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Starting a CSA

Getting Started

  • Community Supported Agriculture - ATTRA
  • Community Supported Agriculture - USDA
  • Equity Trust
  • Grower to Grower: Creating a Livelihood on a Fresh Market Vegetable Farm - University of Wisconsin
  • Just Food
  • Local Harvest
  • LocallyGrown.net
  • North Carolina CHOICES: Connecting Farmers with Consumers
  • Permaculture - Sustainable Farming, Ranching, Living... by Designing Ecosystems That Imitate Nature - SARE
  • Permaculture Institute
  • Project Green Leaf: Supporting a Local Agro-Food System - UNC-Greensboro
  • Restaurant Supported Agriculture - Slow Food USA
  • Small Farm Central
  • The Northeast Regional Food Guide - Cornell University Cooperative Extension
  • Urgenci.net - international CSA network
  • Workplace Community Supported Agriculture: Connecting Local Farms to Local Employers - Center for Environmental Farming Systems

Other Resources

Crop Scheduling for Continuous Harvest
  • Number of weeks to harvest (for scheduling seeding and planting dates)
  • ​Starting transplants
  • ​Setting transplants into the field Direct seeding

Read more at: https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms-farmrecords/
csaplanning1.xls
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Planning Spreadsheets for CSA and Farmers’ Markets
  • Produce availability calendar for 34 vegetable crops
  • Calendar for designing CSA “full share” composition
  • Calendar for designing CSA “half share” composition
  • Calendars for farmers’ markets
  • Farm totals = CSA shares + farmers’ markets produce
  • Field production information related to total farm sale goals;
           (this sheet calculates)
                   number of plantings
                   number of harvests
                   total row feet needed
                   total amount of seed needed
                   row feet needed per planting
                   nitrogen needed per planting
                   potassium needed per planting
                   value ($) per crop
                   ​total acreage gross revenue
                   Yield and production data

Read more at: https://growingsmallfarms.ces.ncsu.edu/growingsmallfarms-farmrecords/
csaplanning2.xls
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  • Grow Your Business
    • Starting a CSA
  • Waikapu Food Hub
  • Agriculture Database
  • Programs
    • Kupa'aina Explorations Program
    • Living Pono Plantation
    • Malama Service Dogs
    • Puʻu Kukui Watershed Preserve
  • Donate
  • Board of Directors
  • Contact Us