Entries Tagged as 'Community Supported Agriculture'

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Mea Culpa on the DIY CSA

So maybe I overreacted at the state of my current CSA farm and didn’t give the farmers enough credit for how hard it was to produce, well, produce during this difficult growing climate this year. To all the people who posted comments and sent me private emails–you’re right: I have no idea how difficult it [...]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

DIY CSA

I’ve been a huge fan of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs for quite some time now. I’ve belonged to two farms locally, and been pretty pleased with the quality and quantity of locally grown, organic vegetables members could get. That is, until this past year. This year my CSA farm got new farmers. They seem [...]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Eco-Friendly Celebrations

Before you know it wedding season will be upon us, and with green being the new wedding white, you can bet plenty of people will be planning eco-friendly weddings. I recently read an article that offered some of the following tips for planning a green wedding : * having a daytime, outdoors wedding so you [...]

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The 411 on CSAs

The summer I belonged to a CSA (community supported agriculture), our evening meals often featured purple potatoes, kale and just-picked watermelon–all organically grown. That’s because a CSA membership is a “subscription” to a local organic farm that allowed me to a weekly pick of fresh, organically grown produce. According to Local Harvest, a website devoted [...]