White Rose Farm provides fresh fruit and vegetables to The Turning Point every Saturday morning of the growing season. Visit their website to learn more about joining the CSA, so you too can nourish your body, mind, and spirit every week with locally-grown veggies and community acupuncture!
The Turning Point strongly promotes supporting local farmers because of the ecological and economical impact that local agriculture has on the community, and because supporting farmer's markets is a fun way to build new relationships within our neighborhoods. From a Chinese perspective, locally
Community Supported Agriculture
“Live each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”
--Henry David Thoreau
grown foods deliver the most seasonally appropriate nutrition. Chinese herbalists suggest that the foods should actually be more in sympathy with the season, so that the body becomes more in harmony with the prevailing climate.
"In spring one should eat more pungent and warm foods to stay in harmony with the upward movement of the season; in summer one should eat more pungent and hot foods to stay in harmony with the outward movement of the season; in autumn one should eat more sour and warm foods to stay in harmony with the season; in winter one should eat more bitter and cold foods to stay in harmony with the inward movement of the season." --Li Shi Zhen: An Outline of Materia Medica, 1578
