Local Yum

Fruit and vegetables were not making their way into our house often enough.

Eventually, I remembered the local organic produce delivery service in Toronto, and it turned out there was similar one here: Door to Door Organics. Hooray!

$25* gets you a box of 4 kinds of fruit and 5 kinds of veggies, including delivery. The produce is seasonal and random, which is nice: seasonal food is tasty, and random food is sometimes a challenge to prepare ("chard... sure, let's see what we can do with this!").

I told my eco-literate friend about the service — and as per usual, he rebutted with something cooler that I had never heard about.

Community-Supported Agriculture depends on local shareholders to raise capital for the upcoming growing season — you buy a share, and you get fresh local produce for the duration of the season. Big M puts it into more interesting terms, saying something along the lines of "money to support urban mad scientists!"

According to PASA's farm locator, I've got two nearby CSAs to choose from:

• Somerton Tanks Farm, and
  
• the super-local to me Greensgrow Farm (makers of Honey from the Hood)
  

Greensgrow also runs a market stand on Thurdsay and Saturday afternoons. Since they're so close (and CSAs don't typically deliver produce), I'm likeliest to buy CSA shares from them when the next growing season starts.

Philadelphians interested in local agriculture can also check out the cooking workshop at Weaver's Way Farm, on Saturday, September 29th.

For the record, no, I'm not a "localvore." I'm not saying you can't eat entirely of local sustenance (and if that's what you want to do, get down with your bad self). I'm just saying, way back when people used to eat strictly local organic produce, and they were often *hungry.*

But supporting the local economy, ensuring I eat my vegetables, and making sure urban mad scientists can do their thing? I'm all about that.


*Yeah, I know that those $25 could be either USD or CAD at the moment.