Today is the first Wednesday of the month and the day I get my Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) box from Farm Fresh to You. It's only my third box and the first two times I was shocked to see it on my doorstep as I was leaving for work. Today I am ready for it and I peak outside and see that, sure enough, it's already there. (During the summer deliveries are made anywhere from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m.)


Yesterday I had been out to the Capay Organic farm, home to the Barsotti family and Farm Fresh to You. I had hoped I would be able to see my box being packed for delivery, but found out that the assembly and distribution actually takes place in a facility in West Sacramento. I still got a lovely tour of the farm though with their cousin, Gavin Taylor, Harvest Specialist, and Barbara Archer, Communications Manager.


Originally the farm, or rather weedy acreage, was only twenty acres when Kathleen Barsotti and Martin Barnes bought it in 1976. Kathleen had majored in Ecology at UC Davis and so they wanted to start a pesticide-free farm, much to the chagrin of their farming neighbors. Over the years the family was able to increase their holdings to 80 acres and then to 250 acres that are currently owned and another 100 acres that are leased. Capay Organic, as it was named, became the second California farm to be certified as organic.