My CSA and What Do You Do with Kale Anyway?!
A few months ago I read about a Community Supported Agriculture program or a CSA, and I was intrigued. If you were like me and had never heard of them before, I will give you the low down. A CSA is a partnership between you and a local farm, where you sign up to buy a weekly amount of food from them and they deliver it to a location close to you for pickup. They harvest whatever is in season that week, and you receive enough fresh vegetables and fruit to feed a small or large family, depending on the share size you purchased. I searched for CSAs local to Pittsburgh, and found a website that was very comprehensive on about.com . I read through a couple of websites and found the Dillner Family Farm located in Gibsonia, PA. The Dillner Family Farm sells produce at several farmer's markets in the area on a weekly basis, and for their CSA, they just happen to bring the farmer's market to me by delivering to two Mt. Lebanon locations within a ten minute ...