Melissa Spike-Meier faced her kohlrabi crisis three years ago. Like thousands of Western New Yorkers, Spike-Meier thought subscribing to a local vegetable farm for the season sounded like a brilliant idea. But when the Sputnik-like kohlrabi showed up in her weekly bag of produce, along with strangers like lacinto kale and daikon radish, the challenge of community supported agriculture hit home.
Northern New Mexico Rio Grande Bioregional News Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relatively new idea in farming which originated in Japan about 35 years ago. A group of women who appreciated fresh, local food were alarmed at the rapid increase in imported foods, which resulted in hundreds of small farms going out of business.
We're in the produce doldrums right now, stuck between a poor growing season in many regions and our early spring harvest. But soon the local asparagus, radishes, lettuces and even strawberries will be ready for us, and it's time to give thought to an important question: How will you spend your money?
Produce On Fridays, Bright Farm in Virginia Beach is bringing homegrown collards and kale to Five Points Community Farm Market on Church Street in Norfolk. The market also is accepting community- supported agriculture subscriptions for spring, summer and fall. Get forms at the market, or via e-mail: farmmarket@verizon.net . Community-supported agriculture - or CSA - is a program in which individuals buy a "share" in a local farm or farms, then receive a "dividend" of a basket of seasonal produce, eggs, fresh flowers and so forth every week. Seafood Dockside Seafood Market and Marina on Shore Drive in Virginia Beach continues to have Lynnhaven oysters straight from reefs in areas open to shellfishing on the Lynnhaven River. You will also find salty seaside oysters from the Eastern Shore ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Allison and Matthew Scott like to tell their extended family in the Chicago area that they have a farm in Springfield. They must have told them a half-dozen times," Noel Scott says of her 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son. The farm is where they bite into a raw onion and eat it like an apple, pick snap peas off the vine and mulberries off the bush for an immediate snack.
By Miranda Merklein For The New Mexican
Phil Gray of Harpswell heads out on the water a couple of days a week to harvest wild Maine mussels. They have a particularly good flavor, he says, and local restaurants have been hungry for them. He's also had some luck selling them at the Brunswick farmers' markets, including the winter market at Fort Andross.
The other night at a dinner party, a couple of Community Supported Agriculture customers joked about the stack of acorn squash in their CSA boxes. "I don't know what do to with all this squash," one of the guests said. "How much baked squash with butter and brown sugar can we eat? Marcia Vanderlip/Tribune
ABINGDON/BRISTOL CSA Contributing farms: Frosted Hawk Farm of Bristol and River Valley Farm of Abingdon. Currently seeking other interested farmers.
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