WOULD YOU LIKE TO BETTER KNOW YOUR FARMERS? 2010 CSA SHARE BROCHURES NOW AVAILABLE! WHY EAT LOCALLY?
Do you want to learn more about CSA? Do you have friends, neighbors or family that would like to spend an evening eating great food and talking about sustainable agriculture? Then a "Meet the Farmer" is just for you!
Schedule your "Meet the Farmer" today! Call the farm at 641-236-4374 or email us at GrinnellHeritageFarm@gmail.com.
Sign up now to become a 2010 CSA shareholder. All you need to do is fill out the registration form and mail it with payment to the farm. We will email you with a confirmation of your registration. Click here for our 2010 CSA Brochure.
The local foods movement has seen increasing support in the past few years. With the economic downturn, here are a few thoughts as to why that support should continue.
QUALITY
Local foods are often of a higher quality than their industrially-produced counterparts. Heirloom and delicate varieties can be grown locally because they can be handled appropriately by local producers. Food can be grown for flavor instead of shelf-life.
FRESHNESS
Local foods spend less time in transport and on the shelf. Lettuce purchased at the grocery store from
Pound-for-pound and vitamin-for-vitamin, local foods are price-competitive with grocery store prices. If you are buying conventionally-grown, sprayed romaine lettuce in the grocery store for $1.99 per head when you could buy organically-grown, locally-produced romaine for $2.00 are you really getting a deal?
When you buy local food the farmer receives the whole food dollar. Middlemen and retailers are the main beneficiaries in our corporate food industry. What percentage of that money stays in our communities?
When you purchase food in the grocery store you don’t know where it has come from or who grew it. Knowing who produces your food, that they are doing so in a healthy and sustainable way, and that it is truly is safe to eat is very important.
Michael Pollan said it best in his article published in the New York Times Magazine. The link below is well worth reading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/magazine/12policy-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine