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>>Erik: How has your life style changed for the better by embracing slow food and community
supported agriculture?
>>Cathy: Well I feel much healthier for one. Certainly, throughout the two years that I
was not eating out, strictly as a rule. I think I was a lot healthier overall. I would
just cook more simple things because if you use these great, fresh, farm fresh ingredients
you don`t need to do a whole lot of tinkering with it. You can, and it would still be very
healthy, but these vegetables typically contain more nutrients. They were grown in better
conditions. The meats too, having grass fed animals. So, for your health, first and foremost,
it`s a good thing, but you also get to meet people in your community and that`s a big
thing. Meeting the farmers themselves can enhance your knowledge about how to grow food.
Maybe you would like to grow your own food? I hope to soon.
>>Erik: Is that one of your goals for 2010?
>>Cathy: Yeah it is, it`s going to be a big project. Joining a CSA, a community supported
agriculture group is just a great warm feeling to be part of that group. A farmer invited
us to come up and visit his farm in Long Island for a visit and a whole group of us went.
We also each take turns for the volunteer shift to help facilitate the passing out of
the food. So, we get to know each other. This was a new CSA in my neighborhood, which is
Crown Heights, and it was the first year of it, so it didn`t exist, and thank goodness
for Just Food, because they helped make it happen. I actually got to meet so many people
that were in my neighborhood and I didn`t realize it. I always thought I lived in a
neighborhood that was kind of [pause] I just didn`t know too many people there, but know,
apparently a lot of people, like minded about food, just really cool people.