Help me find a farmer!

After much thought, a very close and extended encounter with Eric Schlosser's FAST FOOD NATION, attention to Michael Pollan's new book The Omnivore's Dilemma, and a now-unavoidable concern about the industrialized production of food, I've decided that the wife and the boy and the soon-to-arrive boy and I are going to do our best to buy local, and organic if possible. No more 6.5 lb packages of frozen Tyson chicken breasts at Costco. No more Chilean grapes at Whole Foods. It's going to be more expensive (well, except for those Whole Foods grapes), but I just think we've got to do it.

So, I'd like some advice from Pittsburgh folks who know about community-based agriculture programs in the area. Our neighbors recommend The Kretschmann Farm, a friend advised Grow Pittsburgh, and I've often bought meats at the Kennedy Farms outlet at the East Liberty Farmers Market. We shop at the East End Food Co-Op on occasion, but the produce there isn't particularly local and damn, it's expensive.

But this is an agricultural area. There must be a ton of local outfits for produce and meats. Anyone else have any recommendations? Good experiences, bad? Should we have boxes of produce delivered weekly? Go out and pick it up?