Subject: Re: CSAs in New Jersey?

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 10:33:17 -0400

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:21:51 EDT, "Dori Green"
<[email-masked]> wrote:

>The promised newspaper article came out, but the writer's 
>agenda was to talk about how expensive organic food is.  I think she was 
>bought off by Cleveland Amory.

Wouldn't that be Dennis Avery, famous for his promotion of hard-core
organic agriculture and, preservation of small & family farms and
local food production and marketing systems.

Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm ICQ#27930345
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From: "Dori Green" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:21:51 EDT

Hi, everybody!

My CSA here never did get off the ground this year -- one paid member does 
not begin to cover the costs of putting in a market garden or hiring help to 
maintain it.  The promised newspaper article came out, but the writer's 
agenda was to talk about how expensive organic food is.  I think she was 
bought off by Cleveland Amory.  Huge spread about me as an organic guru, not 
one word about all the work I've done here for ten years to make the farm 
accessible to people and keep their costs down.  I've had a dozen calls 
demanding free gardening advice, not one membership.  Ugh.

A one-month apprentice is arriving next weekend.  She can help me get 
perennials started for next year and she will learn _lots_ of non-chemical 
strategies for the weed battle.

I had a good job interview in New Jersey last week and will hear the results 
today or tomorrow.  If they offer me the job, I'm outta here in two weeks!  
My intentional community idea is moving right along and there will be 
members living here.  It'll be up to them whether or not they keep trying to 
activate a CSA in this region; they haven't thought much about it so far.  
The job is temporary for six months; if it goes to permanent after that, 
I'll probably sell this farm and look in New York or New Jersey for partners 
to share another one -- have already located a possibility near Scranton 
(PA).

Never did get any local interest in classes or workshops, so I put out some 
feelers and now I'm getting $250 for putting on a two-hour goat walk and 
collection of mini-demonstrations/workshops for tourists by the bus load.  
Two buses are coming from the Philadelphia area next week.

I know that New Jersey has an active NOFA chapter, but I haven't seen even 
one CSA in the national list.  I know that land prices are truly terrifying, 
but still...

Does anybody know of an active CSA anywhere in New Jersey, or will I have to 
go to a New York City greenmarket for my weekly veggies????  I thought I saw 
something about a CSA near the Delaware Water Gap area.  Are those folks on 
this list?

Who's going to the NOFA conference in Amherst, MA Aug 11-13?  I'm looking to 
carpool from Corning, Ithaca, or Binghamton and I promise I won't even 
practice my own presentation (about my SARE agroforestry project) on 
car-mates unless they ask me to.

Even if we don't ride together, do look for me in the dining hall.  I'm the 
woman with the walking stick and a big table sign announcing "INTENTIONAL 
COMMUNITIES & CSAS".

Dori Green
Ash Grove Community Farm & Center for Sustainable Living
Corning, NY

http://www.ic.org/agrove (new streamlined website)

ps -- just in case anybody wonders -- yes I need the stick.  Not everybody 
gets run down by a truck and lives to tell the tale, so I do not complain 
about the nuisance residuals from that circumstance.  A cane says 
"disabled", a walking stick says "adventurer" and "maybe dangerous".  I'm 
actually only dangerous to people who are threatened by new ideas.

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