Farm (near Garstang) and polytunnel in White Lund (Morecambe) for an entire growing season of training in 2024. FarmStart is a year-long programme where you spend two days a week working with an experienced…
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Gaining Local Media Coverage – Webinar 10-12 – Mon 4th December 2023
More people read and trust the local press than the national newspapers. Small food enterprises can reach new customers by getting featured in local newspapers, or be interviewed on regional radio or TV. What are media outlets looking for and how do you approach them? PR professional Robin Clegg (Curve Communications) is offering this popular…
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Funding for woodland and recycling projects in GB, Wales and Scotland – Early December deadlines.
WHOLE UK: Grants for the Planting and Care of Trees, Hedges & Orchards (UK) Deadline 3rd December 2023 Through the Fund, schools, community groups, parish and town councils, and tree warden networks within the UK will be able to apply for grants of between £250 and £2,500 to get communities and young people up to…
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CSA Network UK AGM 2023 in Bristol
The first weekend of October saw a group of CSA Network UK staff and board members together with CSAs new and old – and some not even started yet – come together at St. Werburghs City Farm in Bristol for a beautiful two days of deep talking, sharing and visiting local CSAs. Here are some…
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Reform the Grocery Supply Code of Practice to better protect farmers.
Perhaps this is something you could consider signing? Riverford started it and is asking the government to protect farmers by extending the remit of the Grocery Supply Code of Practice so that retailers are required to: – Buy what they agreed to buy – Pay what they agreed to pay – Pay on time Not…
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Cae Felin CSA Crowdfund for a volunteer shelter
Cae Felin CSA in North East Swansea is an interesting CSA project linked to Morriston Hospital. It provides the staff, patients and visitors of Morriston Hospital direct access to the beauty and tranquillity of nature on their doorstep. They need to build a timber shelter to run sessions on therapeutic horticulture, environmental education and citizen…
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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 plants. It’s an experimental technique…
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Scottish Gathering Report
Thirty people attended our recent Scottish gathering on The Black Isle near Inverness on the 16th and 17th of September which was generously supported by The Pebble Trust. Sessions on Food System Resilience and Economic Resilience were especially well received. It was inspiring to connect with others and hear about both established and new projects…
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Futureproofing CSA – Growing Resilience – 10 years of CSA – 7th and 8th October in Bristol
In our small sector of the farming world, we’re facing times of extremes and uncertainty. An array of economic and climactic factors beyond our control make running a CSA more challenging. But that doesn’t mean we can’t limit the impact of external pressures on our lives. Because of the increasing uncertainties, we’ve decided to give…
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Free, Fully-Funded Mentoring Visits in the West of England
Thanks to generous funding from the Postcode Local Trust, we are really pleased to be able to offer six free mentoring day visits to start-up CSAs in the West of England. The areas covered include Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Any CSA or start-up CSA who is a network…
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Navigating the Community Ownership Fund for Land Stewardship – Free Webinar
Are you part of a land-based project working for social and environmental goals and needing support for your long-term finances? Shared Assets are running a free webinar to empower groups and social enterprises with insights on accessing grants and securing long-term stewardship models for land. The webinar will discuss the Community Ownership Fund, which supports…
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Land Matching
Together with the Landworkers Alliance, Ecological Land Cooperative and Shared Assets, CSA Network UK has been working towards creating an agroecological land matching service. An agroecological land-matching service aims to put more land into agroecological farming. The service will do this by matching those looking for land to farm in an agroecological way with landowners…
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Meet Our New Director, Dr Sally Bell
Dr Sally BellHaving many different people with a wealth of experience and knowledge as part of your CSA is a good thing. We believe in the same principle within CSA Network UK. A diverse board with wide experience is a constant objective. We’ve recently welcomed GP Dr Sally Bell onto our board. She brings new…
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Scottish CSA and Small Farm Gathering – 16-17th September on The Black Isle, Inverness
This gathering is your opportunity to connect with other growers, farmers and land workers in Scotland. We have teamed up with the Organic Growers Alliance and Land Workers’ Alliance for this event. The weekend will include talks and time for socialising, with tours of Glachbeg Croft and Knockfarrel Produce CSA. The weekend theme is resilience in…
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Report Launch: Increasing Inclusion in Community Supported Agriculture
Our CSAs do a fantastic job producing nutritious food grown agro-ecologically, and building strong, mutually supportive food communities around their businesses. Our growers and farmers are at the forefront of transitioning to the sustainable food system we need for planetary survival. At the same time, one of the significant issues of concern within the global…
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Pest Alert: Colorado potato beetle – July 2023
We’ve had the following warning from Lantra. Pest Alert : Colorado Potato Beetle An outbreak of Colorado Beetle has been confirmed in Kent. Colorado beetle is not endemic to the UK and is a GB quarantine pest. The outbreak in Kent is in a crop of potatoes and live larvae have been found with the…
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Solidarity Payments: A fair income for CSAs – Meet up with Elske Hageraats
We’ve received an email from Elske Hageraats who delivered last years, ‘Fair Income for Fair Food – Solidarity payments for CSA Farms’ webinar. Elske is visiting the UK in August and would love the opportunity to meet and speak with CSA businesses. Here is her email: Dear colleagues & CSA farmers, My name is Elske…
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Grower Opportunity near Leeds in Yorkshire
Well-established CSA on certified organic land is looking for an enthusiastic person to take the business forward. Plenty of scope for expansion and minimum capital is required. Looking for an experienced grower able to produce business as well as cropping plans. Further opportunities on the farm could be available as the owner is heading for…
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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 October to February, so growers…
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CSA Start-up and Scaling-up, a two-day intensive training course in September 2023.
CSA Network UK is pleased to announce that Ed Hamer will host his 10th ‘CSA Start-up and Scaling-up,’ two-day intensive training course on the 9th and 10th of September 2023 at his farm in Chagford, Devon. This course will build on the first-hand experience Ed has gained in establishing his own CSAs over the past…