CSA - Community Supported Agriculture - You buy shares in a farm, and get a box of produce every week. Your box will vary depending on what's in season.
For more information, go to http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
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I just received sugar snap peas, green beans, cucumbers, summer squash, greens, red head lettuce, a huge bundle of rosemary, and gooseberries! Everything is organic
Nuthin! (Seriously, my CSA switched to dryland farming methods last year, making the growing season really late , more or less the end of June through the beginning of November. I am anxiously waiting for my first box, but it is interesting to hear what other people are getting, depending on where they are. It sounds like you got a lovely box. I love gooseberries!
Wednesday is our CSA "veggie day" as well. It makes the middle of the week more exciting!
Today our box contained:
Celery
Carrots
Snow Peas
Baby Red Onions
A Very Small Broccoflower
Cauliflower
Zucchini
Green Leaf Lettuce
Red Leaf Lettuce
Butter Lettuce
Savoy Cabbage
Strawberries
Thanks for reminding me , I used to get this when I lived in another community and could not locate it when I moved I remember we just called it SHARE, I checked on CSA after seeing your post , there is a pick up location less than a mile from me.Thanks!
Thanks for reminding me , I used to get this when I lived in another community and could not locate it when I moved I remember we just called it SHARE, I checked on CSA after seeing your post , there is a pick up location less than a mile from me.Thanks!
Where I live, there was a program called "SHARE" which was a discounted food program but not a farm support program.
Ours is $672 for the entire growing season, April through December. It's actually less than I was spending at the farmer's market here anyway. We eat A LOT of veggies.
Suzanne, being that you are another old maid like me, do you find this cost effective? I am worried about getting too much or things I cannot stand and having it spoil.
soulbliss, I think you are right about SHARE ,you had to agree to do volunteer work and it was $14 a week.This quite a while ago. I realize CSA is not the same , but the benefits are similar.
LindaT I see you are in San Jose,too, well, I am actually in Saratoga. I live alone and would punch anybody's lights out if that called me an old maid.I haven't started CSA yet but I will share with someone what I cannot use.
LindaT I see you are in San Jose,too, well, I am actually in Saratoga. I live alone and would punch anybody's lights out if that called me an old maid.I haven't started CSA yet but I will share with someone what I cannot use.
Just saw this topic today! Thursday is my pickup day so I'll post an update in a couple of days! I absolutely love doing the CSA thing! You eat differently with a CSA that is for sure!
I have got to tell you all that I had a beet left over from the previous week. I had seen Rachael Ray on TV at a friend's house - making crab cakes using potatoes as a binder. I thought it sounded good and I got some fresh crab meat. I used the purple potatoes, since that is what was in the bag - and the beet with it (as well as onions, garlic scapes, spices) and I had the most brilliantly bright purple crab cakes!!!! Really - they were wonderful!!
My mom and I thought about going in on a CSA share, splitting the box, but we didn't get to it this year. They're an awesome program! We did SHARE a while back too, and that's a good program. Back then it was called Fair Share.