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CSAs and Social Justice



Anyone have a response for this fellow?  Send it to me and I will forward
it to the other listserve...
Thanks!

Jeanne

>Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 16:33:29 -0400
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>From: HFS <hfoods@erols.com>
>To: NE community food systems <nefood-l@sardonyx.tufts.edu>
>Subject: CSAs and Social Justice
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>Our organizations has developed a community supported agriculture (CSA) 
>farm that produces half of its food for and with low income 
>organizations from Hartford and half of its food for middle and upper 
>income households from suburban towns.  I am looking for information 
>about CSAs that have developed a process to include lower income 
>households (nonvoluntary poor) as members.  Specifically, I would like 
>to know:
>	* By what means has this been accomplished, e.g. reduced price 
>shares, "work shares", soliciting donations to pay for or subsidize 
>shares
>	* Approximately what percentage of the CSAs membership receive 
>some form of assistance or otherwise benefit from the CSA.  In other 
>words, how big or small a part of the CSA's orientation are social 
>justice concerns.
>	* What other ways has the CSA assisted low income communities. 
>e.g. donating food regularly to food banks
>
>I'm interested in both successes and failures.  I would also appreciate 
>any other comments that shed light on how closely the CSA movement is 
>linked to social justice concerns.  These comments could address both 
>practical as well as philosophical issues.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Mark Winne
>Hartford Food System
>509 Wethersfield Ave.
>Hartford, CT 06114
>860 296 9325
>
Jeanne A. Nye
VABF Project Coordinator
BuyGreen Virginia Partnership
1715 Blair Street
Christiansburg VA  24073
540 633-6633 w & fax
540 633-0089 h
Buygreen@buygreen.org
<http://www.vvac.org/bgvp/>