FarmerJawn Community Greenhouses, an Elkins Park community-supported agriculture (CSA) grower, has a business model seeded with concern for the area’s underfed communities. To illustrate what it does and how, Christa Barfield (the CSA’s founder) is holding a public market on Sept. 3 (tomorrow) in West Mount Airy. Maggie Mancini unearthed the particulars for PhillyVoice.

Barfield established FarmerJawn in 2020. It resulted from a vacation experience that introduced her to the joys and health benefits of naturally grown produce. She combined that interest with a desire to provide healthy food raised sustainably to her community, and FarmerJawn, her CSA, blossomed.

“FarmerJawn was founded with the mission to bring health and wellness to low-income communities as well as bringing forward the education behind agriculture and being able to grow your own food regardless of lack of space, or education,” said Kale Henderson, facilitator for the public market event.

The market is free (with registration), and includes craft vendors, food trucks, plant workshops, live music, and numerous vendors selling sustainable goods. Among its goals is to show attendees, especially those from communities of color, the benefit of CSA produce and instill in them a passion for growing or accessing nutritious, healthy food.

It will take place at the FarmerJawn Greenery, 6730 Germantown Ave., West Mount Airy.

More on Christa Barfield, her CSA, and visionary, service-oriented business model, is at PhillyVoice.