Local Farmers Featured On CNN
Nature's Harmony, a sustainable farm in Elberton, continues to create a buzz with their unconventional and "beyond organic" farming techniques. Besides selling locally-grown fruits and veggies, they have recently expanded to meat. Back in June, CNN visited the farm three times for a story that came out today. (Read it HERE).
Nature's Harmony is a member of a growing local-food movement, often referred to as Community-Supported Agriculture. The CSAs, as they're called, are a model in which consumers pay for their food in advance and receive it directly from the farmer. Working much like a magazine subscription, customers pay for a period of usually at least six months and receive packages either at the farm or at established delivery locations.
Although thousands of farms have sprung up over the past two decades selling fruits and vegetables using the system, experts say there are probably only a few dozen that, like the Georgia farm, offer meat.
Farmers Tim and Liz Young raise cattle, pigs, chickens, turkeys and lambs on their 76-acre farm in northeast Georgia, near the South Carolina state line.
Check out this great concept and unique farm at www.naturesharmonyfarm.com.
06 August 2009
