The Harvest Times ~ International Newsletter about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Melody Newcombe was Publishing Editor and Founder of 'The Harvest Times' with the help of Amos Newcombe.
'The Harvest Times' newsletter featured articles on both organic and bio-dynamic agriculture, and depicted the many Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) models that were operating and being developed across the globe.
'The Harvest Times' readership consisted of government agricultural bureaus and departments, libraries, schools and universities, farmers, food cooperatives and individual consumers and consumer groups through the world.
Five thousand newsletters were published quarterly to a readership across the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Japan, Thailand, Korea and the Philippines.
The newsletter served as a meeting ground for consumers and farmers. It was also a farmer to farmer forum for the sharing of ideas and information about agricultural and CSA principles, strategies, distribution and marketing. The newsletter served to promote the concepts of CSA's and Community Farming to the public, media and organizations. It had an active and interesting 'Letters to the Editor' section as well as community building strategies, recipes, food harvesting and storage information. There were seasonal suggestions related to food, nutrition, farming, harvesting and community building.
The world wide response to this publication was overwhelming. Letters and phone calls poured in from all over the globe at all hours of every day. It was a testament to the fact that a new model for farmer to consumer communications was not only popular, but welcomed and encouraged. At the start of the first publishing in 1990, there were about 63 CSA's in the United States. By the close of the publication 6 years later, there were well over a thousand CSA's in the U.S. alone and thousands more globally.
Melody had accomplished her goals of encouraging systems for the transfer of freshly harvested organic and bio-dynamic produce directly from local and regional farms to nearby consumers; building community awareness about the principles of growing food with healthful ramifications for the land, the farmers, the consumers and the environment; encouraging better nutrition and consumer interest in the environment and the food they eat; and conserving viable land for farming. It also served to bring local people together to build community and support their local farms and farmers.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/at93-02.shtml
http://207.112.105.217/PEN/1994-05/s-cleary3.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=EQcAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=the+harvest+times+international+newsletter+editor+melody+newcombe+on+community+supported+agriculture&source=bl&ots=X-O7oBbthU&sig=XYwmf2VT_tUR6rc2zQjOj5C6CL8&hl=en&ei=J-17ToaHJ-fh0QHeyuSwAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=the%20harvest%20times%20international%20newsletter%20editor%20melody%20newcombe%20on%20community%20supported%20agriculture&f=false
http://transitionforestrow.org/video/growing-food-locally
'The Harvest Times' newsletter featured articles on both organic and bio-dynamic agriculture, and depicted the many Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) models that were operating and being developed across the globe.
'The Harvest Times' readership consisted of government agricultural bureaus and departments, libraries, schools and universities, farmers, food cooperatives and individual consumers and consumer groups through the world.
Five thousand newsletters were published quarterly to a readership across the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Denmark, France, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Nigeria, Japan, Thailand, Korea and the Philippines.
The newsletter served as a meeting ground for consumers and farmers. It was also a farmer to farmer forum for the sharing of ideas and information about agricultural and CSA principles, strategies, distribution and marketing. The newsletter served to promote the concepts of CSA's and Community Farming to the public, media and organizations. It had an active and interesting 'Letters to the Editor' section as well as community building strategies, recipes, food harvesting and storage information. There were seasonal suggestions related to food, nutrition, farming, harvesting and community building.
The world wide response to this publication was overwhelming. Letters and phone calls poured in from all over the globe at all hours of every day. It was a testament to the fact that a new model for farmer to consumer communications was not only popular, but welcomed and encouraged. At the start of the first publishing in 1990, there were about 63 CSA's in the United States. By the close of the publication 6 years later, there were well over a thousand CSA's in the U.S. alone and thousands more globally.
Melody had accomplished her goals of encouraging systems for the transfer of freshly harvested organic and bio-dynamic produce directly from local and regional farms to nearby consumers; building community awareness about the principles of growing food with healthful ramifications for the land, the farmers, the consumers and the environment; encouraging better nutrition and consumer interest in the environment and the food they eat; and conserving viable land for farming. It also served to bring local people together to build community and support their local farms and farmers.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/at93-02.shtml
http://207.112.105.217/PEN/1994-05/s-cleary3.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=EQcAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=the+harvest+times+international+newsletter+editor+melody+newcombe+on+community+supported+agriculture&source=bl&ots=X-O7oBbthU&sig=XYwmf2VT_tUR6rc2zQjOj5C6CL8&hl=en&ei=J-17ToaHJ-fh0QHeyuSwAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=the%20harvest%20times%20international%20newsletter%20editor%20melody%20newcombe%20on%20community%20supported%20agriculture&f=false
http://transitionforestrow.org/video/growing-food-locally
