Jared Spears
Jared Spears is the Director of Communications and Resources at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, and is the marketing director of the BerkShares local currency program. He has written for It’s Freezing in LA!, Public Seminar, Futures of Work, The World Transformed and Yes! magazine, among others.
The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture
Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of those rare ideas which combine transformative potential with an elegant simplicity. The CSA model of funding and sustaining locally-rooted agriculture has grown exponentially around the globe over the past four decades. Since the first formal CSA at Robyn Van En’s Indian Line Farm in South Egremont, Massachusetts in the…
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