Community Supported Agriculture
June 24, 2008
We, here at P’lovers, have started a new venture. We all feel it is important to buy locally, to keep our money close to home. There is a bakery (Hank’s Pastries) and a butcher (Herrington’s) on the main street that we frequent and now we can happily tell you we are purchasing our produce from local farmers. And guess what? They deliver!
There are a total of 7 families here at Queen Street Commons taking part in this exciting community supported agriculture (CSA) project. For 20 weeks throughout the summer and fall, Coopers Farm in Uxbridge delivers us our farm fresh produce every Thursday morning.
We are in week number 2 and so far we have been enjoying an abundance of lettuces, spinach, strawberries, rhubarb, green onions and garlic and are looking forward to much more. The bushel baskets arrive smelling and tasting like the great outdoors and all we have to do is cart it to our homes and refrigerate.
To arrive home after a full day and throw a salad together that we know has come from our community farmers just makes it taste better.
The baskets are filled with whatever produce is plentiful at that time of the season. We are happy to know we are getting the season’s best, freshest goodies.
-Jude
Entry Filed under: Be the Change, Building Community. Tags: Community Supported Agriculture, CSA, farmer, fruit, produce, sustainable living, vegetable.
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Richard Gauder | July 7, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I have heard of this for years, but didn’t know it existed here in the Port Perry area…ugh! Oh well next year. Although it was fun picking non pesticide strawberries just south of Port Perry there’s something to be said about home delivery! http://www.Swainbeef.ca does that, though Herringtons is only a 3 minute walk from home, so it’s walk and shop…the better way:).