Jan Vander Tuin

Jan Vander Tuin is a founder of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement.^[1][2][3][4] He is also a cycling activist and bicycle designer, and in 1992 started the Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene, Oregon.^[5]

Vander Tuin learned about co-operative biodynamic farming in Switzerland,^[6][7] and is credited with bringing his Swiss experience to the revival of local agriculture in the US.^[8] Vander Tuin settled in Eugene, Oregon in 1990. He started building workbikes under the name Human Powered Machines. Under the umbrella of the Center for Appropriate Transport, he nurtured a bicycle repair school,^[9] the Network Charter School,^[10][11] and the first car-sharing co-op in the US.^{[12][13][14][15]}

References

1. ↑ History of Community Supported Agriculture: Rodale Institute
2. ↑ Just Food: The History of the CSA
3. ↑ VanderTuin, Jan. (1992). "Zürich Supported Agriculture", RAIN magazine 14(2), Winter/Spring.
4. ↑ "Community Supported Agriculture," RAIN magazine Winter/Spring 1992.
5. ↑ "CAT", Rain Magazine
6. ↑ Leo McMahon (November 14, 2013). "Transition Town Kinsale leads the way in community-supported projects with local farmers". The Southern Star. Retrieved 19 August 2015. 
7. ↑ Raheli S. Millman (August 8, 2004). "ENVIRONMENT; Food Shoppers? Call Them Shareholders". The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2015. The practice was brought to New England in 1984 by Jan Vander Tuin, a Swiss farmer, according to several Web sites maintained by the movement. 
8. ↑ Steven McFadden. "Part I: Community Farms in the 21st Century: Poised for Another Wave of Growth?". The Rodale Institute. Retrieved 19 August 2015. 
9. ↑ Eugene Bicycle Works: University of Oregon
10. ↑ Network Charter School proposal
11. ↑ The Network Charter School: Eugene Register-Guard, 2004
12. ↑ Eugene Car Co-op: Getty Images
13. ↑ The CarSharer's Companion: Portland State University
14. ↑ Paul Ollswang: Eugene Car Co-op
15. ↑ Hertz and Avis get a new Competitor: Fortune magazine, November 14, 1994