Farm stewards across the USA and CSA Farms here in the Greater Asheville area contributed so much to 
our holiday season. All across the nation farmer's markets offered sustainable, useful gifts such as honey, molasses, jams, jellies, pickles, salad dressings, and herb vinegars and oils directly from the person who made them.
Did your family, friends and wonderful real estate clients enjoy the small tokens of affection found for them as much as mine did?
I found "non-edible" gifts such as soaps, salves, lotions, pottery, baskets, quilts, pot holders, bee's wax candles, brooms, and more local wood and fiber crafts.
The excellent thing about this is that the offerings are not just for the holiday season. Would you expect less from a CSA, a community supported agriculture enterprise(community farm with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production?) CSA and farms selling healthy products have something for you no matter what time of year it is.
FIND a CSA Across the USA: for those of you NOT living in Asheville, visiting or relocating, here is a link to http://www.localharvest.org/csa/ Locally Grown is GOOD, no matter where You Live =)
Asheville Links:
Slow Food Asheville's monthly newsletter http://www.slowfoodasheville.org/ which may be of interest to you
Firefly Farm (Burnsville,NC)
Cane Creek Asparagus & Company (Fairview,NC)
Green Toe Ground Farm (Burnsville,NC
Jake's Farm (Candler,NC
Homegrown Heritage (Candler,NC)
Gaining Ground Farm (Asheville,NC)
Flying Cloud Farm (Fairview,NC)
Mountain Harvest Organics (Hot Springs,NC)
UPDATE: January, 2009...Cane Creek CSA is now accepting subscriptions.
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CSA and farms selling healthy products have something for you no matter what time of year it is..my favorite may be honey...how about YOU?
UPDATE: January, 2009...Cane Creek CSA is now accepting subscriptions.