Community Supported Agriculture

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Community Supported Agriculture chart of food production.
Community Supported Agriculture chart of food production.
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The CSA garden provides bushels of glistening green peppers.
The CSA garden provides bushels of glistening green peppers.

Two former MOTHER EARTH NEWS gardeners are breaking ground on a radical new concept in farming called Community Supported Agriculture. (See the food production chart in the image gallery.)

Community Supported Agriculture

“DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR Farmer is tonight?”

Rod Shouldice, head of a bio-dynamic community in Kimberton, Pennsylvania, asks the question–a query first amusing, then haunting. “Our very existence depends upon what we eat,” he continues. “Somebody out there is growing the substance of our physical bodies. Are they dumping all kinds of toxic stuff on what is ultimately going to be us?”

Should ice’s remarks describe a problem common to many conscientious consumers: How can a person control the quality of the produce that he or she eats? But look at the original question from a grower’s point of view, and it becomes, “Do I know where my buyer is tonight?”

  • Published on Nov 1, 1988
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