{"id":109,"date":"2006-06-07T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/get-involved-in-community-supported-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:32:32","slug":"get-involved-in-community-supported-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/sustainability\/get-involved-in-community-supported-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Get involved in Community Supported Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Community-supported_agriculture\">Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)<\/a>, it&#8217;s definitely something worth familiarizing yourself with.  A CSA is basically where you pay a set amount to a local farm, and you then theoretically become a stake holder in the farm&#8217;s operations.  In return you get a portion of the farm&#8217;s harvest each week or every two weeks.  Here in San Diego I&#8217;m a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bewiseranch.com\/\">Be Wise Ranch<\/a>, and I pay <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">$20<\/span> (updated 2008) $25 for a box of organic produce every two weeks.  It&#8217;s the small box, but it&#8217;s plenty for me for actually more than the 2 weeks.  The farm delivers to a pick up location each week, and it&#8217;s up to you to go retrieve your goodies. Each day of the week are different locations, so all of the country ends up getting a chance to have it delivered to their area.<\/p>\n<p>Someone introduced me to them, and it&#8217;s been great.  So if you&#8217;re in San Diego, check them out, if not find one in your own city!  Support local organic!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update 2010:<\/b> I&#8217;ve been getting great organic, local product through the Be Wise CSA for over 5 years, and I love it! I feel like an older timer, and now I&#8217;m pretty sure all locations are full with waiting lists! I am so happy that people are finally becoming aware and conscious when it comes to food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), it&#8217;s definitely something worth familiarizing yourself with.  A CSA is basically where you pay a set amount to a local farm, and you then theoretically become a stake holder in the farm&#8217;s operations.  In return you get a portion of the farm&#8217;s harvest each week or every two weeks.  Here in San Diego I&#8217;m a member of Be Wise Ranch, and I pay $20 (updated 2008) $25 for a box of organic produce every two weeks.  It&#8217;s the small box, but it&#8217;s plenty for me for actually more than the 2 weeks.  The farm delivers to a pick up location each week, and it&#8217;s up to you to go retrieve your goodies. Each day of the week are different locations, so all of the country ends up getting a chance to have it delivered to their [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/sustainability\/get-involved-in-community-supported-agriculture\/\" style=\"font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><br \/>[<span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:.9em;\">links and styling have been removed in the excerpt, read more to see complete content<\/span>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[104,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idealistcafe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}