On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 14:20:48 -0500 Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Leigh- A lot of my concerns fall back to my belief in the inspired
validity of 3-Fold Economics. I believe that farming has no place in
the economic realm and has suffered tremendously because of efforts
Title: FW: CSA's
Hi Allan et al,
I forwarded your post about csas referencing Robyns website to JP because he had just given me a little synopsis of how csas actually started. He should know, since he was one of the first few csas to start in the northeast. He was trained as a biodynamic
Hey Allan,
It's an interesting discussion about the history of CSA but we need
to constantly remember that CSA is an evolving concept. (in fact, if
I had my druthers I would completely do away with the term CSA
because it is so unintuitive and because of so much of the baggage it
carries
I do like the one aspect of the 'old time' CSA theory in that the
subscribers share in the success and failure of the program. This
means, no outside sales. What you grow goes to your subscribers.
This works to make the subscribers feel more part of the farm, and
it does work to educate the
from Jean paul courtens
Hi Jane and Allan:
I think it is also important for the subscribers at BD Now to know
that Jan vanderTuin (whom I had forgotten to mention), had brought
the idea with him from Dornach, Switzerland. There Jan had either
worked, or just met with a farmer that had a
From: Jean Paul Courtens
I missed this one and I should have read this one-first before I
responded. It think it is important to understand that farming is
all three; Free spiritual life is represented by the wisdom of the
farmer.
The right sphere in the issues of who owns what right to what.
Another group's discussion turned to CSA last couple of days. Now
I'm intrigued, I know biodynamic farming was where the concept
probably began so I was wondering how many list members either
operate a CSA or belong to one?
Martha - I've operated CSA's for the past 4 years and plan to again
