Second Year Begins for CSA at JHSPH!

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Community Supported Agriculture is bigger than ever this year at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Colorful rainbow chard, crisp spinach and bright red strawberries topped the list of favorite items recently when the CSA kicked off the beginning of its second year. “We have 66 members this year who are splitting 46 shares of produce,” said Leana Pitkevits Houser, organizer of the School’s CSA and Manager of CLF’s Living for the Future Program. Last year the CSA had 39 members from Hopkins schools and the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to new members, the CSA now has a more convenient pickup location—the Wolfe Street Building parking garage. Last year, CLF Director Bob Lawrence gave up his second floor office each Tuesday afternoon for produce delivery and member pickup. Once again, the School’s CSA will donate produce each week to an area charity. Each Tuesday, the Mattie B. Uzzle Outreach Center—a community-based multipurpose facility whose mission is to restore the optimum health and physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of men, women and children—will receive six full shares of produce. The CSA deliveries will continue through November 18. The farm is still accepting new members at a prorated cost.  Learn more about Community Supported Agriculture and how to participate.