Record Number of CSA Vegetable Farms
Featured in 2007 Twin Cities Directory
Regional Growth of CSA Operations Follows National Trend
CONTACT: Brian DeVore, LSP, 612-729-6294, bdevore@landstewardshipproject.org
3/19/07
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn.—Spring is here andTwin Cities-area consumers who want to receive fresh, organically-produced vegetables on a weekly basis during the 2007 growing season should reserve a share in a Community Supported Agriculture farm now.The 2007 edition of the Twin Cities Region Community Supported Agriculture Farm Directory features 33 farms, the most since the Land Stewardship Project began publishing the directory over a decade ago. For a free copy, log onto www.landstewardshipproject.org/csa.html. For a paper copy, call the Land Stewardship Project at 651-653-0618, or stop by its downtown White Bear Lake office at 2200 4th Street (second level).
Community Supported Agriculture, also known as CSA, is an arrangement where people buy shares in a farming operation on an annual basis. In return, the farmers provide a weekly supply of fresh, natural produce throughout the growing season (approximately June to October). Shares are often sold out by early spring. The details of the share arrangements and the prices charged for the shares vary from farm-to-farm.
Some three-dozen CSA farms have sprung up in the Twin Cities-western Wisconsin region within the past 18 years, providing consumers a wide variety of choices. This growth in CSA farms follows a national trend—approximately 1,200 such operations are now serving consumers throughout the United States, according to a recent Time magazine cover story (www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245,00.html).
To read more about one Twin Cities-area CSA farming operation, see www.landstewardshipproject.org/fb/profiles/hemberger.htm.
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