Hazelhurst CSA
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Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative
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The Transition group in Heeley-Meersbrook has initiated a Community Supported Agriculture project which plans to be called The Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative Limited — the co-operative is still at the planning stages and has yet to be registered.
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Upcoming events
Meeting dates to be announced soon.
Latest news
- Rules and legal proposal
- The Hazelhurst CSA Committee has agreed to propose that the project be legal constituted as the Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative Limited an Industrial and Provident Society bona fide co-operative, using the Somerset CSA model rules.
- Conservation and Biodiversity List
- A new email list has been set up to coordinate work about conservation and biodiversity, please join it if you want to get involved.
- Domain name
- The project now owns hazelhurst.coop and a basic web site has been put up and @hazelhurst.coop email addresses are available, contact chris@hazelhurst.coop if you want one.
- Heeley to Hazelhurst Walk
- Around 40 people had an enjoyable walk from Heeley to Hazelhurst and onto Ford and then a bus back to Heeley after a stop at the pub, some photos from the day have been added to the walk page.
- The 9 acre field
- Has been sold by the farmer to Huw Evans' company on 25th January 2010, Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative will have a 2 year option to buy it from Huw Evans' company.
The project
The plan is for the Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative to buy a 9 acre field in the Moss Valley and to use this to produce a weekly supply of fruit and vegetables for members.
For general discussion about the Hazelhurst Community Supported Agriculture Co-operative people are using the Meersbrook-Heeley-Food list and the Committee is using the Hazelhurst list, both lists have open archives.
More information
- See Hazelhurst CSA Committee for links to notes of the committee meetings.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Sourcing for proposals for a ethical purchasing policy for the co-op.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Software for options for applications the project could use.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Principles and Purpose for some draft proposals for a principles and purpose document for the project.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Affiliations for a list of organisations that the co-op might want to consider affiliating to.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Social Audit for notes on social accounts.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Shares for notes on future share issues.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Rules for information the different rules the Hazelhurst CSA Committee is considering proposing that the project adopt.
- See Hazelhurst CSA Business Plan for notes on developing a business plan for the project.
For background information about the project see Heeley-Meersbrook, Community Supported Agriculture, Moss Valley, Category:Hazelhurst and the Category:CSA pages.
