Comments on: Hooray for CSA! (Day 198)… http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/ making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being too smug about it) Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kassie http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-12179 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:42:44 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-12179 I think CSA is great, and love the idea of getting a selection of local and fresh foods delivered to you weekly. It’s a challenge to use everything that you get in new ways, but I enjoy it. If anyone lives in the Midwest, http://www.macsac.org is a great website for finding local CSAs.

]]> By: Michael http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4721 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:12:55 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4721 Toronto has plenty of CSAs. In fact, I can’t make myself decide which one I should pick. How is Green Earth Organics? Although, I was thinking whether having trucks deliver your produce is even remotely green– as opposed to riding your bike to farmers’ markets. Just a thought.

]]> By: v in boston http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4501 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:29:18 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4501 I love my CSA, and am so happy to hear that more people are learning about them and signing up! I’ve especially liked trying foods that I wouldn’t normally eat and getting better connected to the growing season.

However, it doesn’t look like Green Earth Organics is actually a CSA. It looks like a company that buys organic and local food and delivers it (which is awesome, no question), but when you join a CSA you buy a share of a specific farm. That way you’re supporting a farm and providing them insurance against a bad crop or a huge bumper crop that drives down prices. So they know they’ll still have some income to make ends meet and keep going even if there’s a drought (as there was this August in Boston). You should consider switching over to a CSA if you like the local food box program.

]]> By: Lynn http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4456 Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:34:30 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4456 There’s a few actual CSAs that deliver in Toronto:
Natures Way Organics http://www.natureswayorganics.ca/
Plan B Organics http://www.planborganics.ca/
Thurston Organic Farm http://www.thurstonorganicfarm.com/

And there are some other local food boxes (like Green Earth Organics):
Eat Organics http://www.eatorganics.net/
Front Door Organics http://www.frontdoororganics.com/
Organics Delivered http://www.organicsdelivered.com/
WOW Foods http://www.wowfoods.com/

]]> By: rk http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4447 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:26:12 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4447 CSAs aren’t so new around here–there’s also Plan B Organics. They have a table at the Riverdale Market Tuesday afternoons and one super-cute farmer who mans it. Nothing like the combination of organic food and cute boys.

]]> By: limesarah http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4445 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:33:09 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4445 Ooo, yay! I keep being perplexed by this “box” thing. We have to go to the farm and pick out the veggies ourselves, since our CSA is fairly young. All the vegetables are on a table and there’s a chalkboard saying how much of each to take, plust pick-your-own. It makes for great conversations :-) You’re also lucky to find one that let you join any time! The one we belong to only sells a whole harvest’s worth of shares at once, and sold out before the first harvest day. (Is that unusual? I suppose it might be.) On the other hand, it selling out is a really great sign for the future of local agriculture, and there’s another nearby (though too far for us) that just started up this year.

]]> By: Kim http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4424 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:29:25 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4424 Wow, I’m surpised there are only two in Toronto. There are many in Ottawa, maybe because we’re a smaller city and have more surrounding farms, or maybe there’s just more hippies :-)

Local CSAs
http://www.spcottawa.on.ca/ofsc/en/csa_eaters.asp

Ottawa reference for local eating
http://www.spcottawa.on.ca/ofsc/en/buylocal/buy_local_home.htm

The extra bonus with getting a basket every week is that you get to try new veggies you wouldn’t buy on your own. Our CSA provides recipes each week which is a great introduction to new veggies.

]]> By: nichole http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4422 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:06:33 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4422 I got my first CSA box last week! My roommate and I are doing a small box every other week and I think it’s the perfect amount. Of course we’ve both just gone through break ups so our appetites aren’t quite normal yet..maybe in the future we’ll need to bump it up to every week.

Can’t wait to hear how you like it!

]]> By: Rhett http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4421 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:30:21 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4421 Amy and I have put down a deposit on a CSA share that will start in November, and we honestly can’t wait. It may seem strange, but in South Florida, the big growing season is the winter, as the summers tend to be too consistently hot for growing a lot of things. Getting out CSA share allows us access to purchase other local goods like eggs, honey, and even fish!

I do wonder about the energy spent on door-to-door delivery, though.

]]> By: Shawn http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4420 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:17:49 +0000 http://greenasathistle.com/2007/09/14/hooray-for-csa-day-198/#comment-4420 It’s interesting that you say CSA is an American trend. I’ve been in the USA 7 years now and never seen any sign of that. But we had that back in BC even before I moved away.

When do we get the company that delivers fresh, local, organic PB&Js?! Damnit.

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