Celebrate “Thank a Local Farmer” Week September 19-September 2 The Pennsylvania House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee is sponsoring “Thank a Local Farmer” week September 19-25. We’re taking action by supporting local farmers and donating a portion of our organic and local produce sales to Pasa to further support local food systems. Four Seasons Produce [...]
Each February, our co-op has the privilege of sponsoring the annual PASA, Sustainable Agriculture Conference. This year’s conference took place in Lancaster, PA, from February 6-9. The schedule was packed with food and farming education sessions, inspiring keynote addresses, and a very touching PASAbilities awards ceremony where Pittsburgh’s own Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers Co-op [...]
PASA works to improve the environmental soundness, social responsibility, and economic viability of food and farming systems in Pennsylvania and beyond. In existence since 1992, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is a diverse network of growers, businesses, and consumers that facilitates and enables viable farming systems to provide healthy food as locally as [...]
By Erica Peiffer, Marketing & Member Services In the spirit of Cooperative Principle 5, Education, Training, and Information and Cooperative Principle 7, Concern for Community, I attended Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture’s 27th Annual Farming for the Future Conference. The four-day conference took place February 7-9 at Penn State University. The theme this [...]
by Dan Dalton, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is one of the largest and most active sustainable agriculture organizations in the United States. PASA is a diverse network of growers, businesses and consumers that facilitates and enables viable farming systems through innovative farming-to-farmer exchange, farm based research, [...]