Slowly the sustainable table or Slow Food movement is moving towards us in Milton, Georgia. Not that it didn't originally begin here sort of, as in slow food, but that's another story. It's all about getting back to basics, words for these economic times.
In any case, this CSA organization looks like something to certainly check out!
A few benefits of participating: CSA programs are a system that connects people who live in urban areas to an environmental and socially responsible source of food from a local farm. People who join the program receive a weekly or biweekly box of farm-fresh foods conveniently delivered to a neighborhood host site. Each week on delivery day the pick up site becomes a community hub for good food and healthy lifestyles as people stop by to pick up their organic groceries. The program provides a framework for a relationship that allows consumers and farmers to collaborate efforts in order to ensure and sustain a safe and healthy food source in their community.
I will fill you in on a little secret but, shhhhh....
I know someone who is putting together a 100% organic farm right here in Milton, Georgia with classes and outreach programs and all kinds of great opportunities and will hopefully open in the next six to nine months. It's taken many years to even get this far because of the strictest Federal requirements, State of Georgia and other regulatory issues. As soon as I hear more, I'll let you know. Our own backyard CSA!! This is groovy!
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