Relating to CSA farms, CSA farmers, subscribing to and using CSA farm shares, and other topics pertaining to community supported agriculture
In this post, we honor two remarkable women who shaped the world of food around them: Portland-based cooking teacher and Slow Food USA leader Katherine Deumling, and Deborah DeBord, a visually impaired home cook and CSA advocate who wrote for this blog in 2019–2020.
In this post, we honor two remarkable women who shaped the world of food around them: Portland-based cooking teacher and Slow Food USA leader Katherine Deumling, and Deborah DeBord, a visually impaired home cook and CSA advocate who wrote for this blog in 2019–2020.
We’re looking forward to 2021 with these tips for eating healthier with a CSA box from your local farm with a tumultuous year behind us. As with so much of our daily lives, the coronavirus pandemic has given new meaning to eating healthier.
This is the second of a special three-part series by Martha Wagner and Mi Ae Lipe about how COVID-19 is transforming local food systems—farmers markets, local farms, and community and backyard gardens. ____________________ As we all know, no part of our lives has been...
Welcome to Spring! After a long, hard winter, it's truly a relief to feel warmth seeping into earth's bones and emerging as life irrepressible once again. With spring's resurrection of a lush growing season ahead for most of the country, I'm happy to announce renewed...
It's that time again—when spring is just around the corner and with it the luscious, long-awaited promise of fresh greens, succulent veggies, and aromatic herbs to break the long winter months of root vegetables and squash. And right now community-supported...
Put 40-plus farmers in a cavernous old industrial building along with displays of their farm goods—from honey and salami to fresh produce—then add a few chickens and piglets, local chefs doing cooking demos, and a cookbook swap, and what do you get? The second annual...
We love sharing stories and photos from CSA (community-supported agriculture) farms across the country, but we know that CSAs are not for everyone. A CSA share is probably not a good fit for you if you don’t have time to cook, don’t enjoy cooking, or are a serious...