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Community Supported Agriculture conference- Bristol

Commmunity Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is the name of the game here at Cambridge Cropshare. There’s many different forms of CSA, but our project works by bringing volunteers of all veggie-growing abilities onto an existing local farm to help with everyday farm tasks. Our volunteers are rewarded with a share of the crop we produce together at harvest. There was plenty of information on existing CSAs in the UK and beyond  Two Cropshare members were able...
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Harvest Party!

Finally the time has come to harvest our carefully grown onion crop. When we arrived at the farm, we could see all the onions we laid out on the soil two weeks ago were dried out, excellent!  Then it was up to us to remove most of the dead leaves and bag the onions into dayglow orange nets.  We even had time for a few juggling tricks- thanks for the entertainment Isabel!  Our marvelous harvest was...
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