Yonder Farms
Sweetwater, TennesseeYonder Farms is an organic farm in East Tennessee. It's a project in Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA), an arrangement by which members pay a fixed rate to get a basket of produce on a regular schedule. What and how much you get varies with the harvest, but it's all top-quality.
Run by a long-time friend, Yonder Farms was my introduction to the concept of a CSA. Basically, customers share some of the risks. With a good harvest, it's a great bargain. At other times, not so much. It's unpredictable, as nature is, but in the worst case you're paying a little more than you otherwise would to keep a family farm going until the next harvest.
Then there's the other question: How much is good food worth? Even if you're not particularly worried up about pesticides and artificial fertilizers, locally-grown produce is just better. Its varieties were bred for taste and nutrition, not for how well they could survive a week in a box car.
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