Here is our wonderful experience with the quality and freshness of community supported agriculture.
About a year ago we were visiting friends in Santa Cruz. While there, they picked up this box full of an amazing selection of fresh, local grown vegetables which they received thru Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA is an organization of farmers promoting a model of growing and eating that creates a direct connection between you and the farm. We were thrilled to find a farm (Mountain Bounty Farm) in Nevada City that delivers produce to Truckee and immediately signed up. We pay up front for the season (summer or winter). They use the money to buy the seeds and grow the produce, when it is time to harvest the pick what is ready to eat each week and deliver it the day it’s picked. For about $25 a week we get a box full of the freshest, tastiest produce and enjoy a variety of produce based on what they planted and what is ready to harvest. Last fall we went to the farm for their fall harvest festival and had a tour of this small farm (about 4 acres) where our veggies our grown. To see the produce growing and meet the farmers in person was a beautiful circle true to the CSA model.
