Sad Arizona CSA news.

My brother and his family have been in a CSA out in Phoenix for almost a year now. Sadly, their farmers sold the farm. The farmers are moving to Maine, and the land is being subdivided for houses. Their CSA is/was huge, and so the CSA manager is hustling to find another farmer to take over. (The CSA is going on summer! break anyway for a few weeks.)

Anyway, it's sad. It did give me newfound appreciation for all the hard work that so many people and organizations do to support farms and try to prevent them getting broken up for development. Like the people who owned our farm before us, the Seidens, donated the development rights to the Vermont Land Trust. This means the land can never be subdivided, and it lowered the value of the parcel enough to make it possible for us to buy the farm.