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Signing up for a Community-Supported Agriculture program means getting a box of produce from local farms every week or two.

If the overabundance of root vegetables like sunchokes, black radishes and kohlrabi the size of my head is the late-winter scourge of my community-supported agriculture program, the steady supply of braising greens is its redemption.

“And if you really get into me, I oppose the industrialization of food, which is problematic on so many levels: for us, the planet, the animals, the soil. If you look at our food system from that perspective and think about how to feed ourselves in a sustainable way in cities, it goes to growing food locally, shopping farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture.

Given her small-business success — she’s doubled the farm’s annual revenue every year since its inception in 2019 — Nafis notes that she and her husband, Chris, a pastor, failed miserably in their previous attempts at farming a small community-supported agriculture farm on a vacant lot in Lemon Grove in 2012 and a 45-acre ranch in Jamul in 2013.

The couple sells to local grocers who run co-ops and through what is known as a CSA, community-supported agriculture.