Since June 2015, Silas and I have had the pleasure of indulging in community-supported agriculture (CSA) foods. Prior to that, I was not familiar with the idea. In a CSA, the consumer’s funds go directly into the farmer’s cost to run and maintain the farm, which is usually a smaller scale operation. Because risks such as bad weather are shared between farmer and consumer, the farmer is less reliant on banks and loans and can instead devote more effort in producing quality goods. In return, the consumer gets produce that is ultra-fresh and in-season. Furthermore, because the farms are local (in our case, within 350 miles of NYC), less cost and waste goes into food distribution. It’s an economically and environmentally sustainable model! Continue reading Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Welcome to Our New and Improved Website!
THIS is the inaugural post to our new website.
Silas and I have maintained our own hand-coded websites since 2008 (under the present domain) using old-fashioned HTML. We later added little features of PHP and also simplified our albums using various code generators. While our former site shared important features of our lives, we found it cumbersome to update and – as a result – we did not do so as often as we would like. Continue reading Welcome to Our New and Improved Website!
