Agriculture Reference
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Civic agriculture activities such as urban gardens, farmers' markets, roadside stands, and
CSAs, as aspects of the civic community, become a powerful template around which to
build non- or extramarket relationships between persons, social groups, and institutions that
have been distanced from each other. Indeed a growing number of community groups across
the United States are recognizing that creative new forms of community development, built
around the regeneration of local food systems, may eventually generate sufficient econom-
ic and political power to mute the more socially and environmentally destructive manifesta-
tions of the global marketplace. A turn toward a more civic agriculture is both theoretically
and practically possible. Indeed, the seeds have been sown and are taking root throughout
the United States. Civic agriculture represents a promising economic alternative that can nur-
ture community businesses, save farms, and preserve farmland by providing consumers with
fresh, locally produced agricultural and food products.
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