Where does your food come from?

Brian and I belong to http://www.chestnutfarms.org/ , where we buy 10 lbs of meat from a local farm each month. We are supporting local farming, getting food of the highest quality available and knowing where our stuff is coming from. Nutritionally we benefit from the lack of chemicals, and the grass-fed or pastured meats. We can rest more easily knowing that our dinner was treated well and humanely as possible before it was our dinner (and also know in great detail the conditions in which the animals were slaughtered and prepared).

They send monthly an update right before pickup time of what's been going down at the farm. This one was very moving and illustrates the kind of work that our farmers do, particularly in a cold New England winter. Though we're spending more money to buy our food in this way I'm so glad that we have made this move. As folks worry about what kind of tainted peanut butter may be in their processed foods we are eating the bulk of our stuff (meat and milk) from a local farmer that's doing things for the most part as nature intended it to be. We're directly supporting (financially) the people that put stuff on our table. This makes me feel very good. Granted, we have the luxury of doing this kind of thing. Good, real food should not be a luxury (but I digress).

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