Community Shared Agriculture: The Haliburton Highland CSA

Community Shared Agriculture: The Haliburton Highland CSA

Christians, Julian

Wadland, John; Whillans, Tom
Departments: Canadian Studies and Environmental Studies

TPB-551

1995

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Food security and Community Shared Agriculture

Central to the bioregionalism movement is the need to increase the self-sufficiency of communities in the area of food security. Haliburton, although designated rural, has very little agriculturally viable land and this necessitates looking for alternatives to conventional agricultural activities.

This paper looks at the work of the Highland Harvest Community Shared Agricultural system. The health and economic issues encountered in Haliburton are discussed based on a report from the Haliburton, Kawartha and Pine Ridge District Health Council and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. This leads to a look at the issue of food security in Haliburton. The concept of Community Shared Agriculture is introduced, followed by details of how the Highland Harvest CSA operates. Suggestions for future research topics conclude the paper.

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