With all the food contamination scares in recent years more Americans are paying closer attention to where their food comes from.

Many are opting for food grown closer to home even buying what's called CSA or Community Supported Agriculture.

Laura Langemo explains what this program is all about and what local farmers think about it in your Green Life.

The growth of local produce farms has been explosive feeding customers who believe fresher means healthier.

"Better on a number of counts. More flavorful, looks better, and the invisible part you can't tell, is that it is pesticide and chemical free."

That concept explains the flood of fresh food fans that've picked up on CSA or Community Supported Agriculture.

A CSA farm works like this shareholders pay the local farmer up front then during the growing season the farmer delivers a share of each week's harvest.

Farmer John Fisher- Merritt of Wrenshall was skeptical of the program at first.

"When we heard about Community Supported Agriculture, we though ya know, well people aren't going to do that, pay in advance, not knowing what they are going to get."

But the program has paid off for John along with many families receiving the produce.

"I have a little more control of what is going into my child."

Many of these farmers anticipate seeing more families jumping on the CSA bandwagon.

"People want to know more about where their food is coming from."

CSA prices vary across the country but most families can expect to pay around five-hundred to eight-hundred dollars a year.