WHAT IS COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE?

The CSA is the process that reconnects the community with the farmers within our community. It brings the farms closer to our homes.

Joining Butler Green Farms CSA allows you and your family to become members of the farm. We provide Bainbridge Island with the quintessential farming scene: produce in rows, animals in the pasture and tractors in the field. We invite you to visit the farm and see for yourself what is growing. Your participation allows farmers to continue as important characters on our island.

The CSA allows you to get to know the farmer that grows your food and where our food comes from. On average, the food we eat travels 1500 miles to reach our dinner table. In order to make this trip, conventional produce is treated with fungicides and other chemicals to deal with the stress. The CSA program allows us the opportunity to support local agricultural so that we are guaranteed the freshest and healthiest produce available.

Another important reason for us to get involved in Community Support Agriculture is that small, local family farms are being squeezed out of our community. Farmland is being sold for development because some feel that this land is more valuable with houses and pavement rather than growing local food-which it had been doing for many years. Once you loose farmland you can not get it back.This unfortunately comes at a time when the costs associated with farming is increasing rapidly and small family farms can no longer afford to operate without the support from the community; that same community that understands that having a supply of local food is important to us.

 As an Organic farmer for over thirty years I enjoy and am committed in growing fresh produce for our community. Our CSA program is a partnership between our farm and our community in which we live. Because of this community support we are able to keep farming.

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