CSA

Andy and I have decided to join a CSA this year. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture and works on the idea that individuals can buy a "share" of a farm for a given period of time. Basically, you pay X amount to the farm at the start of the year and get X amount (one share) of what they produce. Different farms have different numbers of shares, different seasons, different crops, etc. There are plenty of CSA choices in Portland, some offering only vegetables, some for meat, cheeses, flowers, even one for honey. All fresh, all local. I chose a fairly large farm that some of our friends recommended from last year. It's one of the few that I found that grow both veggies and fruit. For 18 weeks this summer/fall we'll pick up pounds of produce every Thursday. We've pledged to eat ALL of it. I'm stoked.

You can read about our CSA here.

For all our other farmers' market needs there's always Saturday's market in the Park Blocks. I'm pretty stoked about that too.