Community Supported Agriculture

Farming 101: Growing Pains

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Organic Farming, Organic Food, Organic, Csa, Agriculture, Farming, Farming Advice, Farming Life, Mindfulness, Community Supported Agriculture, Life on a Farm, Living on a Farm, Farming Tips, Healthy Living News

Farming, I'm learning, is one part obstacle course, one part adventurous labor camp, and two parts planning, guesswork, and abrupt problem-solving.

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A Model Farmer: Fashion to Farming

Leona Palmer | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Models, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Fashion, Organic Food, Sustainable Food, Mindfulness, Life Changes, Life Lessons, Emotional Wellness, CSA Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, CSA Farm, Healthy Living News

I once heard that humans seek out natural environments because nature is not in resistance to itself. Having finally accepted the truth that my father is gone, I am surrendering my resistance as well.

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Interview: Debbie Thomas Of Thomas Hill Organics

Menuism | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Food, Paso Robles, Thomas-Hill-Organics, Food News

Joe and Debbie Thomas began as a teacher and marketing executive, respectively. But today, they run a ten-acre organic farm in the east hills of Paso Robles, California.

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Don't 'Let Them Eat Cake!'

Olga Bonfiglio | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Offthebus, Fred Upton, Super Committee, Food and Farm Bill, offthebus2012, Debbie Stabenow, Michigan, Agriculture, Food Politics, Politics News

A small group of Kalamazoo food activists and professionals have begun studying the Food and Farm Bill so that they can talk to and influence policymakers, two of whom will play a key role in this year's [Congressional] appropriations.

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Art As a Produce Box? Finding Sustenance in the Art World's Food Chain

Monica Westin | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Threewalls, Csa, Interactive Art, Art and Food, Threewalls Chicago, Threewalls Csa Project, Art Csas, Community Supported Agriculture, Community Supported Art, Chicago News

Threewalls, an artist nonprofit here in Chicago, is using sustainable food distribution models for the production and distribution of contemporary art.

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I Was a CSA Junkie

Liz Neumark | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, Local Food Movement, Local Farmers, Farmers Markets, Green News

So what's it like to go from member to provider? Even though I was an ardent member of my CSA, I had no idea of the complexity involved in executing the process or products.

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Technology's Place in Transforming Agriculture

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Food, Supply Chain, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Farmers Markets, Agriculture, Farming Business, Agriculture Business, Agribusiness, Food Suppliers, Food Industry, Business News

The distended relationship between farms and individuals is the fundamental problem in the food system we've inherited. Supply chains and the corporate cultures that house them keep information isolated.

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My First C.S.A.

Jamaliya Cobine | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, c.s.A., Rhubarb Pie, Community Supported Agriculture Share, Csa, Rhubarb Pie Recipe, Food News

After much campaigning from my husband, I decided to consider a C.S.A. share this year. I challenged myself to create and post new recipes while designing my weekly menu around these amazing organic veggies.

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The Best Salad I Ever Served

Rebecca Shoval | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Salad, Csa, Farmers, Community-Supported-Agriculture, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Farmers Markets, Seasonal-Produce, Fresh Produce, Food News

I enjoyed making food for people in restaurants and did some rewarding catering in the past. None of that compared to the utter pleasure of distributing our unbelievably fresh, sustainably grown produce for the first week of our CSA.

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Boulder Prepares for Hard Times Ahead with "Food Localization"

Bob Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teri Dillion, Nicole Foss, Michael Brownlee, Carolyn Baker, Transition Colorado, Community Supported Agriculture, Obama Transition, Margaret Emerson, Transition Towns, Stoneleigh, Denver Impact, Best of Denver, Denver News

Like so many chirping miner's canaries, about 400 people met last weekend in a Boulder church and hotel to talk about what might perhaps best be calle...

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An Award Winning Weekend

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Food, Local Food, Local Food Movement, Local Farmers, Farmers Markets, Food News

It is the simple delights that make life sweet. All around us, political upheaval, economic crisis and technological revolution confound and dazzle u...

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Kung Fu Farming: Toward Understanding Complex Systems

Leah Mayor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kung Fu Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, Csa, Farm Tours, Eco Tours, Bruce Lee, Dan Hayhurst, Sustainable Agriculture, Chubby Bunny Farm, Sustainability Education, Tracy Hayhurst, Tourism, Sustainability, Complex Systems, Food News

Nourishing the relationship between seed and land is critical to restoring sustainability. And by visiting Chubby Bunny Farm, I took a small but important step in feeling connected to the food and people that sustain my life.

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Making FarmVille Real

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farming, Community Supported Agriculture, Social Games, Farmville, Farmers Markets, Technology News

The way people have responded to the game suggests they want to be part of something bigger, an on-going process that yields something colorful, flavorful, valuable.

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Know Your 1,138 Marital Privileges, Courtesy of the Feds

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minor Spouse, Glbt, Social Security, Work-Related Injuries, Bloggers, Matrimania, Estate Taxes, Widowers, Marital Status, Old Age, Defense of Marriage Act, Veterans, Same-Sex Marriage, Most Important Person in Your Life, Tax Exemptions, Singlism, Legal Code, Community Supported Agriculture, Federal Civilian Employees, Disability, Benefits for Married People, Secondary Education, Family, Spouse, Friend, Federal Military Employees, 1138 Federal Laws, Military Personnel, Marital Privileges, Intimate Partner, Tax Breaks, Definition of Marriage, Family Farms, Stalking, Presidential Powers, Agricultural Loans, Taxation of Gifts, Unmarried Partners, Farmers, Residential Land Use, Singles Penalty, Gifts, Widows, National Parks, Locavores, Hardship, Onely, Politics News

The report also makes it clear that some of the 1,000+ laws identified "may not directly create benefits, rights, or privileges" for married people.

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Thoughtful Food, Food for Thought

Elizabeth Cunningham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Food, Green News

I am in the vegetable garden pulling weeds (it is always a good year for weeds.) I am glad to be away from the computer with my hands and feet in dirt. I am thinking: there is no such thing as a virtual vegetable garden.

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Community Supported Agriculture, Iron Cheffin' It And Making The Time

Sandra VanderVen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Community Supported Agriculture, Eating in Week, The Week of Eating In, Green News

One of the best things I have done in the last few years is order a Community Supported Agriculture box (CSA). It arrives full of fresh, plausibly lo...

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Eco Etiquette: How To Eat Local This Winter

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Winter CSAs, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Csa, Farmers Markets, Green News

For those of us in the Midwest, summer is so much easier when it comes to eating local -- lots of farmers markets stocked with goodies from local grow...

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What's Cooking This No Impact Week

Paul McRandle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: No Impact Week, Organic Food, Nrdc, Sustainability, Huffington Post, Community Supported Agriculture, Green News

Food is the focus of this fourth day of the eight-day "week" and if you find shopping at the farmer's market no challenge, take on foraging for your meals instead.

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Is Whole Foods Losing Its Sustainable Luster?

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Whole Foods' very presence in small regional markets undermines established relationships between regional food retailers and suppliers, including farmers, processors and related service providers.

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Dear Julia Child, We Need You!

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chefs, Television, Farms, Cooking, Farmers, Community-Supported Agriculture, Kitchen, Julia Child, Food, Home, Farmers Market, Csa, Mark Bittman, Green News

I wonder how the rising popularity of cooking networks and shows about cooking has contributed to the migration of eating away from the home.

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Farmonomics: It's All About the Land

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Farming, Farming, Family Farms, Green News

Sowing the seeds of the right approach to farmland preservation today will enable more of us to reap the bounty of locally grown produce long into the future.

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Community-Supported Agriculture: Great Cheap, Green Veggies

Chelsea Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Food, Green Living, Eating Matters, Csa, Green News

The following is an excerpt from Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En. It...

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From Gardening to Farming: A Glimpse at Long Island's Garden of Eve Organic Farm

Cathy Erway | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Supported Agriculture, Organic Farming, Garden of Eve, Long Island Farms, Chemical-Free Farming, Pesticide-Free Farming, Csa, Agriculture, Green News

After a trip out to Garden of Eve organic farm in Riverhead, I was introduced to a world of old-school farming values being led for the most part by young and fresh-thinking pioneers.

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Community Kitchens A Lot More Than Free Food

Graham Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slow Food, Eating Locally, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Community Kitchens, Soup Kitchen, Green News

Economists are predicting zero growth next year...if an Obama stimulus plan works! Which means community kitchens will be more important than ever for...

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Community Supported Agriculture: Green Food At Your Doorstep

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Farming, Vegetarian, Food Matters, Local Food, Politics of Food, Eating Matters, Local Food Movement, Csa, Vegan, Sustainability, Community Supported Agriculture, Green Living, Locavore, Green News

Short of tilling your own backyard, joining a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme is perhaps the most effective way you can green your eating...

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