CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture

23/06/2025

Our two-day in person course and our regional gatherings are open for booking!

🐝 Setting up & Scaling up your CSA is an in-depth weekend course with Ed Hamer of offering real-world insights, step-by-step guidance, a supportive environment to explore ideas and share challenges plus first-hand experience from the host CSA where the course takes place

More info and booking details: https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/setting-up-scaling-up-a-csa/

🐝 Our regional gatherings are an opportunity to gather with others working in Community Supported Agriculture for peer support, workshops, networking and celebration

Book here: https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/regional-csa-gatherings-2025/

🌱 July 19th-20th: Setting up & Scaling up your CSA
🌱 July 20th: Midlands CSA Gathering
🌱 September 13th: Scotland CSA Gathering
🌱 September 27th: Wales CSA Gathering (in collaboration with Social Farms & Gardens - Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol, Landworkers' Alliance and Organic Growers Alliance)

Come join us and please SHARE! 🌞

16/06/2025

Exciting to see a few CSAs featured in this piece on farmers fighting the climate emergency, including Network member farm, Lauriston:

"Sons inherit Scottish farms in 85% of cases, yet over half of UK family farm workers are women. In Edinburgh, Lauriston Farm is run by a majority-women workers’ cooperative, who are drawing on the power of local people to restore a 100-acre urban growing site. When it started in 2021 it was the largest urban farm in Scotland"

From Northern Irish handkerchief-makers to Scilly Isles fisherman who know when to let stocks replenish, a new book showcases radical solutions to our environmental problems

16/06/2025

"We are part of the cycle, part of nature and we need to farm sustainably with nature"

16/06/2025

Researchers are seeking the views of women in farming to help improve the support provided for their health and wellbeing.

They want to know more about the different ways in which a farming way of life might provide both benefits and challenges for women in terms of their physical and mental health; women’s experiences of accessing appropriate healthcare; and how support might be more effectively tailored to improve health and happiness across the sector.

Researchers are seeking the views of women in farming to help improve the support provided for their health and wellbeing. The research is led by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research (CRPR)

09/05/2025

We’ve just launched the first of this year’s CSA Network two-day, in-person training courses designed for growers, organisers, and landworkers who are ready to build rooted, community-powered food systems.

Spaces are limited. Book early to secure your place.
📅 Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th July, 2025
📍 Canalside Community Food, Leamington Spa
🎟 Info & tickets: Learn more and book here: https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/setting-up-scaling-up-a-csa/

Whether you’re just starting out or looking to grow your existing CSA, this course offers the tools, insight and inspiration to take your next steps with confidence.

Led by Ed Hamer of Chagfood CSA, one of the UK’s most established CSA growers with over 13 years’ experience, this training shares the practical knowledge behind building a successful CSA from the ground up. From crop planning and community outreach to enterprise models and long-term resilience, it’s a space to learn what works, ask questions, and connect with others on the same path.

Hosted at a working CSA, the course also offers valuable on-the-ground learning and a chance to see CSA principles in action.

This course is ideal for individuals and groups who care about local food, land justice, and growing in a way that supports both people and planet.

21/04/2025

We're running free online information sessions all about Community Supported Agriculture THIS WEEK for growers and community organisers in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Come ask all your questions to consider whether CSA is right for your farm or agricultural project. We'll help you get started and work out your next steps.

Book at https://communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk/csa-information-sessions-for-the-highlands-and-islands/

📷 Andy Buchanan at

03/04/2025

Meanwood Valley Urban Farm in Leeds is looking for a head grower to manage their small market team. The deadline for applications is this Sunday!

🌱 We are looking for a Head Grower to oversee the running of our 1-acre Market Garden. It’s a hub of sustainable community food growing, feeding 130 households through its’ year-round CSA scheme and hosting 2 volunteer days every week. We are looking for an individual who can hit the ground running and provide leadership and support to the market garden staff and volunteers.

To find out more about the role and access the application forms please head to our website :)

28/03/2025

We want to see farms growing and raising good food for their local communities thrive. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an important model for making that happen, putting farmers and local people directly in touch with each other.

We’ve received funding from The Pebble Trust to grow the CSA movement in the Highlands and Islands in Scotland, and we’re kicking off our support with two information sessions.

If you’re a farmer committed to agroecological practices or a community organiser who wants to create local access to food farmed without harmful chemicals and practices, come along to learn all about CSA!

These FREE online sessions run on Tuesday 22nd April, 6.30pm-8pm and Thursday 24th April, 9.30-11am. Email [email protected] to book your place.

Please share! We want to make sure that as many people as possible get to take advantage of this opportunity 🥦

19/03/2025

18/03/2025

It's Food Waste Action Week! If you're a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm selling vegetables, this is the ideal time to tell your members how they can reduce their food waste when sourcing food through a CSA.

Take the opportunity to give tips on:

🥕 Scrubbing instead of peeling
🥕 How to store veg to get the most out of it
🥕 How to use up the veg box
🥕 Which vegetables to keep the skin on
🥕 Composting instead of binning

What's your farm doing for Food Waste Action Week?

18/03/2025

We're pleased to support Sustainable Kirriemuir through our incubator scheme as they grow their brilliant farm project

14/03/2025

Small farmers need our support more than ever but people eating the food also benefit from buying from them directly.

These are just seven of the reasons to source your food through a Community Supported Agriculture farm (CSA).

Which is your favourite? Can you think of any more? 💚