1908, the British government passed legislation to protect people's right to grow and produce their own food, which is specially designed for those residents who live in densely populated areas without their own backyard. Cultivated land is provided by the government to eligible residents for cultivation. The allocated land shall not be changed easily.

In the 1970s, the popularity of the TV program The good life aroused the British people's desire for land, and many people began to seek rural pleasure again, which has continued to this day. At present, there are about 297,000 pieces of arable land in Britain, which are leased to tenants by the local government, and tenants pay 8 to 80 pounds to the government every year.

Because there is not enough porridge, it is not easy to become a member of the citizen farm. You have to register with the local government in the application procedure and wait for the notice in February. If there were no vacancies then, we'd have to wait. In Edinburgh, for example, it takes an average of four years to get a vacancy.

The members of modern citizen farms are a collection of various elements, regardless of social class. After entering the farm, no one will deliberately show off who they are. Take Lenduff Yard in Wales as an example. Don't underestimate Hillary, she often kneels on the ground and pulls weeds. She will enthusiastically explain potato diseases and insect pests when she meets people. She looks like a standard peasant woman. She is a professor at the Royal Academy of Drama in Wales, and her major is Shakespeare. David, a strong man who is busy greeting everyone, is a famous human rights lawyer. As for Billy, an 80-year-old man who keeps bees in his own farmland, he was a defeated soldier who was taken in by Britain in World War II. Milo, the owner of the Japanese courtyard not far away, is a writer who writes Japanese children's books. No matter where they come from or what their status is, they all love life and like to create with their own hands. The concept of community supported agriculture originated in Switzerland and developed in Japan.

1965 in Japan, a group of housewives began to care about the pollution of food by pesticides. More and more food is processed and imported, and correspondingly, there are fewer and fewer local agricultural products. So, they reached a supply and demand agreement with the producers of organic food. This is the so-called Teikei system, which means having knowledge or working together. This concept was later spread to North America and Europe, and gradually developed into CSA.

Community supported agriculture's concept is not to use middlemen to manipulate the local grain economy. It can restore the friendly relationship between farmers and consumers. The important principle of CSA is that people will produce healthy food in an ecologically safe agricultural system at the end of the year. Consumers are also "shareholders" and farmers will make plans and budgets for production. All the costs will be allocated to each "shareholder" (consumer), and each shareholder can invest in cash or labor. No matter how many products there are, they will be distributed to every shareholder. We should also bear the risks of productive farming, such as possible natural disasters.

The idea behind CSA is to establish a local food economic system and create an environment where farmers and consumers work together to achieve food security and social and natural economic and environmental sustainability. CSA has no specific model, which varies according to the factors and conditions not used by each community. CSA was introduced to Thailand by a group of young people, who hoped to develop CSA in rural areas and hoped that this system could solve the problems of food shortage and unfair trade manipulated by middlemen. In 200 1 year, they established the "Sunshine Garden" in the suburb of Bangkok (Group A: Suandong Tawan) and also started a CSA project. This project is supported by the Japan Volunteer Center (JVC). There are no more than 20 CSA shareholders in Sunshine Garden, most of whom are good friends of Mr. Dissatat, the farm manager. Up to now, CSA has not been widely promoted in Thailand, mainly for the following reasons:

A) Consumers usually don't understand sustainable agriculture and organic agriculture.

B) Thai consumers don't form their own groups-Thais don't like teamwork very much.

C) Although some consumers care about organic healthy food, they live too far away and too scattered, so it is difficult for CSA to operate in distribution based on cost performance.

D) Most urban residents (adopting modern lifestyle) prefer packaged food and buy processed food rather than cooking at home.

However, the significance of CSA is far greater than the results it produces. It brings farmers and consumers together, and they can exchange views and jointly conceive different solutions to make the environment, local food economy and community sustainable. Of course, consumers will also get healthy and clean food, which makes everything around them healthy. It was not until 1986 that the United States began to rise. Currently, there are thousands of small farms.

Ross is a doctor and a farmer. Influenced by her father's farming, although she got her doctorate, she still hasn't forgotten the mu of land she dreamed of. She came to Florida, found an uncultivated meadow and started her organic farm. Fortunately, she started from undeveloped grassland, which is easier to cultivate than fields sprayed with pesticides. She thinks that since she is a small farm and lives on the edge of the farm, if she uses pesticides again, it will harm others and herself; In addition, there are not many organic farms in Florida, which is just a new market and contributes to environmental protection. All kinds of good reasons add up and this organic farm was born.

At that time, a couple named Ruth was looking for farmers willing to join the CSA organization. I found several farmers, and they all shook their heads and refused, but they hit it off with the farmers. At first, they started with educating consumers, widely publicized the concept of CSA through flower auctions in botanical gardens, local newspapers and all walks of life, and kept in touch with local environmental protection groups. After a year, I finally recruited 30 members, and then I went to find farmers who were willing to supply vegetables to join the CSA organization. Ruth stressed the need to find a very independent farmer, and Ross Farmer was the most suitable candidate.

Emphasize the importance of risk sharing in the concept of CSA. It is clearly stated in the member notice that the annual fee of $450 is the amount of food for a family of four adults, which is about 32 to 40 pounds per week and is supplied for 34 weeks (summer fallow). You can also choose to pay an annual fee of $250 for half a bag. However, if the harvest is short due to natural and man-made disasters, members should share the risk and the membership fee will not be refunded. In fact, this probability is very small, but such a guarantee allows farmers to have a fixed income, and they can farm with peace of mind without worrying about relying on the weather.

To tell the truth, it is really necessary for a farmer to grow vegetables and take care of all kinds of trivial things. Farmer Ross's farm has 15 acres. In addition to her husband helping to deliver and sell vegetables in the market on Sunday, there is also a young man studying organic agriculture who will come to help 25 hours a week, and she will carry the rest alone. However, members and volunteers are the characteristics of CSA farms. Every Wednesday and Saturday, members can choose one day to go to the farmer's market to pick up vegetables. After harvesting vegetables the day before, Mr. and Mrs. Ruth and other volunteers went to the farm to help harvest, clean and repackage. Regular members meet with rose growers once a month to learn about the planting situation, problems and things that volunteers can help. The farm also holds a member party every year. In addition to music and food, everyone will exchange famous recipes.

A volunteer is responsible for sending a newsletter, which includes not only the concept propaganda of CSA, environmental protection and health, farmers' words, but also the special report of the farm next month. It may be the potato harvest season now, and the harvest time will be announced in the newsletter so that members can come to help. I went to help sow corn. Farmer Ross will tell us in advance how wide and deep the corn should be planted there, and everyone will enjoy delicious vegetable soup and bread after being busy. The interesting conclusion this time is that girls farm much faster than boys. In fact, these farming methods are all rare and wonderful experiences for urban people who have never planted anything.

Now the members have 90 families and 75 bags. Most of the members were introduced orally. Every year, when the membership fee is collected, there is a questionnaire for everyone to check their favorite dishes as a reference for one year's breeding. When picking vegetables every week, farmers will meet members and get to know each other. For example, farmers who grow roses don't want to grow strawberries because the harvest is too frequent. With everyone's encouragement and help, we finally got enough to eat this year. In the CSA system, farmers and consumers are closely integrated.

In eliminating pests, she follows the laws of nature, planting seasonal vegetables according to the climate, and planting them in a mixed way to avoid planting only one kind of vegetables in one area. Florida is hot in summer, and it coincides with many thunderstorms, and the pests are particularly fierce, so it is fallow in summer. CSA also advocates the supply of endangered vegetables. In fact, some rare vegetables are very nutritious, but under the market competition, large-scale farmers often only plant some vegetables that consumers prefer, resulting in only a few monotonous vegetables in the market. Therefore, the dishes of Rose Farmer Farm are also very distinctive, such as cabbage in the shape of a dome, pumpkin in the size of a flat palm, and chicken pecking kale with special flavor.

In fact, CSA farms in different regions will develop different styles according to local needs. Some take themselves to the vegetable garden to collect a bag of vegetables every week; Some volunteers help to pack and distribute together; Some are fixed dishes; Some people who eat more take more, while others who eat less take less, and take food according to their real needs. What I like about CSA is that it can be very environmentally friendly under this operation. Every container containing strawberries and tomatoes can be recycled repeatedly. This month, someone made a heart to sew cloth bags for members free of charge, two for each family, as a substitute for picking vegetables. Even some CSA farms collect community kitchen waste for composting, and they design a biodegradable bag of 1.5 gallon to prevent odor leakage and facilitate members to store and transport these kitchen waste. Rose farmer, who has been running CSA farm for six years, also set aside time to give speeches in other cities and spread the concept of CSA. Her advice to the newly-started farm is: start with a small supply, establish a CSA supply and marketing method suitable for your community, and then increase the supply and join different development projects after you are familiar with the operation. Like her farm, it also provides surplus vegetables to low-income poor families or donates them to homeless organizations. Every Sunday, she also organizes "farm trips" to several farms. In addition, she also grows flowers and sells them to members or farmers' market guests. Farmer Rose's vision for the future is: hope to reach the supply of 100 whole bag families, and there will be more organic farms with CSA, some supplying fruits, some supplying milk and eggs, so that everyone can eat more comfortably and happily. After World War II, agricultural scientific research in Taiwan Province Province developed rapidly. Due to the privatization of land, many personalized farm schemes have emerged. In the 1980s and 1990s, many leisure industries, such as leisure farms and sightseeing farms with agriculture as the theme, also developed rapidly.

In addition to public welfare farms organized by the government and agricultural foundations, citizens are also taught to learn planting techniques, experience farming, enjoy labor and leisure, and create a cultural atmosphere of rural life. Independent organization, self-love and self-respect, and division of labor and cooperation are the secrets of running a citizen agricultural park well.

Leisure farms are operated in various places, featuring local crops and production methods, creating a theme agricultural atmosphere, with catering (health tea, cooking), experience, agricultural and sideline products exhibition, agricultural seasonal activities, and agricultural experts sharing activities.

Comprehensive diversification: Toucheng Farm ...

Theme development: Miaoli Meng Tian Vanilla/Yilan Insectivorous Botanical Garden ... Online games are all the rage, offline version of Happy Farm is also popular, and various farms are springing up everywhere.

What is worth mentioning is "Lohas Thai-American Xixi Farm", which combines the experience of citizen farms all over the world, especially the farm management concept in Taiwan Province Province. Advocate "sunshine &; Soil, plants &; Animals, slow life &; Low-carbon "life, industrial operation brings a new vane to the industry.

The farm is located on the west side of Xixi Wetland in Hangzhou Scenic Area, covering an area of 100 mu. This 100 mu of land was divided into more than 1000 independent units and subletted to more than 1000 happy families. Every family renting land has an annual card of Xixi Wetland West District, so behind each piece of land is an out-of-print landscape package built with billions of funds.

Lohas Taimei Xixi Farm interprets the Lohas lifestyle close to the soil to the extreme: the combination of the functions of citizen farm and education farm not only provides private vegetable fields/flower fields for families, but also sets up a rich learning experience area for teenagers. The roads in the field are busy, and every three or five families have facilities to rest and wash, which is a happy scene.

To the south of the plot is a multifunctional greenhouse of more than 3,000 square meters, which integrates fresh ideas such as light hot pot, vanilla coffee, aromatherapy SPA and Lohas market. In Hangzhou, which likes leisure, there is a fashion whirlwind among the citizens. Whether it is parents with children at home, fashionable white-collar workers who catch up with "slow life" or elderly people who enjoy their old age, they can find their own Lohas lifestyle here.