In November 2010, Brian and I began our first ever CSA membership with a winter share at Mighty Food Farm. In the 27 months since then, we’ve been loyal Mighty Food members. Today we submitted payment for our third full year share. It’s honestly hard to remember a time when I wasn’t travelling to Vermont [...]
When you get your produce from a farmer’s market or CSA, it sometimes looks a little different than at the grocery store. For one thing, it’s not as perfect looking and usually not as clean, both of which I’m completely alright with. Straight carrots are highly overrated. But there’s also the issue of greens; supermarket [...]
Yesterday Brian and I drove to Mighty Food Farm for the first time since the beginning of March. I’m so glad the CSA season is starting again; frozen vegetables don’t even come close to matching fresh produce. As a result, our fruit and vegetable consumption has certainly been down lately. Sometimes I love eating seasonally, [...]
On Friday, Brian and I picked up our last CSA share until the regular season starts in May. We’d had three pick ups since my January CSA update: The results of the pick ups were pretty consistent: apples, beets, cabbage, carrots, eggs, kohlrabi, onions, potatoes, rutabagas, spinach, and/or squash. Similarly, I haven’t been overwhelmingly creative [...]
It’s the last day of January, which means winter is almost over, there’s a break from school on the horizon, and I’m already a good 2 weeks behind on my organizational calendar. Today was unseasonably warm (apparently it got up around 50 degrees!), so Brian and I went for a walk. It felt like spring, [...]
We’re a couple months into our winter CSA share now and the produce is still great. We’re consuming more squash and potatoes than the average person, but I’m totally okay with that. It’s been fun coming up with new ways to enjoy them, though there’s still a lot of roasted squash and potato hash happening. [...]
Now that we’re into the winter portion of our CSA share, pick ups are every other week. It’s a bit of a mental adjustment for me and I feel like I should be planning 2 weeks of meals when I plan my menu, instead of one. So far I haven’t been successful in this department, [...]
It’s hard to believe that last weekend was the last week of the summer season for our CSA pickup. Just another tangible demonstration of the fact that summer is officially over and winter is quickly approaching. That, and last weekend’s snowstorm. Oh well, all is not lost; we’re doing a winter share again (just like [...]
When I posted my last CSA run-down I was sort of apologetic for not updating in over a month. Since then I’ve decided that I like reporting on several weeks at once. So much of the produce we pick up gets used in our lunches (carrot and pepper sticks, etc.) or as side dishes (broccoli, [...]
It has been a full month since I last posted about our CSA pick ups. There are a number of reasons for that, mostly the fact that I had too many other wonderful things to share. The week of the Healthy Living Summit, there was no photo of the food since Brian picked it up [...]
