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Re: New CSA National Directory (fwd)





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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>.