1. Health and nutrition: our produce is naturally grown, without any chemicals. It is picked when ripe, at its maximal nutritional value, and it reaches you in less than 24 hours after harvest, so the nutrients haven’t had time to leach away.
2. Environmental health: the farms we work with use sustainable farming methods that foster a healthy farming ecosystem with a rich biodiversity, and they use less water than conventional agriculture or urban developments.
3. Farm crew health: farm crews are not exposed to chemicals; they benefit from year-round employment, fair wages, medical insurance and healthy working and living conditions.
4. Supporting local farming: local family farms are vanishing from our landscapes. If we don’t support them, they will disappear to make room for more urban sprawl.
5. Creative cooking: enjoy cooking healthy meals with a great diversity of seasonal produce. Our farms grows over 200 different types of fruits and vegetables throughout the year. Your refrigerator is always stocked with fresh food and you spend less time planning your meals.
6. Saving fossil fuel: it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel to produce one calorie of food in the average American diet; typical grocery store produce, even organic, travels an average of 1,500 miles from farm to table, or over 40 times the distance to our nearest farm.
7. Connecting with your food: know who grows it, how it is grown and where it is grown. Learn the history and traditions of each vegetable you eat.
8. Less expensive than store-bought organic produce. You also go shopping less frequently and are less inclined to buy processed and pre-packaged foods.
9. Living more sustainably. As a CSA member, you take a PERSONAL and DIRECT step in addressing the flaws of our global food system. By paying attention to what you eat, you participate in a more environmentally and socially sustainable way of life in a direct and rewarding way. It’s a WIN-WIN situation.
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