I have done it before, and with Charlie's urging I have made the leap once again into the lovely world of the CSA. What is a CSA you ask, well let me tell you. It stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Basically, how it works is a group of people come together and pledge their support ($$) to a local farm. That farm in return supplies a weekly box of produce (sometimes including meat dairy eggs and/or flowers).

The idea of having this sort of food system started in the 1960's in Germany, Switzerland and Japan. The concept didn't find it's way to the United States until 1984! Since then community supported farms have been organized throughout North America and Canada. In fact, North America alone has at least 13,000 CSA farms.

The best part, CSAs generally focus on the production of high quality, seasonal food, often organic and/or biodynamic. And it is all straight from the farmer!

Last time we were with Full Belly Farm. This time after searching through the many CSAs on Local Harvest, we have decided to go with Terra Firma Farms. Terra Firma is just west of Winters on the edge of the Sacramento Valley. The farm supports 42 employees and feeds over 700 people weekly. The farm is 100% organic and... beautiful.

Charlie and I are pretty big vegetable consumers, so we decided on the medium box for the two of us. So, that comes to $98 for a whole month of fresh, organic, seasonal produce delivered just down the road. Not so bad.

We received our first box, and it looks delicious!



All fresh, all organic. This mornings breakfast included the cabbage and the kale and I am here to testify, that it was mucho delicioso!