Sequatchie Cove FarmQuestions About Organic Farming and Community Supported Agriculture Programs | http://sequatchiecovefarm.com a sustainable farm of 300 acres in southeast tennessee Tue, 08 May 2012 00:22:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 a sustainable farm of 300 acres in southeast tennessee Sequatchie Cove Farm no a sustainable farm of 300 acres in southeast tennessee Sequatchie Cove FarmQuestions About Organic Farming and Community Supported Agriculture Programs | http://sequatchiecovefarm.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://sequatchiecovefarm.com/category/faq/ What is a CSA? http://sequatchiecovefarm.com/2009/faq/what-is-a-csa/ http://sequatchiecovefarm.com/2009/faq/what-is-a-csa/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000 Padgett Arnold http://sequatchiecovefarm.com/?p=161 CSA – Community Supported Agriculture – is the deliberate reciprocal relationship between a farm and its surrounding community. A group of people willingly gather around a farm and support the farm’s budget for growing high quality food using socially and environmentally responsible methods that conserve and uphold the integrity of the farm’s land and resources – from water to soil to plant to animal to human. The farm in turn commits to bringing that group of people its best quality produce on a weekly basis for a given number of weeks throughout the growing season.

The CSA members, or “shareholders”, share in the risks as well as the bounty of the given growing season, providing a direct link to the source of their food, as well as a meaningful relationship to local agriculture in their community. It is a “win-win” scenario – a farm provides people with nourishing, seasonal, fresh food, and those people’s direct support allows that farm to thrive and continue responsible stewardship of the land.

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