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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: New CSA National Directory (fwd)
  • Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:22:30 -0500 (EST)



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:46:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Kirsten Saylor <kir139@yahoo.com>
To: CSAlist <CSA-L@prairienet.org>
Cc: san@nal.usda.gov, rfarm@jps.net
Subject: Re: New CSA National Directory

Hi all,

Below is an email from Andy Clark, Director of the Sustainable Agriculture
Network,
which, along with the National Agricultural Library, is putting together this
national
listing. I hope that nearly everyone who reads this has already been called,
or mailed
by us within the last couple of weeks. If you haven't responded, please
email me (or
Andy) and include the info Andy describes in his email below. We want to
make sure that
each farm that is on the list has agreed to be on the list -- so if we
haven't heard from
you, make sure we do...

Richard, you beat us to the punch. When you visit the CSA website Richard
gave, please
note that this is was just our "test" list and we are working on the new and
revised
listing right now and aiming to have it up by the end of this week. We are
still
developing the website, so if you have any suggestions, please forward them
to me or to
Andy.

Thanks!
Kirsten Saylor
Sustainable Agriculture Network
ksaylor@nal.usda.gov


Colleagues:

In anticipation of some media publicity about Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA), we
are compiling a national listing/database of CSA farms (USA only at this
time). To be
available in print (by state) and on the web, we need to finalize the list
by November
10.

The potential to generate consumer interest in CSAs is very large. The
public will be
directed to a web site or a mailing address to ?find a CSA farm near you.?
Any CSA not
on the list will miss an opportunity to have potential shareholders find
them. Although
response by the public is impossible to predict, we anticipate thousands of
snail-mail or
web hits. I am excited by the ?teachable moments? this could generate with
respect to
the general public and our food system.

Therefore, I am calling on all CSA farms to contact my office by November 8.
Those 350
or so that have already been in touch, no need to contact us again. Please
see below for
the exact information we are requesting.

I have been working with about a dozen organizations nationwide that maintain
lists of
CSA farms, and we have contacted all CSAs on the lists these groups have
shared with me.
If you maintain a list of CSA farms, please send that to me electronically.
We will
credit all organizations that share lists with us.

If you know of CSA farms or know the farmers, please consider one of the
following:

1) e-mail me (san@nal.usda.gov) with farm name and contact information;
2) call my voice mail 24 hours a day (301-504-6425) with farm name and contact
information;
3) go to the web and fill out the form there
(http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa/csaform.htm);

4) ask the CSA to e-mail or call me or send a FAX to 301-504-6409 or go to
the web and
submit a form (see below for information we are requesting).

My apologies for the RUSH on this. I do not expect to be able to respond to
replies to
this message except those that include CSA information. I will be in touch
later with
more details. MANY THANKS for anything you can do to put me in touch with
CSA farms in
the USA.

A note about the WE in this message. The Sustainable Agriculture Network
(SAN--the
outreach arm of the SARE program) and the Alternative Farming Systems
Information Center
(AFSIC) at the National Agricultural Library, are working with other
Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) personnel and with USDA Cooperative
State
Research, Education and Extension (CSREES) to compile and make this national
listing
available in print and on the web. I?ve done practically nothing else in the
past month.


See http://www.sare.org
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic
http://www.reeusda.gov

WE ARE REQUESTING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FROM CSA FARMS. Fill in only
what you want
published. At this time, we will not publish information about the organic
certification
status of the CSA.

CSA Listing

Preferred format for e-mail reply is address format without the item
descriptors (except
FAX).

Farm Name
Operator Name
Address
Phone
FAX
e-mail
URL
Area/county served
Permission to list? YES NO
Certified Organic? YES NO

Many thanks again to everyone else helping on this project!

Andy

--- Richard Roth <rfarm@jps.net> wrote:
> Jayne Shord of the USDA in Washington is putting together a "complete"
> directory of CSA's in the US. It is going to be posted on the web at
> <http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa> (the page is up now, without the CSA
> listings but with many relevant links, but will be different as it
> develops). Her email address is jayneshord@usa.net .
>
> If you want to be included (I realize that some will not.) she will need
> your farm name, your name, address, phone #, email address, and web page
> address if you have them.
> --
> Richard Roth
> rfarm
> 1318 Bruce Street
> Chico, CA 95928
> Ph:(530) 895-1672
> <http://www.jps.net/rfarm>.




  • Re: New CSA National Directory (fwd), Lawrence F. London, Jr., 11/03/1999

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