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Join the Local Food Revolution

with La Terre Partagée

by Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson

Three years ago, I wrote in Giv'er Miramichi about my Terre Partagée, want to see the growth of not only our farm
travels in Central America and my project of starting a but the local food movement in the region for so many
Community Supported Agriculture program where people reasons.
would sign up as members and in exchange receive a weekly Firstly, the feeling of farming as a team is unparalleled.
supply of local and organic vegetables and fruit. The The rows seem much shorter, the weeds much less daunting
following three years were so full of life—a partner, a baby, and the cold or heat much more bearable if you are doing it
a vibrant agricultural community with dynamic young together. The simple joy of celebrating your hard work with
people, a multi-generational family endeavour, and many your friends over an ice cream or a swim in the lake is
many pounds of vegetables later, here I still am— amazing. The connection that this hard work brings us to past
transplanting, seeding, trying to convince people of the value generations, to the children that play alongside us and to
not only of buying organic but of using your hard earned peasant farmers across the world sustains us through the long
dollars to sustain our land and the people on it. hours.
Three years ago, my vision wasn’t as clear or as full Secondly, we want to grow the diversity of products
fledged but now, nothing is stopping us. All the farmers at La available within our community and our region and make it

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