CSA CONFERENCE CLOUGHJORDAN 17-19TH FEB

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CSA CONFERENCE CLOUGHJORDAN 17-19TH FEB

Interested in a different way of sharing the rewards and risks of farming? Growing Together: An All-Ireland Conference on Community Supported Agriculture will give you just such an opportunity.

To book a place email training@cloughjordancommunityfarm.ie

The event will be held on the evening of the 17th, and full days of the 18th and 19th of February in St. Kieran’s Hall, Cloughjordan, Tipperary.

CSA's are very popular globally, with hundreds in France and Italy, and in the US, about 4000 now in operation. They involve some element of 'pro-suming': the producer and consumer coming together to form a more significant relationship in and around food.

This event is hosted by Cloughjordan Community Farm in association a very interesting range of contributors and supporters. These include the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS), the Urgenci Global Network of CSA’s,IOFGA and the Soil Association. Environmental NGOs Sustainable Projects Ireland, Cultivate and FEASTA are also involved.

The aim of this event is to introduce the CSA concept to communities and growers on the island of Ireland and bring together emerging Irish CSA’s with experienced initiatives from across Europe.

Weekend tickets cost €40, while tickets for individual days and specific sessions will be available. Accommodation is available in the town, including in Djangos hostel in the ecovillage. (087 2569348 www.djangoshostel.com)

Producer and consumers alike should find something in key themes to be covered over the course of the weekend. These include: Producing food together – Sharing the Risk; Where CSA already works: Global Perspectives; Can CSA increase community resilience?; Diversification for farmers and growers; Access to Land; How to do it: learning opportunities; food sovereignty.

Both the Skerries and Cloughjordan community farms will present on their different models for CSAs. Paddy Byrnes' Dublin model emerged from a group of consumers approaching the farmer himself. It runs from late Spring to early Winter. The Cloughjordan model is member owned and operated, with co-ordinators producing the food under contract. Tours of the Cloughjordan CSA will be conducted throughout the weekend.

The Soil Association have just completed a 10 year CSA programme, where they helped significantly increase the numbers of CSAs in the UK.

Peter Young (Irish Farmers' Journal) and NOTS (National Organic training Skillsnet) will host a dedicated session for farmers and growers interested in learning exactly how to get establish, or initiate a CSA. How to add CSA as a diversification strategy will also be covered: some CSAs, such as a new one in Wicklow, are for one crop only, with the producer carrying on his or her normal business with the rest of the farm.

Models related to, though not directly CSAs, will also be presented. These include school gardening, allotments, community gardens, GIY (grow it yourself) care farming, co-ops, buyers groups and more traditional direct selling initiatives (such as farmers markets and box schemes).

Unusually, this will be a very interactive event, with short presentations and the use of an open space cafe format on the Sunday. This approach is participant rather than speaker-led.

Key themes, considerations and concerns from the preceding parts of the event, or topics not covered but considered important, are thrashed out by participants in around numerous tables, with five or so at each table. With provided markers, notes are taken on large sheets on each table. Then, one person stays at the table and four move on, and the note taking continues. The information on the sheets is then taken and analysed by the overall group. Sometimes, specific coloured stickers are applied to set topics, and very clear patterns of importance emerge.

This approach was initiated in the 1980s, originally pioneered by Harrison Owen and other experts in organisation. They noticed that the best conversations at conferences were usually rushed ones during coffee breaks.

The net effect of this approach is that the collective wisdom of the entire room, rather than just the podium, is used, shared and developed.

All told, lots to learn and do in Cloughjordan from the 17-19th February.

For more and to book a place email training@cloughjordancommunityfarm.ie see here or @Cloughjo_Farm (Twitter) or Davie on 087 6340697

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