Over the course of 20 weeks, we shared green beans, spring mix, green onions, watermelon, tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, various herbs and peppers, and a loaf of fresh-made bread.
There were a number of great things about participating in a CSA. Aside from helping local farmers, it gave me a reason to visit with my neighbor one day a week.
Some people, I'm sure, might sign on and then never actually eat the produce, but I HATE to waste money, so whatever I received, I used. I made many, many loaves of zucchini bread, which I have sitting in my freezer for the winter. I sliced banana peppers into our salads. I made shepherd's pie on a few occasions when I only had enough green beans to use as part of a casserole.
Since the produce was cooked, it was also eaten, which means I have been consuming oodles and caboodles of veggies since May.
These past 4-5 weeks or so, I have been participating in another CSA through my husband's workplace. This one is a bigger operation, which means I have gotten some seasonal fruits as well. I have made crockpot applesauce a couple of times. I have made cushaw bread and pumpkin pie. Last week I made a superfantabulous butternut squash casserole that simply rocked my world. When N was off of school on Monday for teacher workshops, she and I took the kernels off a popcorn pone and made "real" popcorn.
I generally don't like to cook, but it has been fun to find new recipes. I have been wanting to make sweet beet cookies to see if the kids will eat them, and today we are getting a bundle of beets. I never thought I would be excited to know I'll be getting beets.
Under any other circumstances, I think this would render me completely lame. But by helping local farmers, I think it makes me uber-cool!
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