The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is a nonprofit organization working to improve
the economic prosperity, environmental soundness and social propriety of Pennsylvania food and agricultural
systems. We work with farmers who grow our food, consumers who eat the food, and those concerned with the
ecological wellbeing of our environment and natural resources, among many other interest groups.
PASA is the only statewide, member-based, sustainable farming organization in Pennsylvania and the Northeast,
and is one of the largest in the nation. The Association seeks to address the sustainability of the entire
food and agriculture industry, and places great value on efforts to build bridges between various and
disparate participants in the food system.
PASA creates networks and markets to strengthen the ties between concerned consumers and family farmers. PASA
is building statewide channels that link farmers with farmers, farmers with consumers, and consumers with
markets. As our organization has grown, we've had some real successes with a variety of educational
programs - both on and off the farm, that are shaping new partnerships that enhance the lives and livelihoods
of producers and consumers.
PASA is a network of people who care - we all have a role in assuring the health and longevity of our regional
farms and food supply. PASA is the catalyst that brings together those dedicated to advancing sustainable food
and farming systems. PASA is a dynamic new model for partnerships between traditional agricultural and our
ever-changing society and has worked to forge positive and needed changes in the way food is grown, harvested,
distributed, and marketed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Our family farms face enormous threats and whether we can save farming in time is up to all of us. They can
and will be saved - if they have enough friends (and farmers). Please be one of them. Please join us.