Thank you for taking part in our survey of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and similar enterprises.
We take CSA to mean "any food, fuel or fibre producing initiative where the community shares the risks and rewards of production, whether through ownership, investment, sharing the costs of production, or provision of labour".
You are helping us to better understand CSAs, their local communities, and their economic, social and environmental impact. We hope our findings will encourage the development of more such enterprises, provide insights into the needs of communities, and inform government policy and support programmes.
The survey should not take longer than 20 minutes to complete. The survey is voluntary and all questions are optional, but the more people who respond, the better the information will be.
Your responses and information
This survey is being conducted by Provenance as part of its evaluation of the impact of CSA for the Soil Association's CSA support work under the Making Local Food Work programme.
None of the questions are compulsory, so please skip any that you would prefer not to answer or that are not applicable to you. But the more you can tell us, the more it will help us understand CSAs. Any personal information will be kept absolutely confidential and you will not be individually identified in any of our reporting.
Data collected will be shared by the Soil Association and Provenance, but only used for the purposes of this evaluation and related work. We will share all published results of this and follow-up research with you, including a tailored analysis of your local community.
If you have any queries, comments or complaints please contact Nick Saltmarsh at nick@provenance.co
Thank you, Bonnie Hewson, Soil Association; Nick Saltmarsh and Josiah Meldrum, Provenance