Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
CSAs come in various flavours but essentially they involve a variety of partnerships between farmers and consumers, in which the consumers buy products directly from the farm, and pay for them in...
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Ongoing work is being done on the timelines. There are three, all accessible from the link above. Te Matuku Bay, Big Picture, First Draft. The plan is available to be collaborated on. It can be viewed...
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Food for Everyone
In the last 12 months attention to localising food has increased so dramatically that it gives me faith we can create new systems to provide for the well being of many people while regenerating the...
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A Back of the Napkin look at CSA
After spending a few weeks working on the plan for the Te Matuku Bay property, and an overview of the Waiheke CSA project, I made a presentation to the Waiheke CSA Trust last week. I used a book called...
View Article12 Steps to creating a Waiheke CSA
Transition Towns has a 12 step framework, which I have adapted here to see if could be useful as a guide for how we might bring the Waiheke CSA into fully operational existence, and meeting its vision...
View ArticleWaiheke Buyers Club & CSA
The crowd is building, down at the buyers club, which has only been open for three weeks now. A simple concept... get a group of people together, who know each other, and begin buying (in this case...
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Community Supported Agriculture
Transition Forest Row recently produced an excellent 20 minute film called ‘Growing food locally’ which looked at local food initiatives in the area. It focuses on the impact of rising oil prices on...
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