Enright Ridge CSA Encourages Others with New Book: "Starting Your Own Urban CSA"

The Enright Ridge CSA is a co-operative community-supported agriculture project. Volunteers came together to make the project a reality; they hired an experienced farmer who provided guidance as they learned about high-production farming, successive plantings, and high-volume production techniques. It was a partial fulfillment of Jim Schenk's dream; he's wanted to have a CSA in Price Hill for nearly three decades.

By its second year, the CSA was providing produce for more than 100 people for six months of the year on less than an acre of land. By the end of that second year, it was time to think about the second part of Jim Schenk's dream--a CSA in every neighborhood. Some of the CSA's members decided to share what they had learned about urban co-op farming, with the belief that other neighborhoods can learn from the Enright CSA experience—both from successes and missteps. 

A lot of people worked together to get a grant, create an outline, research the subject, take photos, and generally do what needed to be done to put a book together. It's taken a couple of years, and we got it posted online last autumn (you can find it here).

But now it's a real, hands-on, analog book, too, and with the grant, we were able to keep the price low. There will be copies available from Enright CSA, and it's even on Amazon now--click here or just search for Starting Your Urban CSA. With this book, author Jim Schenk’s dream may well become a reality, as he inspires every neighborhood across the country and around the world to support flourishing urban farms. It’s time to learn how to feed ourselves again, and the information in this book encourages everyone, everywhere to give it a try.