Farm Share

One of the things I enjoy most about summer is my participation in a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm This is the second year I have purchased a farm share in the Mountain View Farm at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. Tuesday is my pick up day, so this afternoon I climbed in my Jeep and drove 50 miles to the farm to fetch my share of the week's harvest. Here's what I received: French breakfast radishes, spring onions, red leaf lettuce, Salad Mix with baby chard and brassicas, basil, Swiss chard, and a big bag of several varieties of new potatoes. Yum.

The vegetables are grown with no pesticides and harvested with care. They are always fresh and flavorful--beautiful and delicious. And it so much fun to plan meals around the harvest rather than purchasing produce based on meal plans. While I have always considered myself a good cook, the CSA experience has both challenged and improved my cooking and meal planning skills.