Farmers used to drop off boxes of kale, root vegetables, maybe even a bottle of cow's milk on front porches and drive off in their Ford Econolines or trucks. In the not-so-distant 1990s, this was the glorious meeting between local patron and small farms, an early version of the subscription food system known as community supported agriculture (CSA). "[CSAs] were a completely new arrangement. .
Horticulturist Joseph Lofthouse says a one-size-fits-all approach to seeds doesn t work. He speaks with Thomas Christopher about the need for seeds that grow well where you are planting.