Sandy Spring CSA

At the grocery store, how do you know if the food you are buying has ingredients containing genetically modified organisms?  Try this mobile app.

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Grow your own food, indoors.  Ingenious! The Windowfarms Project.

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Robert True, one of the CSA founders, operates Blueberry Gardens. They are now open for U-pick. Biodynamic blueberries - yum. And the farm is a very healing place to hang out. Call ahead at 301-570-5468 for updated information or visit then online at Blueberry Gardens.

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Our farmer attempts to make all boxes the same, but sometimes that is just not possible. Please do not look through other boxes to substitute items. Each box has a number of items based on value. Please take what is in your box. It all balances out through the season.
Thank you,
Erin

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From Local Mix newsletter,The 100th anniversary party for the renowned U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Beltsville, MD is this Saturday. 
BARC will host a fun-filled and educational field day on Saturday, June 5, from 10 am to 4 pm.

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Welcome and thank you for participating. All of this information was emailed to you, so if you already read your email, this will be old news to you.
You are doing a really good thing. CSA is just about the best way to support independent, local and, in our case, organic farmers. It maximizes their [...]

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What: FRESH, the Movie Screening
When: April 30, 2010 7:30 PM
Where: The Mindfulness Center
4963 Elm Street
Bethesda, MD 20814
Recommended contribution $5
Come see “FRESH, the Movie”
Register Online Now! or call 301-986-1090
Co-sponsored by Simple Well Being [...]

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Here’s an update from Pam, with answers to questions about the upcoming planting party at Calvert Farm.

The party is open to families – but we do request that you keep an eye on your children – this is a working farm.
We have a large barn & a bathroom.
We will have a potluck lunch. please bring [...]

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Pre-season update from our farmer, Pam Stegall of Calvert Farms:
Good morning everyone – hope all is well in your corner of the world.
We are so busy – working in the greenhouse, picking up from the winter storms, plowing, tilling.
The tree frogs have been singing for a few days – the rhubarb is [...]

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The first Spring/Summer CSA pickup will be on May 12, not May 19 as posted earlier. This gives us a full 21 weeks of vegetable deliveries.

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