From csana@bcn.netTue Apr 1 22:15:45 1997 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 18:43:35 -0500 From: csana To: london@sunsite.unc.edu Subject: Re: Community Supported Agriculture Research (fwd) >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:01:45 -0500 (EST) >From: Debra Agnello >Subject: Community Supported Agriculture Research > > > My name is Debra Argentina. I am a senior studying Environmental >Education at Ramapo College of NJ. For the past five years, I have been >coordinating activities at the Alternate Energy Center here on campus. >The center consists of a solar schoolhouse, a greenhouse, an organic >garden, composting area and hen house. The focus of the center is on >environmental education for campus students and younger students from >off-campus. > >I am conducting research for a senior project on Community Supported >Agriculture. Any information you can send to me on the subject would be >greatly appreciated. If you run a CSA, could you possibly e-mail >information on the size, location, years in operation, amount of >subscribers, success, personal philosophy on farming and anything else you >feel is relevant. If you have information that would be easier to send by >regular mail, my address is: > > Debra Argentina > 343 Van Winkle Ave. > Hawthorne, NJ 07506 > or dagnello@ramapo.edu >I will quickly reimburse you for the postage paid by mail. > >Ramapo College is holding its Third Annual Mid-Atlantic >Environmental Conference on Sustainable Communities "What Works?", on April >18-20. Some of our guest speakers will be Jerry Brown, former governor of >CA, presenting the Agenda for a New Millenium; David Korten, author of >When Corporations Rule the World; Don Edwards, Center for Justice and >Sustainability; David Orr, author of Earth in Mind; Bob Swann and Susan >Witt, E.F. Schumacher Society and many more. If anyone is interested in >attending, please call the Environmental Institute office at Ramapo >College >of NJ,201-529-7742 Dear Debra, I am including a couple of things we can offer you. 1) our resource list 2) CSA ideals 3)list of CSA farms in NJ We will have a detailed list of all CSAs in North America by early summer and you could order that in June. Additionally, I will mail you a copy of our bibliograpy. Good luck, Elizabeth Keen CSA of North America 57 Jugend Road Great Barrington, MA 01230 413-528-4374