Give a care? Give a share!
I used to love (and be good at) gardening. After too many years of fighting our snails, grasshoppers, javelinas, and earwigs, I finally faced some serious truths and personal limitations. Raising my own food here in northern Arizona is competing with too many other personal interests AND I’m not that great at it.
Add it to the list of things to try again when I am retired.
We love our local Farmers’ Market, but decided this year to take our grocery shopping to another level. We have just finished our first year as happy CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members. Our growers are Cory and Shanti Rade of Whipstone Farm in Paulden Arizona.
Who wouldn’t love showing up once a week to pick up two tote bags full of flowers and veggies, picked just that morning?!
We would like to help other families experience the convenience and deliciousness of locally grown fresh produce by providing a donated share of next year’s Whipstone Farm crop, and are working with Shanti to figure out how best to allocate that share.
Here are some tales of other CSAs who have discovered ways to distribute their excess shares equitably:
Do you participate in your area’s CSA program? Would you like to contribute to another family’s share? I’d love to hear about it.
Speaking of this, here are some related posts from the Loosely Speaking archives:
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Comment // November 2nd, 2009 // 6:48 am
My wife loves to garden and was hoping to garden if we moved to prescott. But she learned of the presence of scorpions and tarantulas in northern arizona and was concerned how much of a problem that would be for her in gardening. How often do you encounter such pesky creatures while gardening in town?
tim
Comment // November 2nd, 2009 // 7:50 am
Tim, I never see scorpions here. I don’t know about Chino Valley, Prescott Valley and Paulden.
They are probably here, but not a problem. I’ll see tarantulas walking down the middle of a road sometimes but have never seen one in my garden area.