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From YouTube: Eating Smart - Community Support Agriculture (CSA)

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Community Supported Agriculture - Learn how you can purchase a CSA share. Shares include fresh vegetables, fruit, flowers, etc. Everything you need for a healthy meal.

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I'm Marjorie Vestal with a healthy buncombe eat. Smart move more coalition here today to tell you about an easy way. You can have fresh produce, deliver to your workplace with community supported agriculture, community supported agriculture or csas, offer farm fresh, local produce and many are willing to deliver to your workplace or a convenient central location. This makes eating fresh local produce even easier for busy working folks, and it can also add a boost to our local economy by patronizing. Our local farmers.

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Essentially, a CSA is a subscription to a local farm customers sign up for shared during the winter and get a weekly shipment of fresh produce during the spring summer and fall CSA is very in what they offer. Some have more vegetables. Some include fruit, some even include flowers. A CSA box typically contains enough food for a family of four to eat for a week or three or four working adults. A csa share ranges from four to five hundred dollars, depending on the number of weeks it covers, and it's typically paid upfront during the winter.

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You might be wondering who offers the SAS there are 24 farms offering csas, including in the Appalachian sustainable agriculture, 2008 food guides for a complete list check out their website at www agency. Org.

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Coordinating a group of co-workers at your workplace is a great way to make new friends and save time on food shopping. Many work sites have a wellness committee that can help to coordinate a healthy eating program.

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Let's visit van huichol law firm in Asheville and talk with them about their csa at the worksite program, you might be able to get fresh local produce, delivered right to your worksite, we're here at van winkle law, firm in downtown Asheville with Katie Craig, who works here: hey, hey, t, hey and Mike fortune, who is a local farmer who delivers produce to Van Winkle law firm every week during the growing season.

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This program is called community supported agriculture or si si so hey y'all, how's it going great. What's in this week's delivery, Mike well.

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This week we have some traditional southern collards. We have some heirloom broccolis, we have a White Russian kale and some rainbow chard nice.

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Looks good so Katie you work here and you're kind of helping to coordinate. This is the first time you've ever had produce delivered so how's it going for you so far.

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So good we started getting deliveries in late April and we should get them through October and we're all really excited about them. Uh-Huh.

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Great, so how many employees do you have participating in the program we have about 12.

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Employees who are divvying up the two to three pounds of produce that we get per week, uh-huh.

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And you also exchange cooking tips, recipes that sort of thing we.

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Do I get some recipes for us off the internet and then we also get some recipes from healthy, buncombe uh-huh.

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And do you have a favorite something that's been delivered to you? What's been your favorite, so.

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Far the season, the rainbow chard, has been the most popular for both its color and its flavor uh-huh nice.

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So Mike you grow this stuff. Yes,.

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We do yeah, we have two farms right now that we're working with where this is coming from. The rainbow chard is grown in west asheville inside the city limits of asheville at my urban farm and the other is grown on a 70 year old tobacco farm that we're transitioning and it's in barnardsville and transitioning.

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From growing tobacco yep.

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Best, organic vegetables: it's been four years out of the tobacco and we I'm the first farmer, given the opportunity to work with them, so I'm pretty excited. What's.

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Great and you grow it organically. Yes,.

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We do and all these are heirloom varieties and you know non-genetically modified organisms. That's.

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Great, so how many work sites do you have a downtown Asheville participating in the CSA program? We're.

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Delivering to for businesses and we deliver or have delivered to practically most of your favorite restaurants throughout Asheville, wondering.

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How to get started start looking for a CSA by talking to friends who are in one call in farms and browsing the farms website find out what they grow, how the food is grown organically or conventionally, where they locate it. Do they deliver check in with your work, site manager or wellness coordinator, to see if it's possible, to have fresh local produce delivered straight to your workplace? Community supported agriculture helps the local farmer and the consumer.

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The farmers assured of a reliable market for produce grown consumers are assured that it's grown fresh and nearby having a direct relationship with people who grow your food is good for everyone. You can find out more about community supported agriculture at the Appalachian sustainable agriculture project at a 28 to 36, 1282 or check out their website.

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Wwa SAP connections, org North Carolina has a wonderful website full of resources, including a guide to help you bring fresh produce to your setting, check it out at WWE. Cm art move more NC com for more information about worksite, wellness tips, contact healthy buncombe, your eat, smart move, more coalition at our website, wwl-tv Bunco, morgue,.