[MedicalConspiracies] Fwd: Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook

From: outreach@sare.org
To: rosegojda@aol.com
Sent: 4/26/2010 9:14:23 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook

 

Written by former CSA growers and members Scott Franzblau and Jill Perry, Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook offers clear and straightforward guidance on an innovative practice that is helping CSAs stay strong and viable over the long term: cooperative marketing.
 
The 126-page book details how farmers can use CSA cooperatives to best market their produce, including advice on staffing, volunteer boards, distribution, legal topics and other practical information.
 
The book also includes a chapter on crop selection, calculating shares and adjusting to seasonal change, as well as a series of multifarm CSA profiles from around the country. Readers can adapt the book's sample documents to their situations, gaining practical help with planning, marketing agreements, packing standards and the organizational process.  
 
A CSA is considered a partnership between farmer and member, and Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook offers a framework for how these partnerships can work best to reduce labor costs, assure sales and address the quality requested by CSA members.
 
Download Local Harvest: A Multifarm CSA Handbook for free at www.sare.org/publications/csa.htm. To order print copies ($3.99 plus $5.95 s/h) visit www.sare.org/WebStore, call 301/374-9696 or send check or money order to SARE Outreach, PO Box 753, Waldorf, Maryland 20604-0753. (Please specify title requested when ordering by mail.)