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Endnotes:Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC). www.macsac. org/aboutcsa.html 2 Urban Ecology Center /csa/csa.html#whatis 3 MACSAC. /csahistory.html 4 MACSAC. /csahistory.html 5 Personal communication with John Hendrickson, 6/24/07. 6 MACSAC. /csahistory.html 7 Personal communication from John Hendrickson, 6/15/07, based on query of www. 8 9 10 11 Southern WI /atlas/farms/csa.htm; Southeast WI www. /csa.htm; Western WI /farms.cfm; Eastern WI / les/farm%20fresh%20atlas%20layout-A-Final-May12. pdf; Central WI call 715-343-6214 12 Groundwater and its Role in Comprehensive Planning: Comprehensive Planning and Groundwater Fact Sheet 1. dnr.wi.gov/org/water/dwg/gw/pubs/SmartGrowth1.pdf 13 Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics Service. 2006. Wisconsin Pesticide Use. www.nass. usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Wisconsin/Publications/Miscellaneous/pest_use_06.pdf 14 Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. 2002. Agricultural chemicals in Wisconsin groundwater: nal report. ARM-PUB-98.qxd. Madison, WI. 15 Lass, Daniel et al. Community Supported Agriculture Entering the 21st Century: Results from the 2001 National Survey. www.cias.wisc.edu/pdf/CSA_survey_01.pdf 16 These 50 CSAs were listed as certi ed organic, organic, not using pesticides or not using synthetic pesticides and were compiled from the CSA lists from MACSAC www. /consider.html, Urban Ecology Center and the Farm Fresh Atlases listed in endnote 10 on June 18, 2007. 17 Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council Report to the Legislature. 2006. p.74 /org/water/dwg/gcc/rtl/2006report.pdf 18 Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council Report to the Legislature. 2006. pp.7374 /org/water/dwg/gcc/rtl/2006report.pdf 19 Pimentel, D., P. Hepperly, J. Hanson, D. Douds, and R. Seidel. 2005. Environment, energy, and economic comparisons of organic and conventional farming systems. Bioscience 55(7): 573-582. US Department of Agriculture. 2006. CSREES Research Results: Organic and Integrated Farrming Key to Lowering Nitrogen Leaching. www. da.gov/newsroom/news/2006news/nitrogen_organic.html 20 McIsaac, G.F., an

d R. A. Cooke. (no date). Evaluation of Water Quality from Alternative Cropping Systems Using a Multiple-Paired Design. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. asap.aces.uiuc.edu/research/stew_farm/home.html 21 Personal communication with John Hendrickson, 6/24/07. 22 MACSAC /rebates.html 23 Eating Better Than Organic. Time, March 02,2007 /time/magazine/ article/0,9171,1595245,00.html; The Vegetable-Industrial Complex, New York Times, October 15, 2006 /2006/10/15/magazine/15wwln_lede.html?ex=118 2398400&en=b2fad4ce7ad62d25&ei=50701

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Written by Lynn Markham, Center for Land Use Education, 2007. Layout and design by Robert Newby. The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions and review of this publication provided by John Hendrickson and Diane Mayerfeld of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, Christine Mechenich, Laura Brown, University of Wisconsin Extension, Erin Schneider, Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition, and Bruce Rheineck and Jeff Postle from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Financial assistance for this project was provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.Center for Land Use Education

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