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What is a CSA?


    Community Supported Agriculture or ‘Teikei’ was developed in Japan in the 1970s as a way to link farmers with consumers in direct relationships. In a CSA, farmers and eaters share in the ups, downs, ins and outs of food production, mitigating the financial and climatic risk inherent to farming and sidestepping exploitative middle men. 

    CSA is an empowering acknowledgement of our mutual dependence. 














    Principles of Teikei:


    Principle of mutual assistance

    Principle of accepting the produce

    Principle of mutual concession in the price decision

    Principle of deepening friendly relationships

    Principle of self-distribution

    Principle of democratic management




    Why CSA?


      We would like to get away from the commoditisation of the food we produce, where a commodity is stripped of its story in order to become a label and take a market value. Labels and certifications, as much as they provide an approximation of provenance, also create a barrier, something to hide behind. In that system farmers are neither compelled nor obliged to be public facing, while eaters are prevented from probing more deeply into the origins of their food, the people who produced it or the landscape it was drawn from. 

      By contrast, we would like to invite you into and become part of our story—our challenges, learnings and achievements, as we strive to express our values in our farming and sharing what comes of it.

      CSA offers a way to decommodify our food, to find supporters who we can speak to directly, and with that support, commit to our story without compromise. 





      What do you get?


        Zintara beef & goat delivered to your locale on a monthly basis

        Delivery to central pick up location in Brunswick, Seddon and Surf Coast





        3kg/month
        $99


          5kg/month
          $165


          8kg/month
          $264




          Plus;


            Access to Zintara:

            Farm visits

            Camping access

            Annual working bee and lunch


            Transparency:

            Monthly email updates with goings-on around the farm

            Environmental impact and changes

            Future carbon auditing

            Livestock handling practices

            Ask us anything! Better yet, come see for yourself. The CSA should connect eaters more closely to the farm and knowledge of food production.





            We have a waiting list for our CSA membership if you’d like to add your name to the list please send as a message via button bellow or email us at jess@zintara.farm

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            Greenslopes Rd. Trawool 
Victoria Australia. 3660 

            We acknowledge that Zintara is located on the lands of the Taungurung people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and future, as we walk on, learn from and live off these lands. We value the Taungurung tradition of careful, considered custodianship of these lands, and are grateful for this as we try to follow in their footsteps.