Eat This: CSA Q&A at Hideout

By Chuck Sudo in Food on May 11, 2009 9:20PM

Slowly but surely, the concept of Community Sponsored Agriculture is picking up steam for people looking to buy the freshest possible locally grown produce. Irv & Shelly's Fresh Picks is one example. Growing Home, which also provides agricultural job training, is another. I can speak from experience to the benefits of a CSA subscription.

Former Reader staffer Vera Videnovich runs a farm in Bridgman, MI that also sells CSA subscriptions, providing subscribers with a range of vegetables and fruits from May through September. Videnovich and Jody Osmund of Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm in nearby Ottawa will be at Hideout from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday to answer questions about how CSAs work, why the cost of a subscription is better than shopping at a grocery, and to hopefully sign up more subscribers to their respective CSA programs. We're told that if Videnovich and Osmund sign up enough people, Hideout will be included in their drop-off routes.