Posts tagged with: CSA

Workplace CSA’s – Get Your Veggies While You Work

By Laura McDermott / July 1, 2013

Pilot Program Increases Farmer’s Business and Employee Wellness. Despite an abundance of farmers’ markets and farm stands, consumers still purchase produce at grocery stores.  Let’s face it – people go…

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Using Photographs to Market Your Farm

By John Suscovich / January 7, 2013

  We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. So, by that math, you can write a 10,000 word article about your farm in ten photographs. Wouldn’t…

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Growing Communities

By Mason Donovan / June 27, 2012

In the beginning of our humble American nation, we had strong communities tied around local family farms.  As we grew in population, the farms decreased along with the community connection. …

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Faces of our Food System: Garden Gate Delivery

By Becca Jablonski / June 27, 2012

This article is the third in a series highlighting distributors of New York State farm-grown products.  For our third spotlight, I spoke to Marlo Capoccia, the Owner of Garden Gate…

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Building the C in CSA: Websites, Newsletters and Blogs for Community Supported Agriculture Members

By Elizabeth Lamb / October 3, 2011

The first things that come to mind when starting a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farming operation probably relate more to the what, where, when, and who of growing crops than…

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Boat-to-Fork Community Supported Fisheries Riding a Wave

By Martha Herbert Izzi / October 3, 2011

We are pleased to introduce the community supported fisheries model in this edition and to feature two of the producers and one distributor who are creating the roadmap for direct…

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Steps to a Solidarity Economy: Farmer-Farmer and Farmer-Consumer Cooperatives in Community Supported Agriculture

By Elizabeth Henderson / April 2, 2011

While a few energetic and competent farmers manage to run CSAs by themselves or with only their families and employees, they are missing the opportunities for broader participation and support…

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Cropsey Community Farm

By Charlie Paolino / January 9, 2011

For the small farmer, one of the most basic tenets of our mission – to grow food for ourselves and our community –  is becoming increasingly difficult due to one…

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Small is Beautiful: Making a Living with 12 Cows on Wake Robin Farm

By Adrienne Masler / July 4, 2010

FROM VEGETABLES TO DAIRY After operating a vegetable CSA for six years at Wake Robin Farm in Jordan, NY, Meg and Bruce Schader agreed that they would rather milk cows. …

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Online Marketing – a Review of Local Harvest

By Michelle Podolec / July 4, 2010

  Are you looking to increase your local marketing power? Marketing your CSA, local and organic produce can quickly get expensive and time consuming.  A simple online tool to add…

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