CSA get together and open day at Dragon Orchard CSA
22 March 2012 12:00 - 22 March 2012 17:00
Meet At Putley Village Hall, Herefordshire.
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The day is an opportunity to meet and share ideas with other CSAs and to learn about the established CSA at Dragon Orchard.
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Who should come?
The day is open to anyone with an interest in CSAs, especially trading and developing CSA projects.
Amongst us will be a group of 5 people learning about CSA from Slovakia, Greece, Czech Republic and Hungary in order to introduce the idea of CSA to their countries.
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Programme
We will meet for tea and introductions at 12.00 at Putley Village Hall. You will be asked to speak for a few minutes about your project, or proposed project.
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Lunch will be provided.
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The Soil Association will speak about CSA and there will be a problem solving and discussion session. We will discuss whether and how you would like to stay in touch in the future.
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Ann and Norman Stanier will talk about their apple CSA, which is successful and well established. It is a privately owned farmer led CSA with subscribing members who contribute £360 per year and receive apple produce and visits to the orchard. For more information see
http://www.soilassociation.org/communitysupportedagriculture/casestudies and www.
dragonorchard.co.uk
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There will be a farm tour, whatever the weather, so please come suitably dressed.
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We will finish by 5pm
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Booking
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