Did you eat your vegetables today? Join a CSA

CSA, community supported agriculture, organic food, healthy food, Sauvie Island OrganicsCommunity Supported Agriculture programs, known as CSAs, are a great way to ensure you have lots of vegetables every week to prepare and eat. Today Ellen Goldsmith speaks with Shari Raider, founder and owner of Sauvie Island Organics in Portland, Oregon. Sauvie Island Organics fed over 750 families through their CSA program, and provided local, organic vegetables to numerous restaurants, as well as to a local hospital’s cafeteria. Fresh food is on the way and a CSA is a great way to get it. Eat your vegetables!

Now that Sauvie Island Organics has closed their work continues through the Sauvie Island Center, educating youth on farming, food an sustainability. Learn more here.

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Ellen Goldsmith

Ellen Goldsmith

Ellen Goldsmith is a licensed and nationally board certified acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist. She has been in the field of Asian medicine for the past 30 years, teaching, speaking and working with thousands of people to give them the resources, skills and tools they seek to improve the quality of their health and lives. Ellen is the author of the well respected book, Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine: + 175 Recipes for Optimal Health. She is on faculty at the National University of Natural Medicine’s College of Classical Chinese Medicine in Portland, Oregon.

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