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USU study finds benefits to community-supported agriculture
HJNews.com
by Kevin Opsahl
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Source: Kayann Short |
NORTH LOGAN — Maren Wendel, of Providence, just moved from Idaho Falls to Cache Valley recently and did not have time to plant a vegetable garden for the summer.
Then she and her husband found out about community-supported agriculture programs, or CSAs — a partnership between farms and the public, where customers pay the farmer in exchange for shares of the produce every week. Asked about her family’s involvement in a CSA program at the USU Student Organic Farm in North Logan on Tuesday, Wendel said it has changed the way her four kids eat.
“Especially in the first couple of weeks, they were really excited to eat salad,” Wendel said, showing off the bag of beets, radishes, kale and lettuce she picked up from the student farm. “This makes them excited to try more things.”
