Benefits of Participating:
CSA programs are a system that connects people who live in urban areas to an environmental and socially responsible source of food from a local farm.
People who join the program receive a weekly or biweekly box of farm-fresh foods conveniently delivered to a neighborhood host site. Each week on delivery day the pick up site becomes a community hub for good food and healthy lifestyles as people stop by to pick up their organic groceries.
The program provides a framework for a relationship that allows consumers and farmers to collaborate efforts in order to ensure and sustain a safe and healthy food source in their community.
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Harmful Effects of Pesticides (source: Nature in the Neighborhood )
Studies link pesticide exposure to cancer, birth defects, stillbirth, infertility, and damage to the brain and nervous system (including Parkinson's disease). Cancers seen in children include: brain cancer, leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and soft tissue sarcoma. (Read More...)
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Neurological Disorders
Many environmental health hazards are neurotoxins. Indeed, most pesticides kill insects and other pests by disrupting the nervous system, and the warning labels that accompany most petroleum-based solvents and solvent-based products (turpentine, Stoddard solvent, gasoline, laquer thinner, etc) . (Read More...)
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Environmental Common
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Our current intensive food systems and associated policies favor big business while directly contradicting communities and local governments promoting food systems that enhance biodiversity, community health, food security, ecosystem health,
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When we shop at the grocery store today, we don't bat an eye at the sight of strawberries in the winter or perfect tomatoes from Holland. In the space of a generation, we've become accustomed to eating food that's never grown roots in local soil.
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| Is Organic Food Really Better for Kids? |
How America's Children Packed on the Pounds. |
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09/21/08
In the 1950s, kids had three cups of milk for every cup of soda. Today that ratio is reversed, meaning they get all the calories and none of the nutrients. (Read More...) ...
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