The LocalHarvest Blog

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter.

In April we published an article about Grant Family Farms, one of the biggest CSAs in the country. Our hope was to generate discussion about the nature of the community supported agriculture model. How much and in what directions can CSA stretch without losing its core? What exactly is its core? Should membership size be limited?

A week later we received a thoughtful letter from Kayann Short and John Martin, of Stonebridge Farm. Since 1993, they have run a CSA in Longmont, CO, one of the communities to which Grant Family Farms delivers its CSA shares. We thought their letter was worth printing here, in the hope that it will further the conversation about where CSA is now, and where it might go in the future.

We were pleased that so many of you took time to write a comment to last month's article about local vs. organic via our new "comments feature". You can do the same this month; we welcome your thoughts on the issues Kayann and John raise. As we did last month, we are also adding the comments feature to this month's recipe, so all you cooks and bakers can weigh in on our "Warm Cornmeal Shortcake with Farm Stand Berries".

That recipe comes to us courtesy about a fabulous new cookbook, Eating Local. This month's newsletter includes a review of this photo-rich tour of ten of the country's great CSA farms.

As always, take good care and eat well,
Erin

Erin Barnett
Director
LocalHarvest