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January 7, 2008 Lauren MelodiaPosted: 07:53 PM ET
Lauren Melodia sells fresh fruits and vegetables in her Brooklyn neighborhood each week.
Have you seen an eggplant before? What about an acorn squash? I have, and you may have, too. But Lauren Melodia has found a lot of people who haven't. In an effort to help her community eat healthier and fresher foods, she started a Community Supported Agriculture project. Every week, Melodia hands out vegetables and fruit to residents in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. She encourages her neighbors to stop eating food out of a box that has ingredients they can't pronounce. CSAs are popping up countrywide because they're a mutually beneficial partnership between a local farm and a community. The residents provide a stable financial base for the farm. In turn, the farm provides affordable produce for the people - food they might have never seen before, but can certainly pronounce. Update: Watch the CNN.com Live interview Filed under: Community contributors
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