How do you become a Massaro Farm CSA member?
Visit our Massaro Farm CSA web site!!!!!!!!! [Summer 2011 shares are sold out]
What is a CSA?
Community-Supported Agriculture or CSA, has become a very popular food system network over the past 20 years in America and allows for individuals to buy local, seasonal foods directly from the farmer. By buying “shares” of the farm, the consumer participates in the farming life by sharing the risk as well as the food with other members and receives a box of seasonal farm goods each week throughout the season.
The website Local Harvest does a great job at explaining the concept, read on for more info: www.localharvest.org
More CSA Info
Read “In Search of Local Produce” from the New York Times, June 22, 2008
Listen to “No Room at the Farm,” from WHSU, a story about runaway demand for locally raised foods in Connecticut
Read “Cutting Out the Middlemen, Shoppers Buy Slices of Farms” in the New York Times, July 10, 2008
Local CSAs
Massaro Farm CSA, in Woodbridge, CT
Holcomb Farm CSA, in West Granby, CT
Gazy Brothers Farm, in Oxford, CT
Other Helpful Sites
The Eating Well Guide, find local, sustainable, places to eat well
