Sharing the harvest
Subtitle: a citizen's guide to Community Supported Agriculture
By: Elizabeth Henderson with Robyn Van En ; foreword by Joan Dye Gussow.
Contributors: Van En, Robyn.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Published: 2007
Place of publication: White River Junction, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781933392103
Subjects: Collective farms -- United States; Community gardens -- United States; Agriculture, Cooperative -- United States; Farm produce -- United States -- Marketing; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is Community Supported Agriculture?; title: CSA and the global supermarket; title: Creating a CSA; title: Choosing a farm or farmer; title: The land; title: Nurturing a solid core group; title: Labor; title: Sharers on the farm; title: Money matters for CSAs; title: Legalities; title: To certify or not to certify?; title: Community and communications; title: Growing the food; title: Handling the harvest; title: Distributing the harvest; title: The weekly share; title: Combining CSA with other markets; title: Regional networking for farm-based regional development; title: Multifarm CSAs; title: Matching biodiversity with social diversity; title: Agriculture supported communities; title: CSA around the world; title: CSAs that quit.