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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) - Coming Soon
What is a "Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA)?
CSA is a socio-economic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge
support to a farm operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually
consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit in a vegetable box scheme, sometimes including
dairy products and meat.
Across the country,
CSA’s have ”sprouted up” as Americans realize that locally produced food has an array of benefits, including better tasting,
healthier and lower impacting food, keeping money local and supporting farm systems that stem suburban sprawl and provide food
security in the face of negative impacts of globalization.
Folks can support CSA’s in a couple of ways: 1) they can prepay at the
beginning of the season and receive a weekly or monthly supply of produce either delivered to their door or to a central pick up
point, or 2) they can buy produce weekly or bi-weekly at local farmers markets. Some CSA’s let folks come out to the farm and
help pick and manage the farm. Community Gardens work very similarly. These “Loca-vores,” local eaters, are making a huge
contribution to reducing our carbon footprint, selecting and promoting foods that don’t travel thousands of miles, consuming
copious amounts of fossil fuels to get to our plate. If you buy organic, or permaculture-based food, you have traveled a long way
down the road towards sustainability.
Coming Soon...
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Renewable Energy Presentation and Natural Horseman Versatility Workshops
To Register
for the introductory price of $45.00 and speak directly to Natural
Horseman Kevin Clark please call 828-413-0477.
for more information...
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Bioethanol, unlike petroleum, is a form of renewable energy that can be produced from agricultural feedstocks. It can be made from very common crops such as sugar
cane, potato, manioc and maize.
more...
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May, 2010
Ethanol Combustion vs. Gasoline Combustion
Click the image
to watch a video we created comparing how ethanol and gasoline burn.
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