February 26 marks the second annual CSA Signup Day, an international, virtual event that celebrates Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and invites people to participate by signing up for a CSA with a local farm. The inaugural CSA Signup Day was held on Saturday February 28, 2015 by Small Farm Central, a Pittsburgh-based technology company that provides web services to direct-marketing farms, once they identified that date as the most popular day of the year for CSA signups

Farmers Markets in the winter? You bet! Richmond has six that are open year round. What will you likely find? Locally raised meat and eggs, kale, collards, winter squash, onions and root vegetables such as carrots, turnips and sweet potatoes. All local, which means your food probably traveled less than 75 miles to get to you, rather than 1,075. And there’s more! Most of the markets also have baked goods – breads, sticky buns, pies – jarred sauces, jams, jellies and pickles as