By Nina Andres

You check your calendar, your watch, or have an e-mail reminder—it is Wednesday, the day to pick up your FarmShare. You walk, bike, drive, or take public transit to your pick-up location and fill up a bag with the week’s fresh produce, and maybe chat a bit with another member who is also picking up. You head home, or to your desk, and put the fruit and vegetables in the refrigerator or a cooler to keep them cool until you get home.

Though they sound so simple, these actions are ripples in a wave of change. For example, you are looking for something to eat. If you choose fresh fruit over a bag of chips, or a home-cooked meal over take-out, over time these choices will positively impact your health, in both the short- and long-term. For your local farmer, who grows the fruit, your choice will impact their farm and the local economy in both the short- and long-term as well. If the neighboring farm you purchased that fruit from farmed with sustainable methods, your choice positively affects the environment…and so on and so on.

Ordering FarmShares is not only about buying quality food, but also a part of reclaiming our health, our enjoyment of eating fresh, seasonal, delicious food, and helping shape the kind of community we want to live in—one in which urban communities and nearby farms thrive, and the connection between the two is strong.

Here are a few recent news articles about these ripples of change in our local community and the broader food, finance, and health systems.

Capay Valley Looks at Going Its Own Way for Electricity

By Hudson Sangree

Eating Is an Agricultural Act

By Michael Pollan

Can ‘Slow Investing’ Remake America’s Food Industry?

By Judith D. Schwartz

Big Food vs. Big Insurance

By Michael Pollan

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