Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Joining a CSA

Going out to Johns Island today to join a CSA!  Very excited, for those of you unfamiliar with a CSA- it means community supported agriculture.  This means for an upfront cost (really reasonable for fresh veggies/fruit), every week you get fresh produce grown from a local farm.  This helps the farmer out by having a direct market for their produce and helps you out by eating fresh and local!  It is a win/win!  Plus, you get to know your local farms/farmers, and your food will be so fresh it will probably still have dirt on it- how cool is that!  Side note, I am a dirt lover!  Nothing smells quite as good as fresh wholesome dirt, teeming with life!  Anyway, do a little research in your area and I am sure you can find a CSA to support or at least a local farmer's market.  We are blessed to live in a wam climate where we can grow all year long, so we can have access to a CSA and/or farmer's market year around.  Yummy collards (I really could live off of them!), radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kale, and other winter veggies!  We grow as much as we can in raised garden beds, but with four growing boys we can always use more fresh produce, plus we can freeze or can the surplus!

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