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What makes a home-cooked breakfast on the North Shore extra special?

When it is an omelet cooked with freshly laid eggs, instead of supermarket eggs, and spinach grown in a local zip code. Imagine enjoying this meal along with a vase of colorful, recently cut flowers without having to do any of the farming work. The answer is a membership in one of the more than 20 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs on the North Shore.

There is an abundance, half of the vegetables sold in the United States are from California farms and are transported at an environmental cost. Vegetable production on local, commercial, and home-based gardens was associated with much lower negative environmental consequences.

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