CSA

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

Restoring the resilience of UK fruit and vegetable production. Along with the Landworkers' Alliance, Soil Association, Sustain, OF&G Organic, Growing Communities, Regather, The Wildlife Trusts, Propagate and the Better Food Traders we have sent a letter to Steve Reed, the...

A snapshot of CSA in the UK and its impacts CSAs have many public, social and environmental benefits. Our latest member survey and research summarises some of these numerous benefits here. These include: There are around 230+ CSA farms in...

“We shouldn’t be reliant on foreign food,” prime minister Rishi Sunak posted on social media recently. “Buy British.” But his own government have made it harder to do so, farmers and campaigners have warned. Our Network Coordinator Suzy Russell in...

With less than 2 weeks until election day on July 4th, we have prepared a letter that you can send to your local candidates to ask them to support Community Supported Agriculture in your area. Please use this letter as...

The CSA Network has published a new briefing document aimed at local councils around the UK aimed at promoting CSAs and encouraging authorities to support them at a local level. The document is a great point of reference if you'd...

Click the 'Find out more' below any of the farms below to discover how they agroecological farming methods to produce food in a way that minimises carbon emissions, other pollution and plastics and boosts biodiversity while reconnecting communities to the...

Ahead of the local council elections taking place in England 6 May, we would like to invite CSA members to write to their local elected leaders and ask them to support CSA in their local area. Some ways to get...

  When Joanne Mudhar first bought the land for The Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm seven years ago, the soil was utterly dead, with only 2% organic matter and no earthworms. It was just another small piece of land that had been utterly...

  Richard Gorman discusses how animals can fit within the CSA model in this two part blog. There’s been a great deal of research on Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and related models of alternative agriculture, but very little attention has...