In 2002 CEFS initiated a program to connect CSA farmers with employees of the Research Triangle Institute International (RTI), located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. As a host institution, RTI offered growers a pick-up location convenient to their CSA members, coordinated on-site opportunities for potential members to meet with CSA farmers, and utilized their internal communication network to promote the CSA concept and provide advertising for each grower in the program. The opportunity to market to this targeted audience has enabled several local producers to build new CSA programs and expanded the membership of existing CSA enterprises.

Read how this project was organized in the extension bulletin: "Workplace CSA: Conncting Local Farms to Local Employers." Use the links below to download the bulletin and appendix. Each piece can be downloaded by clicking on the preferred file type following the title.