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C. S. A.

CSA involves prepaying a local farmer to get weekly deliveries of fresh produce, and we just started with a local farm, Riverdog Farm. Each week, we get a full box of whatever is in season delivered to a location near us. In the last two weeks, we have gotten turnips, kale, chard, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, […]

Pollan

“In nature health is the default. Most of the time pests and disease are just nature’s way of telling the farmer he’s doing something wrong.” – The Omnivore’s Dilemma. This makes perfect sense to me. So when (and why) did humans switch from living in cooperation with nature to attempting to dominate and control it?