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Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms
Fri 11 Jul 2008 8:20pm
By SUSAN SAULNY, NY Times. "A growing numbers of people are skipping out on grocery stores and instead going right to the source by buying shares of farms — in essence hiring personal farmers, CSA farms."
"[In the USA] there were fewer than 100 C. S. A. farms in the early 1990s, but in the last several years the numbers have grown to close to 1,500, according to academic experts who have followed the trend." — One of those 100 in 1990 was Stearns Organic Farm CSA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/us/10farms.html?th&emc=th
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Stearns Farm CSA Community Supported Agriculture Kathy Huckins, Farm Manager Preserving the historic Stearns farm as a sustainable garden while providing locally and naturally grown food in partnership between the land, the farmer, and the community. |
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