Name: Catskills Agrarian Alliance
Item: Catskills Agrarian Alliance
Author: Mariellen Brown

Catskills Agrarian Alliance (CAA) is a comprehensive food sovereignty project built from the ground up by farmers in Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie Counties in New York State. For a decade, our community of farmers have been working out of necessity on an alternative production and distribution project. We fundraise to provide mutual aid to historically under-resourced communities; grow and source food from local farms; facilitate regional land-access work; and operate a regional value-chain, collaborating with and serving a variety of partners (including schools, businesses, households, and mutual aid groups).

We imagine a worldview in which Earth is not just an extractable resource, food is not a commodity, and partnership replaces exploitation. We see ourselves in a populated Catskills’ farmland of the not-too-distant future thriving ecologically and economically under the stewardship of farmers growing nutrient-dense food made available to all the people within our foodshed.

Tagged as: Bee Products, Dairy, Diversified Farming, Food and Beverage, Fruits, Vegetables, or Herbs, Grain, Pulses, or Oilseeds, Livestock or Meat, Maple and Tree Products, Poultry or Eggs

Catskills Agrarian Alliance

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