When I told my friends I’d be blogging about my CSA experience, one of them suggested a future blogging subject…”Beets Again?” When I told some neighbors about the farm, one warned me that at the end of the season it’s just “potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes.”
It’s true that Mother Nature didn’t take our desire for [...]

Every week when I go to the farm, I learn something new.  Sometimes it’s something essential, like where the bathroom is (phew!) or how to turn the lights on so that I can see inside the walk-in cooler where each week’s vegetables are stored until pick-up. Other times it’s more practical information on how the [...]

I brought my daughter with me to the farm last Saturday. Just us two: an eight-year-old girl and her mom on a date to work on the farm. She brought her gardening gloves, her camera, her book, and a snack. I brought my gardening gloves, a water bottle and an apple. I opted to not [...]

A day in the life of a CSA share holder  . . . by guest blogger Gina Sampaio:
I have to admit I briefly considered not really trying the radish and just saying I did. In the end, my inner Girl Scout (did I mention I’m also a Brownie leader?) won out and I begrudgingly tasted [...]

A day in the life of a CSA share holder  . . . by guest blogger Gina Sampaio:
Once I decided that our family needed to buy a share in a local CSA, I needed to decide where. There were two local ones that I knew of offhand: one that a few of my husband’s siblings [...]

You’ve probably heard of CSAs but have you ever wondered who buys shares or why? Check out some first-hand CSA experiences from our guest blogger Gina Sampaio.
I never saw a need to buy a share in the local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm. We had our own garden in the yard; a respectable 20’ x [...]