Third Thursday @ Your Library - Community Supported Agriculture April 17, 2008

Are you interested in organic food? Are you concerned about the food you see in the grocery store, and do you ever wonder what it might contain and where it might have come from? If your answer is 'yes' to either of these questions, attend a free program on Community Supported Agriculture on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland Street. The program is free of charge and presented as part of the Third Thursday @ Your Library program.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production. CSA is a new idea in farming, one that has been gaining momentum since its introduction to the United States from Europe in the mid-1980s. CSA farms in the U.S. currently number more than 400. Most are located near urban centers in New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, and the Great Lakes region, with growing numbers in other areas, including the West Coast.
In the librarys program Charles and Miriam Maloney, who have run a successful CSA operation on their Day Spring Farm for many years will talk about how you can make a direct connection with a local farm and its produce by getting involved in the production and harvesting of crops.

Williamsburg Regional Library's Adult Services Division organizes the ongoing Third Thursdays @ Your Library series, featuring subjects of local interest, author talks, hobbies and pastimes. The programs take place monthly at the Williamsburg Library. Call the Adult Services Division at (757) 259-4050 for more information.

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