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CSA's
on Our Route: August's Farm Tour:
On This Site: Information:
This Tour sponsored by:
We will be presenting a workshop from our tour at this year's Great Lakes BIONEERS Conference
This BLOG is sponsored & maintained by The Great Lakes BIONEERS Follow your bliss & may the wind be behind you...
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What is a CSA? Community Supported Agriculture... Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a growing social and agricultural movement in Michigan and across the U.S. In a time when family farms are an endangered species and food is an international commodity, CSA can offer a path to farm preservation, stability and profitability, at the same time that it connects people with their food supply and builds community. Community Supported Agriculture links the source of food (the farm and farmer) to the destination of the food (the consumer, or eater). Farm members, as partners with the farmer, share the benefits and the risks of agriculture.
So why did we spend our summer biking and farming across Michigan? Well, we plan to start a CSA farm of our own in northwest Michigan and this was a great opportunity to learn more about managing a CSA. Michelle had recently completed a Master’s degree in horticulture at Michigan State University where she was managing the Student Organic Farm, a 48-week CSA farm. Marty was working with the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU.
In addition to learning more about CSAs ourselves, we also hope to raise public awareness about CSAs in Michigan by soliciting media coverage of our tour and by documenting the tour and farms on video. We plan to create a 20-30 minute documentary that demonstrates, through the story of our bicycle journey, the many facets of CSA.
Click here for more information on the Documentary Project
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