{"id":6389,"date":"2020-02-13T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:44:58","slug":"csa-is-growing-big-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ripess.eu\/en\/csa-is-growing-big-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"CSA is Growing Big in the Netherlands!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Klarien Klingen, Dutch CSA Farmer<br>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CSA  is growing big in the Netherlands! Five years ago there were only five  initiatives, now there are over 90. In Flanders part of Belgium,  where the same language is used as the Netherlands, the CSA network is a  bit more advanced: their formal association has been existing for  several years now and many CSA initiatives as well. 170 Dutch and  Flemish CSA farmers and members met for the yearly CSA meeting in  Deventer, NL, on the 11th and 12th of January 2020.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When\n we sat over dinner we discovered that the Flanders people find it very \nusual to ask a membership fee of 350euros per person per year to \nparticipate in a CSA initiative, where the dutch think \u20ac250 is normal. \nIt\u2019s just great to be able to discover those differences, speculate on \nwhere they come from (is the climate different 300 kms more north? Is \nthat why the Flanders people can produce more veggies throughout \nwinter?), and learn from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n topic of membership fee came up several times through the weekend. It \nwas very new for the participants of the workshop \u2018CSA and solidarity\u2019 \nto hear about \u2018the Freiburg\u2019 model where members put the price they\u2019re \nwilling to pay on a note, everything is added up, and if the total sum \nis not enough to cover the total costs of production (including labor!),\n another round will follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/urgenci.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG-20200116-WA0016.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7600\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same workshop a new idea was presented: what if we ask members to pay for one week of vegetables the money <em>they<\/em>  make in 1 hour. This could provide a whole new way of looking at  pricing: the money is not related to vegetables but to labor. And the  price people have to pay is very much adapted to their own capacity to  pay. Let\u2019s see where this will go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Land\n is a big topic in the Netherlands, where a piece of arable land costs \non average \u20ac100.000 per hectare to buy. This makes it very difficult to \npay for with normal primary production. CSA can offer better \nopportunities of course, but to build up soil and to build up a network \nof members long term access to land is a prerequisite. One of the \nfarmers of the plenary session finds it unjust is people make money over\n land, just by owning it. He believes money should be made over labor \nand not over ownership. With a group of people he bought land and \ntogether they now work on how to formalize this land free from profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CSA\n Netherlands\/Flanders is a vibrant community that is developing fast and\n enthusiastically. We can\u2019t wait to meet CSA initiatives to together \nlearn and together work on our common dream: food sovereignty for all! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Klarien Klingen, Dutch CSA Farmer CSA is growing big in the Netherlands! Five years ago there were only five initiatives, now there are over 90. 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