This weekend we invited friends and family over to the house to celebrate Independence Day. Large gatherings are also an excellent opportunity to share lots of food, including the heads and heads of lettuce we still have in the refrigerator from the CSA boxes and our garden. Yes, it was bad planning to have lettuce [...]
Posts Tagged ‘csa challenge’
1 Jul
Greens and Beans
A common challenge this time of season is what to do with all the kale that keeps showing up in our CSA box. Our farm grows two kinds of kale – the standard curly edge kind, and Tuscan kale, which has narrower leaves and has a bluer tint. Prior to being a CSA member, my [...]
16 Jun
Abundance of a New Season
Yesterday’s first pick up went off without much trouble. We didn’t have enough eggs for the eggshare folk, and everyone’s still getting oriented to our location and how the different sized shares work. My housemate Art was in charge of the pick up, since I was hosting a networking event for local businesses. He set [...]
13 Jun
Cooking Away My CSA Challenge
Today, through the magic that is the Intarwebs, I was contacted via Twitter by Heather, a journalist and foodie in Chicago who recently joined a CSA program. Realizing that she’ll soon receive boxes of seasonal produce every week, Heather created the Cooking Away My CSA challenge, to connect other techy CSA members to share ideas, [...]
