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