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Embracing Community Supported Agriculture: Your Guide to Fresh, Local, and Wholesome Food

Join us on March 5th, 2014 at Third Space to explore the benefits of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Learn about the history, advantages for growers and buyers, challenges, and next steps in this engaging video session. Discover the commitment, learning, and community engagement that come with CSA.

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Embracing Community Supported Agriculture: Your Guide to Fresh, Local, and Wholesome Food

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  1. Welcome

  2. CSA - Community Supported Agriculture 5th March 2014 Third SpaceYour Fresh, Local, Organic, Seasonal and Wholesome Food!

  3. Agenda • Introduction video • Brief history of our CSA group • What is CSA? • Why CSA? • Advantages for growers • Advantages for buyers • Challenges • Next steps • Q&A

  4. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcR2J63_44c

  5. Brief history of our CSA group • Set up in 2013 • Organically grown local plant food in the city • Members • Ongoing process

  6. What is CSA? • Partnership between producers and consumers • Responsibilities, risks and rewards are shared • One or a small number of local producers • Emphasis on local food systems • Members’ active role CSA  is more than a way to feed you with healthy, local and organic food. It is commitment, learning and community engagement.

  7. Why CSA? • Independence/food sovereignty • Health • Environment • Community • Flexibility & control • Long-term sustainability • Self-financing • Widely accessible

  8. Versus

  9. Agriculture model Industrial vs Ecological

  10. Advantages for growers • Enjoy fair pay • Can concentrate on farming • Get a little help – workdays • Unique delivery point • Are part of the community, and accountable to it

  11. Advantages for buyers • Good quality food • Value for money • Straight from source (no middlemen) • Empowering • Trust bond

  12. Next steps • Join our group • Blog http://dublinfarming.wordpress.com • Email: csadublin@gmail.com • Chat to one of us! • Start a CSA group • Resources (http://www.soilassociation.org/communitysupportedagriculture) • Network (CSA Dublin, Skerries, Cloughjordan) • Spread the word!

  13. Questions?

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