More CSA Information and Resources

Books to read

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded

Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A National History of Four Meals

Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes Mined) and Manipulated Into What America Eats

Documentaries worth checking out

King Corn – two friends plant a single acre of corn and track their crop through the US food supply

The Future of Food – documentary on the relationship between agriculture, big business, and government

Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison? - a film that examines the pros and cons of genetically modified foods

Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food – another documentary looking at genectically modified foods

The Real Dirt on Farmer John – about one the largest organic farms in the US

Fridays at the Farm – a personal journey about a man who transforms from consumer to grower and his CSA supported farm

Websites to visit

http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml

www.JustFood.org

http://www.biodynamics.com/csa.html