COMMUNITY SUPPORTED agriCULTURE!

Good people,

I am in San Francisco, getting prepared for our show in May.

And someone asked me if there are CSAs, Community Supported Agriculture, here in California.

For those of you that don't know, there's a definition below.

And if you need to know where a CSA is near you, I found this site, from the Good People of Local Harvest.



Eat slow and with some friends tonight!

In solidarity,
Mero Cocinero

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a relatively new socio-economic model of food production, sales, and distribution aimed at both increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. It is also a method for small-scale commercial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and even milk or meat products in some cases. A variety of similar production and economic sub-systems are in use worldwide: