Cropping planning Tools for Community Agriculture Groups

with the help of the Soil Association resource pages and their tools I am now working my way through the essentials..............

Cropping plan, this is their 'Cropping Tool for Community Agriculture Groups'
Crop planning tool  [Spreadsheet, 154 kb]

Capital costs

Capital costs for setting up a new vegetable CSA [pdf, 156 kb]

Soil Association guide to rotations for organic horticulture field crops [pdf, 566kb]
A comprehensive guide to organic horticultural field crop rotations.


Propogation for CSAs  [pdf, 137 kb]
Suggestions on how to source seedlings and plants to overcome the problems faced when entering commercial scale growing in a CSA.

Marketing..................

CSA
Box schemes
Farmers’ markets
A series of practical guides aimed at farmers looking to diversify your business and marketing your produce

and there are also some example planners.

go to http://www.soilassociation.org/communitysupportedagriculture/resources/agricultureandlivestock 

London Community Supported Agriculture (London CSA) campaigns to create viable market gardens in and around London 

"We are never going to be able to afford local, sustainably raised food without doing it for ourselves"

Having Identified 40 acres of underused or totally disused land in Greenwich alone, with many more potentially available or for shared use in the borough and beyond the scope is simply enormous. We aim to create new community growing enterprises owned and run by their members.
Help and advice needed - to join a team of growers and community developers

https://londoncommunityagriculture/

Our projects on projectdirt.com - /project/9146/

Go to our blog at http://londoncsa.blogspot.co.uk/