Above Photograph Information - Spring 2010 Top Left: Scattergood Friends School eating with the Dunham family in the GHF greenhouse. 2010 Full & Winter CSA Shares Available - Spring Share Sold Out! Grinnell Heritage Farm - Field Days CSA Shareholders and community members are welcome to join us on the farm every second Saturday from 3-6 pm (May-October) for a Farm Field Day. There are different topics for each session and each session is concluded with a potluck. So bring your gardening gloves, favorite local dish, dinner ware and utensils and come experience life at GHF!
WHY EAT LOCALLY?
Center: Little Emma turned one and was given the gift of pureed vegetables. Yum!
Right: One of the newest additions to our farm, welcome to the farm little fella!
Sign up now to become a 2010 CSA Shareholder. Full Share starts in June! We deliver to Grinnell, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Des Moines. How do you sign up? All you need to do is fill out the registration form and mail it with payment to the farm. We will contact you the week before the share starts with additional information.
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