We count on quite an adventure - vegetables we've not even eaten, and some we've not heard of and are planning on using the blog to journal our way through the adventure so we have something to look back on. We plan on basing our meals out of our weekly delivery for the next 8 weeks (plus some winter meals that we can prepare now and freeze, or veggies that store well over the winter months). So watch out for delivery updates, recipes, and consensus on the new veggies!
Several reasons for our decision to go CSA:
- Learn to eat seasonally and locally
- Embrace and support our local community & economy - our money goes directly to the farm, not to the 15 middle men (distributors, trucking companies, advertisers, lobbyists etc)
- Take a shared risk - we'll share in bounty as well as share in loss
- Eat healthy and creatively
- Reduce exposure to chemicals and preservatives
- Learn about where our food comes from and what it takes to produce it
- FRESH - do you know how long food takes to get from farm to grocery? its not exactly quick business! our produce (etc) will be harvested only days before it finds its way to our kitchen.
- Today : pickup from Wellhausen Farms
- Saturday : pickup from Erehwon Farms
- Sunday : pickup last bag from Wellhausen Farms
- Tuesday: pickup from Erehwon Farms (continue weekly)
What was in today's share from Wellhausen you ask? This week's delivery was light because of the early frost. We expect next week (our last week with Wellhausen for the season) to be a little bigger.
- 1 gigantic spaghetti squash! Hooray!
- A bag of assorted potatoes
- Several apples
- 1 large onion
- 1 pumpkin
XO
Evie
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