What is it?

See a summary presentation here

Transition Cambridge CropShare is a small-scale community-supported agriculture (CSA) scheme in Cambridge.

It experiments with ‘crop-sharing,’ which we define as an exchange of use of land for access to labour - creating opportunities for farm-community collaboration.

How does it work?

In early 2011, we teamed up with local farm Waterland Organics. We brought groups of volunteers to the farm over the season to help with planting, weeding and harvesting their onion crop- which had a bumper yield of 6.5 tonnes in total from 2000 sq m! After harvest celebrations, committed core CropShare members received 10 kg of onions each, and decided as a group what to do with our agreed 1/2 a tonne share of the onion harvest. We donated onions to local charities Foodcycle, Emmaus, Jimmy's Night Shelter and Winter Comfort, onions were braided at the Cambridge Food and Garden Festival and our core members enjoyed an exclusive chutney-making session.

We then had a successful 2012 season helping to farm all crops on the farm and plan to do the same in 2013!

Cropshare Work Party Dates 2013 (Subject to change due to weather)

All dates are Saturdays.

16th March
30th March CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER :-(
6th April
20th April
4th May -Still spaces! Sign up now here
18th May
25th May
1st June
8th June
15th June
22nd June
6th July
20th July
24th August
31st August
21st Sept
28th Sept
12th Oct