CSA - Community Supported Agriculture

One, increasingly popular, form of CSA allows consumers to schedule regular deliveries of local, organic fruit and vegetables (usually picked the day before) to be delivered to your community and/or doorstep.

·       USDA on CSA ( www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csadef.shtml ) …”CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm”…

·       CSA Directory ( www.ecologycenter.org/directory/results.php?sFAQ=CSA/community%20supported%20agriculture )

·       Delicious.com bookmarked CSA sites ( delicious.com/search?p=csa&u=&chk=&context=all&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0 )

·       Food and Cooperatives in California ( www.gengreenlife.com/cooperatives.php?s=CA )

·       Kaboodle: Organic Produce Deliver in the San Francisco Bay Area ( www.kaboodle.com/thesilentstorm/organic-produce-delivery-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html )

·       TuSavvy CSA Web Pages Discovered by People ( www.tusavvy.com/index.php?mode=search&query=csa  )