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Registrace 21. 02. 2014
Four CSAs In One Day
On the 18th of March 2024, the staff and directors of CSA Network UK visited four CSAs on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea in South Wales. They were four very different CSAs, but they all shared one common feature. They all saw the benefits of running their farms as a CSA because of the advantages the CSA farm business model gave them.
Cae Felin Farm Swansea - SA6 6NX
Blackhills Farm CSA - SA2 7JS
Summit Good CSA - SA2 7US
Big Meadow CSA - SA3 1HT
Video and voiceover by Neil HIckson
Cae Felin Farm Swansea - SA6 6NX
Blackhills Farm CSA - SA2 7JS
Summit Good CSA - SA2 7US
Big Meadow CSA - SA3 1HT
Video and voiceover by Neil HIckson
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Video
Interview with Dr Sally Bell at Hampton Manor.
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CSA Network UK board member Dr Sally Bell explains her own personal journey through medicine and how she believes the CSA movement can bring benefits to the world. Having many different people with a wealth of experience and knowledge as part of your CSA is a good thing. We do the same within CSA Network UK. A diverse board with wide experience is a constant objective. We’ve recently welcomed G...
Bringing Your Land To Life
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Do you want to start up a small farm enterprise? Do you have a piece of land that you want to put to some better use? In June 2023, CSA Network UK and the Ecological Land Cooperative shared a presentation slot at Groundswell 2023. Both organisations have a mission to help small farming businesses get started. In this presentation, Oli Rodker of ELC and Ben Raskin of CSA Network UK explain how t...
Real-life Irrigation Stories with Pete Dollimore, Iain Tolhurst and Dan Larke - Webinar
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Join three experienced growers - Pete Dollimore, Iain Tolhurst, and Dan Larke - in a webinar where they share their personal experiences with irrigation systems. Learn from their stories of systems they have loved, created, and encountered over the years. This session focuses on applying irrigation knowledge in the field. Pete Dollimore is a former Director and Chief Grower at Hankham Organics,...
Introduction To Irrigation For Small Scale Farmers - Pt 02 - Q&A
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Watch this video after Part One, the presentation. In part two of our webinar 'Introduction To Irrigation For Small Scale Farmers', you get to see the question and answer session after the presentation taking place in part one. We recommend you watch part one first which can be seen here: czcams.com/video/nZn2_MSjmxg/video.html Join Pete Dollimore as he talks us through his updated guide to irr...
Introduction To Irrigation For Small Scale Farmers - Pt 01 - The presentation
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Join Pete Dollimore as he talks us through his updated guide to irrigation for small-scale growers. The guide gives an overview of the commonly used installations with details of concepts, terminology, equipment, design and some related aspects to consider. It will also provide tools and techniques to help growers estimate how much and when to water their crops. It will cover rainwater harvesti...
Who's taking Ed's two-day intensive 'Start Up and Scale Up' CSA course
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A whole range of people takes Ed Hamer’s course, from complete beginners right through to people who already run a farm but want to improve their business. Ed of Chagfood is running an intensive training course in just a few weeks, so book your places now. Find out more about Ed's two-day ‘Starting Up and Scaling Up’ course, which runs on the 25th and 26th of February near Brighton. For more de...
Ed Hamer of Chagfood explains why he started a CSA and how his course can help you.
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Find out why Ed Hamer started a CSA and why he thinks his course could help you if you're thinking of starting your own. Ed is running his intensive two-day 'Setting up and Scaling up a CSA' course near Brighton on the 25th and 26th of February, 2023. Find out more on the home page of our website. communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk
Growing and Storing Vegetables in Winter
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Recording made November 2022 This webinar looks at topics such as the challenges of growing at northerly latitudes, infrastructure, timing plantings, selecting crop varieties, maintaining variety in veg boxes and storing vegetables. It's aimed at a Scottish CSA audience but may interest any market gardeners. We are very grateful to The Pebble Trust for supporting this series of webinars. About ...
Diversifying your CSA in Scotland
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CSAs diversify their offering in many ways, varying routes for sales, but how do CSAs choose which are right for them? How do different types of enterprise work within a CSA model? In this webinar, we will hear from four farms that have diversified in various ways and the opportunities and challenges that has presented. We’ll look at questions of capacity, practical requirements, financial impl...
Using Perennials in CSAs and Market Gardens
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About this event Join Mandy Barber of Incredible Vegetables and Ryan Sandford-Blackburn of Earthed Up! to explore the potential of perennials. We will look at the benefits, which species may make sense, perennials for seed crops, integration into an annual layout and use at the edges. You should leave the webinar with an idea of how you could add delicious perennial crops to your design, reduci...
Planning for Uncertainty: Contingency Planning for Small Farms - Workshop
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What do you do when things go wrong? Having a plan to deal with uncertain times is a good thing to have right now. Suzy Russell of CSA Network UK gives us a planning tool for assessing risk. Katy Barker of Growing Communities looks at how to improve resilience by working towards a better fairer food system. Helena Dove of Kew Gardens tells us about climate-resilient crops.
Fair Income for Fair Food - Solidarity payments for CSA Farms
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Fair Income for Fair Food - Solidarity payments for CSA Farms
CSA Governance with Gareth Davies of Canalside and 5 Acres CSAs
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CSA Governance with Gareth Davies of Canalside and 5 Acres CSAs
Composting for small farms - a Masterclass with Nicky Scott
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Composting for small farms - a Masterclass with Nicky Scott
MASTERCLASS: Crop planning and year-round growing
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MASTERCLASS: Crop planning and year-round growing
MASTERCLASS: Measuring the Social Impact of your CSA
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MASTERCLASS: Measuring the Social Impact of your CSA
Local food chains and the challenge of GMOs - June 2021
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Local food chains and the challenge of GMOs - June 2021
P.S. it is the Gower Peninsula but it's just Gower not The Gower i.e. on the Gower Peninsula or on Gower.
Great video and tour of the local CSAs :-)
Thank you for your insights!
Thank you for this informative and very useful webinar!
Thank you for this detailed information! Keep up the great work!
This is a really inspiring video! What a great advert for how wonderful CSA and local food can be.
7 years and few views. Hey World what are your priorities?
splendid
what a wonderful source of information, thank you so much for sharing this!
no mention of companion planting,silver pasture,re generative agriculture?
Nice
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What an awesome and inspiring video. VERY well done. Love every minute of it.
The baby solo is impressive 😁
Question:compostable packing beans,green or brown?
I bought a second hand book by nicky scott that arrived today. I'm reading it now! Green books guide on composting.
Hi, is the crop planning spreadsheet available for download on the website? I can't see it
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Grow organically. It seems nice to work on the farm
Can you please list all the panelists and ideally their websites.
Interesting video. Thanks so much for sharing this. Would be good to have links to the farms, names of growers etc and links to other organisations mentioned in the description.
Agreed.