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Food For Thought: Sign Up For A CSA In Your Neighborhood

The Huffington Post | Ashley McAdams | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Best of Ny, Brooklyn Csa, New-York-Csa, NY Around Town, NY Restaurants, Best of New York, Slideexpand, Csa, Community-Shared-Agriculture, New York News

Summertime and the living is easy: sand between your toes, picnics in the park, homemade berry cobbler. Whoa, whoa, whoa wait -- where are those st...

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Farming 101: Growing Pains

Leona Palmer | Posted 03.29.2012

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 Second Career As An Organic Farmer

Julie Brothers | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Organic Food, Organic Garden, Csa, The Right to Farm Act, Millstone Farm, Grant Family Farm, Organic Farming Story, Farmer's Markets, Wwoofing, Local Farming, Food News

Instead of living in NYC, I was to live and intern on an organic farm only a stones-throw from the City. Close enough for the just-in-case emergency evacuation. No exit strategy necessary.

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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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Pickled Okra From my C.S.A. Share

Jamaliya Cobine | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Pickles, Pickled Okra, c.s.A., Recipes, Okra, Cooking, Refrigerator Pickles, Quick Pickle, Recipe, Csa, Food News

My C.S.A. share blessed me with a vegetable both loved and loathed by many: okra.

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Why We Should Care Where Our Food Comes From

Malia Cohen | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Bayview, Mayor Ed Lee, Agriculture, Food Politics, Food Policy, Producers, San Francisco, Csa, Bay Area, Sefa, San Francisco News

The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market is a gem nestled in the heart of the Southeast Section of San Francisco. Now that the lease is about to expire, the City is looking to renew the lease with a larger vision for the future.

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Creamy Spring Asparagus Soup

Jamaliya Cobine | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Organic Food, Asparagus, Recipes, Sustainable Food, Easy Recipes, Food, Soup, Recipe, Csa, Asparagus Soup Recipe, Asparagus Soup, Food News

For the first couple weeks of my C.S.A. Share I got a lot of the same. Scallions, greens, and yes, asparagus week after week. So what is a girl to do with several bunches of asparagus? Soup is on!

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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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French Ban Words 'Twitter' And 'Facebook' From TV, Radio

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: France Facebook, France Bans Facebook, France Bans Twitter, France Twitter, French Ban Facebook, Csa, French Ban Twitter, Technology News

How do you say Twitter and Facebook in French? You don't say them at all. France has banned the names of both social networking sites from being s...

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Vegetable Recipes To Avoid The Heat

Daniel Klein | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Daniel Klein, Vegetarian, Local Food, Csa, Perennial Plate, Organic, Recipe, Sustainable, Food News

In summertime we see local vegetables everywhere: at the grocery store, in the back garden, farmer's market or in a CSA (Community Supported Agricultu...

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So You Think You Want To Be An Organic Farmer?

Daniel Klein | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Daniel Klein, Farmers Market, Local Food, Summer, Sustainable Food, Csa, Perennial Plate, Harvest, Organic, Vegetable, Food News

Last spring I had the pleasure of following the farm-to-market process with one of the "successful" upstart organic farms in Minnesota. Laura and Adam...

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Large-Scale Coffee CSA Debuts

Slashfood | Kristine Hansen, Posted Apr 11th 2011 @ 12:00PM | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Small Farms, Organic Farming, Coffee Farming, Consumer Supported Agriculture, Pachamama, Sustainable Food, Pachamama Coffee, Sustainable Agriculture, Coffee, Coffee CSA, Fair Trade Coffee, Fair Trade, Csa, Food News

Today, a new coffee CSA (it's actually called Coffee CSA) debuts as a project from Pachamama, a global cooperative of coffee farms. Though there are s...

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Speak Easy: A Food Panel in Brooklyn

Cara Cannella | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Colm Toibin, Food, Wine, Entrepreneurship, Csa, Brooklyn, Food News

I'm excited to provide a forum for some of the most talented, and passionate people I know to tell their stories of building businesses through partnerships with other Brooklyn-based companies.

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A Love Letter to Chicago, Signed in Hot Sauce

Rebecca Kosick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food, Hot Sauce, Chicago, Cooking, Organic Food, Chicago Food, Chicago Around Town, Csa, Habanero Sauce, Chicago Restaurants, Chicago News

Chicago's got one of the most outstanding restaurant scenes this side of anywhere. By example, these restaurants showed me how to put food and flavors together, how to craft a dish and a meal.

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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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Around the Corner

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greenmarket, Eating Locally, Urban Agriculture, Local Food, Union Square Farmers Market, Local Food Movement, Csa, Green News

It's going to happen. You know how they say darkest before the dawn? Well, February is here and that means that next month we get ready to welcome...

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Eating in Trumps Eating Out

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Disposable Income, Supply Chain, Farming, Food, Consumers, Csa, Consumerism, Local Food, Farmers Markets, Food News

Americans spend significantly more money on food they eat at home than they do on food they eat out. Supply chains make it nearly impossible for farmers to reach consumers.

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Who Do You Really Pay for Your Food?

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Markets, Farmers, Supply Chain, Food, Consumers, Food Prices, Csa, Farming, Farmers Markets, Marketing, Usda, Food News

Is it any surprise that farmers would seek the closer connection to consumers? Getting food to market has become relatively more expensive, while the share that the farmer earns has dropped off.

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Suburb Sprawls Sustainability

Ben Zolno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Farming, Permaculture, Chicago Suburbs, Organic Food, Local Food, Charter Schools, Suvs, Sustainability, Renewables, Green Business, Green Energy, Organic, Csa, Prairie Crossing, Ellen Page, Chicago News

Check out this new video about how a subdivision farm works with the restaurant just a few yards away, which serves their food often just hours after harvest.

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The Value of Food, or Why Sotheby's Will Auction Veggies on September 23

Brian Halweil and Brent Ridge | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Movement, Local Food, Sothebys Auction, Heirloom Tomatoes, Greenmarkets, Csa, Sothebys, Amangansett, Green News

The auction is a coming-of-age sign for heirloom vegetables: those old-fashioned symbols of food diversity that are just the sort of innovation our dysfunctional food system needs.

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The Heart of Teaching and Learning: The Kids Want Kale

Kate Quarfordt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Healthy Food, Food Justice, Michelle Obama, Education, Charter Schools, Csa, Health, Healthy Diet, Let's Move, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Harlem Children's Zone, New York, South Bronx, New York News

The children at Bronx Prep are clamoring for vegetables. Not fries soaked in hot sauce from the Chinese take-out across the street.

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Vegetable Garden Phenomena

Valerie Easton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organic Vegetables, Flowers, Potager, Organic Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Lettuce, Csa, Home News

"We've become disconnected from the source of our food, and I hope to change that," says Camille LaTray, proprietress of Raven and the Spade, a two-a...

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When America Was Attacked

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, Governor Haley Barbour, Confederate History Month, Star-Spangled Banner, 9/11, Georgia, Habeas Corpus, Abraham Lincoln, Vigrinia, Mississippi, Textas, Lincoln, Csa, Confederate Flag, Union History Month, Dixie, Politics News

The Confederacy was a well-armed rogue organization. And this is what Virginia wants to commemorate with a Confederate History Month.

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Stop Procrastinating! Plant Your Veggie Garden Now (or Not)

Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Veggie Share, Kale, Organic Food, Local Farmers, Csa, Boulder, Gardening, Denver News

Through CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) I was able to participate in farming when I had the urge to connect with my food, or wait until my weekly veggie share appeared on my doorstep.

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