Organic Nutrition is The New Hot DishWhat is Organic Food and Why Does It Matter?
Learn how to reap the benefits of organic food and organic nutrition by Canning and Preserving fruits and vegetables for your family.
Nutrition Content of Foods Credit: Natalie Maynor 
Achieving natural nutrition through the excellent nutrition content of fruits and vegetables enables our bodies to repair it's cells, rather than the stress our bodies experience attempting to detox itself from these destructive chemicals. The lack of quality organic nutrition content, coupled with the negative toxic impact of conventional growing methods in the natural nutrition of growing children cannot be overemphasized. So we are going to get around this little problem and have a wonderful family and community centered great time at it. In every area of the country we have access to organic nutrition at the local harvest Farmers Markets, community supported agriculture, food co-ops and other direct marketing venues to the public. We are going to find and harvest the organic benefits of foods available year round. We are going to preserve the nutrition content of them through the Home Canning Process . We will can them, freeze them, dry them, pickle and pluck them so we can save money, stay healthy, and stay well fed even when times of crisis visit our families and communities. Community Supported Agriculture: Organic Nutrition at it's Best  Natalie MaynorThe idea of CSA was to provide farmers and the public a way to come together over the harvest for mutual benefit to farmer and consumer. The public member makes a financial commitment to the farm and receives a weekly basket of produce. Some CSA'S require members to work a small number of hours to help keep the fees down during the growing season. As a member you and your children will learn important gardening and preserving skills such as: A CSA season is typically run late Spring through early fall. The farmer offers a certain number of shares, or memberships to the public. This is usually a box, bag or basket of seasonal vegetables or other farm foods the consumer receives each week during the growing season. Over the last 20 years, CSA as a business to consumer model of food distribution has caught on like wildfire. In 1990 there were 50 of them in the U.S. and estimates are now about 2000 of them nationwide as families clamor to lower their costs, clean up their families nutrition and have fun doing it.  Children in particular, benefit from visiting "their" farm, and parents report kids are more receptive to eating vegetables they are not accustomed to, because they enjoy the farm visits and have a sense of accomplishment, good stewardship of the land, and a budding feeling of being part of something special.  Since it has been so successful, so have the variations on the initial offerings. CSA's now may offer the option of members to buy shares of eggs, meat, Cheeses, Fresh Breads, fruits and even flowers along with their basic vegetable basket. This makes organic nutrition even simpler to add into your life!
Some CSA's require members to sign a form that they agree to accept whatever the farm produces. This seems to be required of a few, at least for the time being, as the public learns to unspoil themselves and take on the risks farmers are long accustomed to shouldering. The Farmers Market Natalie Maynor 
A group of farmers organize themselves to sell their fruits and vegetables once or twice a week in a public place like a park, a lot or street side area. If your garden is not producing enough variety, shopping at a local farmers market is a great way to meet local farmers, who by the way, might know his farmer neighbor and be able to arrange for a cow to be put in your freezer. At half the cost of buying hormone fed beef at the grocery chain it is worth asking around for. Now you not only have fruits and vegetables to can or eat fresh, you also have your families beef needs seen to. So network, talk, make friends in these areas and watch your self sufficient skills take off. Don't forget the pork. The U-Pick
A U-Pick is a farm that opens it's fields to the public during it's harvest season. You don't want to miss the organic benefits and nutrition content opportunities here. Can and fill your freezer with all manner of fresh foods. Pick all varieties of berries, peaches, apples, pumpkins, pears, all the vegetables you can think of and garner whole years worth of organic benefits of the high nutrition content of fruits and berries. Learn all about canning and preserving these while they are still in season. You will thank yourself in the dead of Winter when you are enjoying these: The Family Fun Farm
You can take the kids on their train rides, mini fair items like filbert fun houses, bouncy houses and slide rides. There are haunted houses, enormous corn mazes, animal petting/feeding areas, hay mazes to delight the children, and of course, the gift shop full of home made retail country treats. You may be treated to a pirate ship in the middle of a lake, hayrides, goats tightrope walking above your head, and just about anything else these creative country folk can come up with. Since this is a site about frugal living my best advice is to watch your expenditures carefully at family fun farms. Some of this family fun is very frugal for the kids, providing country experiences they might otherwise miss, and some of them will fun you right into an empty wallet at the end of the day. The Farm Stand
Courtesy of Muffet A farm stand is a small operation, usually a booth where a farm sells it's own produce. This may be the back of a pick up truck parked in town, or a roadside stand on or near their farm.
Food Co-Ops
Family Security through Frugal Living from Organic Nutrition
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To supplement their bottom line many farms are turning to family entertainment. Some are modest and others elaborately set up with seasonal themes from Christmas to Fourth of July to Halloween celebrations. 
