Community Supported Agriculture

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I just found out about CSAs or community supported agriculture from videos on

Youtube. You pay weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or several months in advance

depending on the seller, and the fruits and vegetables are shipped directly to

your door or a close drop off location. This is an excellent way to support

local organic agriculture and reduce the distances that food is shipped. The

prices seem reasonable. The website “localharvest.org†is a listing of many

farms and shops selling fruits, vegetables, honey, and environmentally safe

clothing, bodycare products, etc. You can type in your zip code and get a list

of the farms and sellers within whatever distance you plug in. The farm that I

decided on is “farmfreshtoyou.comâ€. I live in the SF Bay Area. The farm is

about 100 miles from my residence, and they deliver directly to the customer’s

door. Gardening, local farming, foraging, fishing, hunting are the answers to

the gigantic agricultural problem this country has always had. The agricultural

system is possibly a bigger threat to the environment than global warming

because of soil depletion, pesticide use, fertilizers, water depletion, etc.

The workers are some of the most exploited in any industry, the animals are

raised in tortuous conditions, and the food produced is not healthy. But

everybody thinks our agricultural system is the breadbasket to the world because

that’s all we’re ever told from the mainstream, business propaganda media.

The media is owned and controlled by the private industries causing the

problems, so why would they advertise their crimes? Wouldn’t make business

sense. The business co-opted government isn’t going to do anything about the

problems, so we need to seek alternatives.