Because of Janie Starr's belief that our personal well being is intricately connected to the health of the planet and that eating locally grown organic food is one step toward achieving both,

All proceeds to the author will be donated to the White Oak Farm & Education Center, previously known as CEAD (the Collective for Education, Agroecology, and Diversity), a not-for-profit organization based in southwest Oregon.

White Oak Farm is dedicated to cultivating connections between people and their local ecosystems by pursuing community food security, fostering ecological and agricultural diversity, and teaching the arts of sustainable living.

Here's what the co-directors have to say about this amazing venture:

"White Oak Farm seeks to be a part of a growing worldwide movement to discover, live, and communicate what works for the future of all life. Our piece of this vision is to help form relationships between humans and our food, our home places, and the natural systems of which we are a part. We are working for this positive change by creating a farm and education center that is healthy, diverse, and productive and shares its bounty with the surrounding community. The farm will be the physical and spiritual heart of White Oak Farm. It will be an ecologically sound and economically viable center dedicated to teaching, cultivating an ecological agriculture, and fostering biological and agricultural diversity.

Specifically we plan to
1) Develop a farm and education center on 62 acres of pasture and forest land to serve as White Oak Farm's home.
2) Create a diverse, productive, healthy, and positive farm organism based on the principles of Permaculture design, organic management, renewable energy, and natural building.
3) Grow a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.
4) Grow food for those who cannot afford to pay for organic produce by providing CSA (community supported agriculture) shares to local food banks and shelters.
5) Host school visits in the spring and fall and offer summer children's farm camps.
6) Hold Permaculture Design courses and workshops devoted to sustainable living skills.
7) Design and install organic gardens and edible landscapes for local schools, organizations, and community members.
8) Develop reforestation and wildlife habitat planting projects.
9) Disseminate beneficial plants by holding spring plant sales, seed exchanges, and a winter scion exchange."

For more information send an email to info@whiteoakfarmcsa.org. To make a donation, make your check payable to White Oak Farm and mail c/o Taylor Starr & Stacey Denton, Co-Directors, P.O. Box 450, Williams, OR, 97544.
Thank you.