Genesee
Valley Organic Community Supported Agriculture (GVOCSA)
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership
of consumers and farmers. The member shareholders provide
a guaranteed market and income, as well as labor, to
produce and distribute the food for a growing season.
The farmers provide weekly shares of fresh, seasonal,
certified organically grown vegetables, fruits, and
herbs.
Genesee Valley Organic Community
Supported Agriculture (GVOCSA) began as a project of
Politics of Food with 26 members in 1989, and has expanded
ten fold. Farmers Elizabeth Henderson, Greg Palmer and
Ammie Chickering grow the food at Peacework Organic
Farm at Crowfield Farm near Newark, New York.
Thanks to a mini-grant* from Hunger
Action Network of New York State (HANNYS), the Rochester
Roots members will participate in Genesee Valley Organic
Community Supported Agriculture’s (GVOCSA) Peacework
Organic Farm. They will fulfill their farm work and
distribution commitment along side other members and
receive 27 weeks of fresh, local, organic produce to
take home to their families.
Peacework Organic Farm will provide the Rochester Roots members with 4’
X 100’ of farmland in Newark, NY in which to grow
the medicinal plants that are used to process their Petal Power and Green Power skin slaves
and lip balm products.
* Funded through “Indirect
vitamins purchasers anti-trust litigation settlement
administered by the Attorney General and Hunger Action
Network of NYS.”
www.gvocsa.org |
