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Newsletter of New Hampshire CSA
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Greetings!
As of the fall of 2010 we have been working on the Feast on Fresh Organics delivery service. We are currently delivering to homes and businesses in Greater Manchester.
It's not too late to get into this service, but act now if interested. Deadline is Nov. 18th for December deliveries.
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So far in November some of the 8 items per week:
avocados, green beans, salad greens, watermelon radishes, celeriac, cucumbers,
turnips, sweet potatoes, carrots it goes on...
see the site here for more
Field to Fork free range certified organic eggs and Abigail's Breads are still available too.
We hope to expand this service to include many more organic items, but let's see how the initial phase works out.
We would also like to thank Victory Garden Man for last months' helpful storage tips.
ORGANIC BREAD
We have bread from Abigails's Bakery in Weare. We have been test marketing this great bread in the hope members will enjoy it as much as we do. We have whole wheat, white, anadama, gluten free, cinnamon raisin swirl, brown rice, and 8 grain.
HORSE DRAWN HAY & SLEIGH RIDES!
If you would like to go on a fall horse drawn hayride or snowy winter sleigh ride bundled under blankets let us know. Spring Hill Farm will be giving them out to raise funds for the Spring Hill Trust!
PUMPKINS
If you have been to the Keene Pumpkin Festival you know how big and fun it is. Tens of thousands of pumpkins everywhere and that many people too by the looks of it. We took the ride with some friends and brought one of the little sugar pumpkins our daughter carved as our donation to help them attempt to get into the Guinness Book of World Records.
Stay tuned.
Like to use facebook? Check us out and friend NHCSA. Post your recipes and comments too.
The website home page has new links added including to one of our members The Victory Garden Man and he has great advice for home canning and storage of your produce. Another is for Milk delivery in glass bottles at NHMILK.
Here is Gary's cell phone if you have questions 603 548 5550.
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Donated Share Winners!
Congratulations to Tara DeTore of Chester. Tara entered a raffle at the Chester Town Fair in September to benefit the Spring Hill Farm Trust. We donated 2011 Full Share in the NHCSA as a prize. We look forward to meeting Tara this June 17th.
Another winner is Senator Bob Letourneau of Derry. Senator Letourneau won his full share at the Derry-Londonderry Chamber of Commerce annual dinner held at Promise to Keep in Derry last month.
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Vote at the check out
by Fran Van Geyte
 Prior to the 1950's in the USA food was grown by people without the use of synthetic pesticides. In that relatively short period time since the use of pesticides, the consequences are an entire life cycle contaminated with them. It now begins in the womb where metabolites of common and poisonous pesticides are found in a newborns stool and in fetal cord blood. Infants are bathed in pesticides prior to birth during critical developmental periods and it continues as they nurse from their mothers and the food that they eat. Exposures are widespread beyond the infancy period. Rainwater has been reported to exceed the safe drinking-water standards with contamination of pesticides such as atrazine, alachlot and broad-leaf pesticides. The use of agricultural chemicals known to cause cancer in California increased by over 120% in less then 10 years. Farm workers have ~60-70% greater risk in cancer. Since the adoption of genetically modified crops we have observed a 122 million pound increase in pesticide use in the US.
The claim that some pesticides are safer has not been fully substantiated. Research shows that they point to different heath effects with different latency periods; neurotoxic effects, reproductive dysfunction, and cancer. During this same time the nature of farming has separated itself from natural norms to an agricultural model. Our food industry has shifted from a promotion and consumption of foods grown locally to foods highly processed and packaged and transported over long distances. We are now experiencing the consequences of these processes: water and air pollution, an epidemic of obesity, antibiotic resistance, wastes from animal factory runoff (according to the EPA, hormones,antibiotics, arsenic) have polluted 35000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated the groundwater in 17 states. A reported 70% of the over 8 billion broiler chickens produced per year are fed arsenic. What we may not fully realize however is how much of a difference we can make. We influence the current state of affairs with every dollar we spend.,We vote every day. When we support farms with grass fed animals versus corn feed factories where animals are kept in overcrowded lots and fed antibiotics and a corn based diet, we are having a direct impact on our food system. Although there may be large immediate financial gains when the laws of nature are ignored the consequences are teaching us every day that cheap food actually is quite costly to our health and environment. When purchasing eggs or meat from your local organic farmer, if the only comparison is the immediate dollar for dollar cost well the factory eggs appears at first glance to be a bargain. But this is an illusion From a health cost to you, your family and the environment these eggs are very different and are similar in appearance only; its comparing apples to oranges and the cheap food is no bargain.
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Ever get home and forget what that new vegetable is,
check out our veggie ID chart here.
Thank you to all the membership, we look forward to seeing our returning members and meeting all the new ones.
Enjoy and Eat Well.
Warm regards,
Gary and the crew
NHCSA
603 548 5550
The NHCSA is a multi-farm CSA. We have created an alliance with accomplished growers who are either certified organic or growing organically. By supporting us, you're helping to sustain multiple small farm growers in their quest to provide quality produce.Together, we'll provide you with a colorful array of vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers that are fresh-picked and grown without contaminants.
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