Community
Supported Agriculture
How
we eat determines to a considerable extent how the world is used.
-Wendell Berry
We
at Crystal Spring support the small scale local agriculture on
which rural New England was historically based, as well as steps
toward an ecologically sustainable and socially just food supply.
A
community supported garden brings together community members,
the farmer, and the land in a relationship of mutual support based
on a long term commitment to one another. The
standards for a community garden require respect and affection
for the land and for other species. And the garden in its
seasonal changes provides the learning context for living in harmony
with the Earth.
Since 2004, we have joined our efforts with Heirloom
Harvest Farm in Westboro. Heirloom Harvest grows more than forty
different kinds of vegetables. You'll be familiar with the majority
of the produce, vegetables you have been cooking and eating most
of your life. The quality and flavor of heirloom and regional
varieties will be a new experience.
The
harvest is planned in part as an educational initiative to challenge
shareholders to broaden their nutritional choices by introducing
ethnic, regional and heirloom vegetables that modern industrial
agriculture and the global food distribution system would not
or cannot present as choices to American consumers.
Sign up for the 2007 season! A weekly newsletter with great recipes and news accompanies each week's share. Organic, free-range chicken and egg shares are also available,
as well as fruit shares from a local orchard from late August
into November. And try some fresh baked bread from Crystal Spring. Shares
can be picked up on Tuesday of each week at Crystal Spring between
3 and 7 pm from early June to mid-November.
Cost of a share for 2007 is $600 plus delivery to Crystal Spring charge of $25. The early sign-up discount is $50. To
learn more, or download the 2007 enrollment form, go to the farm's web site at www.heirloomharvestcsa.com or call Carole Rossi at
508 699-7167.
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