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Community-supported agriculture programs offer locally grown food to subscribers in Western Montana each week

Western Montana’s CSAs want bountiful harvests this year and some are working on growing their client base, too.

Starting this month, most are sending out brochures and signing up subscribers for their community-supported agriculture programs, called CSAs. Enrollment continues until the "shares" are all sold.

CSAs work like this: People buy into the program in the spring; the farms’ workers and volunteers plant, tend and harvest the crops; and the CSA subscribers pick up their "share" of the harvest each week during the peak growing seasons, usually 18 to 20 weeks from May to October.
Proponents list many benefits of such programs, including the support of local farmers, knowing where your food is grown, and the better taste and health bonus of organically grown, freshly picked, in-season food.

Subscribing to a CSA also introduces culinary experimentation.

By MEA ANDREWS of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/03/19/news/local/news02.txt

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