Week 6

This week's farm share will include:
- green onion
- zucchini
- broccoli
- fresh garlic
- oregano
- corn (Speedy Sweet variety)
It sounds like a good bundle! I better sign off for today and get to work planning what we should make this week.

My Thoughts After a Months Worth of CSA Farm Share

How will we ever go back to the grocery store? Seriously, the produce is so much tastier when we get it straight from the farm and it seems to last a lot longer in the fridge. Part of that is from me researching how to best store each and every vegetable/fruit as they are so delicious I wouldn't want to see even a bite go to waste.

I have been going to the grocery store only once a week now -- sometimes twice, but only to pick up the basic necessities like milk, paper towel, cooking oil, and other things I can't get from the farm. I really don't miss it and when I add up my grocery bill for the past month it seems to be  less money than it had been in previous months. I must say, I really don't miss visiting the grocery store either.

We've both noticed that we've lost weight and we feel healthier too. We have now removed most of the processed foods from our diet. The only few processed foods that remain in our house are the cereal that is in our cupboard, ice cream, yogurt and lactose-free milk.

Another thing we have noticed is a serious reduction in the amount of garbage we produce each week. There are no more plastic produce bags from the grocery store, and many less cartons too. All the packaging we get from our farm share gets returned to the farm at the end of the week so that it can be reused. Definitely much better for the environment than recycling.

Week 3, 4 and 5

This month certainly has flown past quickly! Below is a list of some of the delicious items we have been receiving in our CSA basket: 

Week 3

- lettuce (2 heads)

- spinach

- asparagus

- strawberries!!!

- garlic scapes

Week 4

- spinach 

- garlic scapes

- romaine and red leaf lettuce 

- sugar snap peas

- strawberries

- green onions 

Week 5

- red leaf lettuce

- strawberries

- asparagus

- snow peas 

- sugar snap peas

- Zucchini (yellow and green)

In addition to using these ingredients to make some of the recipes I've already posted, we made many delicious salads, zucchini soup and an Indian style zucchini curry (the curry was made with an onion, garlic scapes, 3 zucchinis, 1 tomato, cumin, garam masala, red chili flakes, coriander powder and salt).