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Food InSites
Unique Perspectives On the Food We Love.
Discover some special insights about food, directly from your friends at the Small Family CSA Farm. Jillian, Adam, Julie, Drew and Momma Jane are here to share their unique experiences with you to help you stay happy, healthy and informed. Feel free to comment. By the way, you can also start your own discussions in our CSA Community Forum.
Want to learn more about the food you eat? Click on some of our favorite 'foodie' links below.
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"MACSAC or Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition works to build a sustainable, just and local food system in  Southen Wisconsin by supporting and promoting Community Supported Agriculture Farms." ~macsac.org
MACSAC is able to offer an Insurance Provider Rebate Program to CSA members who are insured by Physician's Plus, Group Health, and Dean Health in Madison and Fransiscan Skemp Heath Clinic in the La Crosse, WI and surrounding area. People who are insured by these companies are elible to receive a rebate for part of the cost of their CSA share thru the partnership between MACSAC and the Insurance companies. MACSAC is always looking for new insurance companies who are interested in partnering with them and offering rebates to health-conscious consumers.
MACSAC also offers a Partners Shares Program that raises money for an Assistance Fund which is used to help pay for the cost of CSA shares for low-income families. The Partner Shares Program generates money for the Assistance Fund through local fundraising events, grants, and donations from individuals, organizations and foundations.
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Country Food from Near and Far(m)
This site was created by a friend of mine, Sofya Hundt. She's a local woman that is a housewife / domestic goddess. She moved to Wisconsin from Azerbaijan, which was once the capitol of the Soviet Rebublic, and fell in love with a man from Viroqua and now lives and rises her family on a farm near ours. I wish I would have been born her daughter (no offense momma Jane) and been fed at her table. This woman is cookin' it up right! Read her food blogs, look at her pictures and leave her comments. Heck, pick up the phone and call her. She's who I turn to when recipe ideas come scarce. Her and her family raise a garden, chickens for eggs and grass-fed angus beef. Rich Food for Lean Times is her brain child. |
The Pioneer Woman is a city girl gone country and who has fallen in love with every moment of it, well, at least almost every moment. She's an amimated housewife that knows how to cook, homeschool, photograph, and document every step of all of it. She's got a blog and I just really like her. That's about all there is to it really, and I wanted to share it with you. Love the recipe section!!! |
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The Land Stewardship Project |
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"The Land Stewardship Project is a private, non profit organization based out of Minneapolis, MN. Their mission is to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities." ~landstewardshipproject.org
Check in with them to receive Action Alerts on what's happening in legal world of agricultural reform. |
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Very important STUFF to share with your friends.
"From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever." ~storyofstuff.com |
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The Cornucopia Institute promotes economic justice for family scale farmers
"Seeking economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development our goal is to empower farmers - partnered with consumers - in support of ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food." ~cornucopia.org
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I believe a man’s greatest possession is his dignity and that no calling bestows this more abundantly than farming.
I believe hard work and honest sweat are the building blocks of a person’s character.
I believe that farming, despite it’s hardships and disappointments, is the most honest and honorable way a man can spend his days on this earth.
I believe that farming nurtures the close family ties that make life rich in ways that money can’t buy.
I believe my children are learning values that will last a lifetime and can be learned in no other way.
I believe farming provides education for life and that no other occupation teaches so much about birth, growth and maturity in such a variety of ways.
I believe many of the best things in life are indeed free: the splendor of a sunrise, the rapture of wide open spaces, the exhilarating sight of your land greening each spring.
I believe true happiness comes from watching your crops ripen in the field, your children grow tall in the sun, your whole family feel the pride that springs from their shared experience.
I believe that by my toil I am giving more to the world than I am taking from it, an honor that does not come to all men.
I believe my life will be measured ultimately by what I have done for my fellowman, and by this standard I fear no judgment.
I believe when a man grows old and sums up his days, he should be able to stand tall and feel pride in the life he’s lived.
I believe in farming because it makes all this possible.
- Sperry New Holland |
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