All Things Considered (National Public Radio): Community Sponsored Agriculture

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Title:
All Things Considered (National Public Radio): Community Sponsored Agriculture
Description:
All Things Considered (National Public Radio) program on new approach: Community Sponsored Agriculture in Maryland. (00:01:09) Sharing produce of the land with people at Ehrhardt Organic Farm; Sylvia and Walter Ehrhardt farm founded on banks of Potomac River in 1979; practice intensive farming on five acres, producing fresh produce for about fifty families. Organic farming and protection of crops. (00:06:50) Walter Ehrhardt on decision to leave and take up organic farming as community supported agriculture; sharing cost of agriculture across the community; non-governmental, cooperative owning of the means of production. (00:10:21) Sylvia Ehrhardt distributing fresh fruits and vegetables; advantages of CSA and organic agriculture (customers).
Date:
[1992]
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Audiocassettes
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Northeast Organic Farming Association Records
Series:
Series 7. Audiovisual materials
Subjects:
Community-supported agriculture--Maryland
Organic farming--Maryland
Extent:
1 audio recording ; 00:13:01
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums461-s07-i002
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Knoxville (Md.)
Language:
English
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
mums461-s07-i002