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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We've been reporting on losses for farmers as restaurants and hotels and schools closed, disrupting supply chains. But there's one farm sector that's flourishing - farms that deliver weekly boxes of fresh produce to your door or to a pickup site. NPR's Eric Westervelt has been looking into that. ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: With demand and prices for some agricultural products down, some farmers have had to dump milk, plow under crops and toss perishables. Judith Redmond, a farmer in California's Capay Valley north of Sacramento, says a local journalist rang, asking to see the carnage. JUDITH REDMOND: We had a reporter call here and say we want to see some produce rotting in the field and milk going down the drains. And I said, well, actually, that's not what's happening in the Capay Valley (laughter). WESTERVELT: In fact, the opposite is happening on Redmond's 400-acre organic farm called Full Belly. They're working hard to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. The restaurant and farmers market sides of Full Belly's business have cratered. But their community supported agriculture, or CSA side, where members pay for weekly year-round boxes of fresh veggies, fruit and more, has jumped to 2,000 boxes a week. REDMOND: We have doubled our CSA box numbers and quadrupled our add-ons like wheat flour, oils - like olive oil - nuts, even yarn. WESTERVELT: CSAs have long been a kind of niche market, a support local and organic movement that has struggled to ex...

To add a new CSA, modify your current listing, or delete a listing, fill out the form at this link. If you have questions or problems with the form, For a list of food hubs serving Iowa, visit our Click on the region tabs below the map to find CSA farms in each region, listed alphabetically by county. Be sure to contact your local farmers to find out what they may be doing differently due to the pandemic. Buena Vista County Cultivate Training Garden/The Bridge of Storm Lake Jay Dahlhauser 529 Seneca St., Storm Lake, IA 50588 (712) 213-0195 Markets to Storm Lake. Vegetables & fresh roasted coffee. Chemical-free unless otherwise noted. Clay County GoodEetens Produce Farm Darla and Michael Eeten 2773 Jefferson Ave, Boyden, Iowa 51234 (712) 348-1877 Markets to Everly, Arnold’s Park, Sheldon, Boyden and Spencer. Vegetables, berries, herbs, homemade bread, syrup, honey and fresh flowers. Our CSA has evolved to be “order what you love, pay as you go.” Online ordering available. Dickinson County Guritz Produce Farm Mark Guritz 2920 160th St., Spirit Lake, IA 51360 (712) 336-1650 Markets to Spirit Lake & surrounding region. Vegetables, fruit, herbs, and meat. Ida County Thankful Harvest Tom & Kristi German 5139 210th St., Holstein, IA 51025 (712) 830-3281 Markets to Holstein, Sioux City, Omaha, central Iowa. Offers home delivery. USDA certified organic eggs, beef, chicken, lamb. Sac County Raccoon Ridge Farm Adam Nockels 3615 Elkland Avenue, Auburn, IA 51433 (515) 229-5883 Markets ...

The following table lists the 172 combined statistical areas (CSAs) of the United States with the following information: • The CSA rank by population as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the • The CSA name as designated by the • The CSA population as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau • The CSA population as of April 1, 2020, as enumerated by the • The percent CSA population change from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021 • The ( The 172 combined statistical areas of the United States of America Rank Combinedstatisticalarea 2022 estimate 2020 census Change Constituent core-based statisticalareas 1 23,143,097 23,582,649 −1.86% 2 18,372,485 18,644,680 −1.46% 3 9,968,104 9,973,383 −0.05% 4 9,806,184 9,986,960 −1.81% 5 9,482,708 9,714,023 −2.38% 6 8,449,932 8,121,108 +4.05% 7 8,413,327 8,466,186 −0.62% 8 7,533,096 7,312,270 +3.02% 9 7,381,187 7,379,700 +0.02% 10 7,088,898 6,930,423 +2.29% 11 6,841,100 6,868,652 −0.40% 12 5,424,742 5,393,033 +0.59% 13 4,999,734 4,899,104 +2.05% 14 4,953,985 4,953,421 +0.01% 15 4,291,852 4,222,422 +1.64% 16 4,080,232 4,078,788 +0.04% 17 3,642,145 3,623,560 +0.51% 18 3,615,968 3,633,962 −0.50% 19 3,285,275 3,280,736 +0.14% 20 2,914,230 2,924,904 −0.36% 21 2,864,830 2,822,352 +1.51% 22 2,746,164 2,701,129 +1.67% 23 2,697,399 2,680,831 +0.62% 24 2,637,506 2,657,149 −0.74% 25 2,620,224 2,576,528 +1.70% 26 2,555,732 2,544,048 +0.46% 27 2,535,652 2,528,644 +0.28% 28 2,507,944 2,492,514 +0.62% 29 2,345,926 2,317,052 +1.25% 30 2,...

Summary The pandemic has revealed deep flaws in our industrial food supply chain, leading many people to take an expanded interest in local farms. One of the most popular and fastest-growing models of farm-community commerce is the Community Supported Agriculture program, or CSA. In this article, you’ll find all about what CSAs are, their benefits and flaws, and how you might want to use this innovative model in your life. one of the main tools that can help you eat well in unstable times is the humble CSA. CSA stands for “community-supported agriculture.” It’s a model of farming, distribution, and marketing that Since then, many farms and communities have tailored the model to their own needs. CSAs can operate on very different scales, with some serving just a dozen families and others providing food for more than a thousand households. In France alone in 2016, an estimated 400,000 people in 2015, there were CSAs and Produce Boxes During the Coronavirus Pandemic iStock.com/YK TANG Community-supported agriculture has First, a CSA eliminates the most vulnerable parts of the supply chain: processing, interstate shipping, storage, distribution, and retail in a confined space. No local farmer is destroying their crops when their customers can meet them in the farm parking area or at a road-side stand or open-air market. Selling direct to consumers means farms don’t have to rely on packaging, refrigeration, and processing facilities that may have closed due to lockdowns. And si...

To add a new CSA, modify your current listing, or delete a listing, fill out the form at this link. If you have questions or problems with the form, For a list of food hubs serving Iowa, visit our Click on the region tabs below the map to find CSA farms in each region, listed alphabetically by county. Be sure to contact your local farmers to find out what they may be doing differently due to the pandemic. Buena Vista County Cultivate Training Garden/The Bridge of Storm Lake Jay Dahlhauser 529 Seneca St., Storm Lake, IA 50588 (712) 213-0195 Markets to Storm Lake. Vegetables & fresh roasted coffee. Chemical-free unless otherwise noted. Clay County GoodEetens Produce Farm Darla and Michael Eeten 2773 Jefferson Ave, Boyden, Iowa 51234 (712) 348-1877 Markets to Everly, Arnold’s Park, Sheldon, Boyden and Spencer. Vegetables, berries, herbs, homemade bread, syrup, honey and fresh flowers. Our CSA has evolved to be “order what you love, pay as you go.” Online ordering available. Dickinson County Guritz Produce Farm Mark Guritz 2920 160th St., Spirit Lake, IA 51360 (712) 336-1650 Markets to Spirit Lake & surrounding region. Vegetables, fruit, herbs, and meat. Ida County Thankful Harvest Tom & Kristi German 5139 210th St., Holstein, IA 51025 (712) 830-3281 Markets to Holstein, Sioux City, Omaha, central Iowa. Offers home delivery. USDA certified organic eggs, beef, chicken, lamb. Sac County Raccoon Ridge Farm Adam Nockels 3615 Elkland Avenue, Auburn, IA 51433 (515) 229-5883 Markets ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We've been reporting on losses for farmers as restaurants and hotels and schools closed, disrupting supply chains. But there's one farm sector that's flourishing - farms that deliver weekly boxes of fresh produce to your door or to a pickup site. NPR's Eric Westervelt has been looking into that. ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: With demand and prices for some agricultural products down, some farmers have had to dump milk, plow under crops and toss perishables. Judith Redmond, a farmer in California's Capay Valley north of Sacramento, says a local journalist rang, asking to see the carnage. JUDITH REDMOND: We had a reporter call here and say we want to see some produce rotting in the field and milk going down the drains. And I said, well, actually, that's not what's happening in the Capay Valley (laughter). WESTERVELT: In fact, the opposite is happening on Redmond's 400-acre organic farm called Full Belly. They're working hard to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. The restaurant and farmers market sides of Full Belly's business have cratered. But their community supported agriculture, or CSA side, where members pay for weekly year-round boxes of fresh veggies, fruit and more, has jumped to 2,000 boxes a week. REDMOND: We have doubled our CSA box numbers and quadrupled our add-ons like wheat flour, oils - like olive oil - nuts, even yarn. WESTERVELT: CSAs have long been a kind of niche market, a support local and organic movement that has struggled to ex...

The following table lists the 172 combined statistical areas (CSAs) of the United States with the following information: • The CSA rank by population as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the • The CSA name as designated by the • The CSA population as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau • The CSA population as of April 1, 2020, as enumerated by the • The percent CSA population change from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021 • The ( The 172 combined statistical areas of the United States of America Rank Combinedstatisticalarea 2022 estimate 2020 census Change Constituent core-based statisticalareas 1 23,143,097 23,582,649 −1.86% 2 18,372,485 18,644,680 −1.46% 3 9,968,104 9,973,383 −0.05% 4 9,806,184 9,986,960 −1.81% 5 9,482,708 9,714,023 −2.38% 6 8,449,932 8,121,108 +4.05% 7 8,413,327 8,466,186 −0.62% 8 7,533,096 7,312,270 +3.02% 9 7,381,187 7,379,700 +0.02% 10 7,088,898 6,930,423 +2.29% 11 6,841,100 6,868,652 −0.40% 12 5,424,742 5,393,033 +0.59% 13 4,999,734 4,899,104 +2.05% 14 4,953,985 4,953,421 +0.01% 15 4,291,852 4,222,422 +1.64% 16 4,080,232 4,078,788 +0.04% 17 3,642,145 3,623,560 +0.51% 18 3,615,968 3,633,962 −0.50% 19 3,285,275 3,280,736 +0.14% 20 2,914,230 2,924,904 −0.36% 21 2,864,830 2,822,352 +1.51% 22 2,746,164 2,701,129 +1.67% 23 2,697,399 2,680,831 +0.62% 24 2,637,506 2,657,149 −0.74% 25 2,620,224 2,576,528 +1.70% 26 2,555,732 2,544,048 +0.46% 27 2,535,652 2,528,644 +0.28% 28 2,507,944 2,492,514 +0.62% 29 2,345,926 2,317,052 +1.25% 30 2,...

Summary The pandemic has revealed deep flaws in our industrial food supply chain, leading many people to take an expanded interest in local farms. One of the most popular and fastest-growing models of farm-community commerce is the Community Supported Agriculture program, or CSA. In this article, you’ll find all about what CSAs are, their benefits and flaws, and how you might want to use this innovative model in your life. one of the main tools that can help you eat well in unstable times is the humble CSA. CSA stands for “community-supported agriculture.” It’s a model of farming, distribution, and marketing that Since then, many farms and communities have tailored the model to their own needs. CSAs can operate on very different scales, with some serving just a dozen families and others providing food for more than a thousand households. In France alone in 2016, an estimated 400,000 people in 2015, there were CSAs and Produce Boxes During the Coronavirus Pandemic iStock.com/YK TANG Community-supported agriculture has First, a CSA eliminates the most vulnerable parts of the supply chain: processing, interstate shipping, storage, distribution, and retail in a confined space. No local farmer is destroying their crops when their customers can meet them in the farm parking area or at a road-side stand or open-air market. Selling direct to consumers means farms don’t have to rely on packaging, refrigeration, and processing facilities that may have closed due to lockdowns. And si...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We've been reporting on losses for farmers as restaurants and hotels and schools closed, disrupting supply chains. But there's one farm sector that's flourishing - farms that deliver weekly boxes of fresh produce to your door or to a pickup site. NPR's Eric Westervelt has been looking into that. ERIC WESTERVELT, BYLINE: With demand and prices for some agricultural products down, some farmers have had to dump milk, plow under crops and toss perishables. Judith Redmond, a farmer in California's Capay Valley north of Sacramento, says a local journalist rang, asking to see the carnage. JUDITH REDMOND: We had a reporter call here and say we want to see some produce rotting in the field and milk going down the drains. And I said, well, actually, that's not what's happening in the Capay Valley (laughter). WESTERVELT: In fact, the opposite is happening on Redmond's 400-acre organic farm called Full Belly. They're working hard to ramp up production to meet soaring demand. The restaurant and farmers market sides of Full Belly's business have cratered. But their community supported agriculture, or CSA side, where members pay for weekly year-round boxes of fresh veggies, fruit and more, has jumped to 2,000 boxes a week. REDMOND: We have doubled our CSA box numbers and quadrupled our add-ons like wheat flour, oils - like olive oil - nuts, even yarn. WESTERVELT: CSAs have long been a kind of niche market, a support local and organic movement that has struggled to ex...

To add a new CSA, modify your current listing, or delete a listing, fill out the form at this link. If you have questions or problems with the form, For a list of food hubs serving Iowa, visit our Click on the region tabs below the map to find CSA farms in each region, listed alphabetically by county. Be sure to contact your local farmers to find out what they may be doing differently due to the pandemic. Buena Vista County Cultivate Training Garden/The Bridge of Storm Lake Jay Dahlhauser 529 Seneca St., Storm Lake, IA 50588 (712) 213-0195 Markets to Storm Lake. Vegetables & fresh roasted coffee. Chemical-free unless otherwise noted. Clay County GoodEetens Produce Farm Darla and Michael Eeten 2773 Jefferson Ave, Boyden, Iowa 51234 (712) 348-1877 Markets to Everly, Arnold’s Park, Sheldon, Boyden and Spencer. Vegetables, berries, herbs, homemade bread, syrup, honey and fresh flowers. Our CSA has evolved to be “order what you love, pay as you go.” Online ordering available. Dickinson County Guritz Produce Farm Mark Guritz 2920 160th St., Spirit Lake, IA 51360 (712) 336-1650 Markets to Spirit Lake & surrounding region. Vegetables, fruit, herbs, and meat. Ida County Thankful Harvest Tom & Kristi German 5139 210th St., Holstein, IA 51025 (712) 830-3281 Markets to Holstein, Sioux City, Omaha, central Iowa. Offers home delivery. USDA certified organic eggs, beef, chicken, lamb. Sac County Raccoon Ridge Farm Adam Nockels 3615 Elkland Avenue, Auburn, IA 51433 (515) 229-5883 Markets ...