Community Supported Agriculture (CSA Building bridges between villages - Setting up direct relationships between growers and consumers of agricultural products -

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Guneskoy Cooperative has applied CSA to support sustainable living in traditional villages by ecological food production based on an economy with mutual support between people living in city and a village. Each week vegetables are picked up and distributed to the supporters in the city. The villages in traditional villages could not take any risk for an alternative production, no matter how environmentally friendly it is. When organic agriculture was started in Guneskoy they silently observed this new way of production system without using any commercial seeds and fertilizers. Several farmers from nearby village, Hisarkoy, accepted to work in the project with salary and social security. Soon after they acquired experience in organic farming and establish links with local organic markets, they started their own business. Families consisting of husband, wife, children and elderly, took responsibility all together for the production and marketing. From our experience we found that a piece