Fresh from the Farm

Tuesday we got our first CSA box for the season!  In case you want to know, CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and is basically a farm “share.”  You pay money, and each week you get some fresh, local produce that was harvested!  This farm is in Cleveland but they have a pick up location… minutes from my house.  :) :) :) :)

My mom went with us this time, which is good because I can’t actually fit into that tiny store with my children (It’s The Natural Kitchen in the Skeeter’s parking lot.).  In the future I will probably have to wait for Matt to come home before I get my box.  I’m really not kidding about the tinyness of the store.

Anyway… here is our bounty for this week!

Strawberries!!  They smell so fresh every time I open my fridge!

Spring green mix.  This is not my favorite kind of salad green, but my family eats it okay.  I gave one of the two bags of it to my mom.

Broccoli!  Whatever we don’t eat “whole,” I will cook up and puree for James in a couple of months.

Beautiful spring onions.  I’m probably going to throw these into soup or broth, unless anyone’s got a better idea.

Two big ol’ bunches of spinach!  We’ve eaten some with taco salad, mixed some into smoothies (yum!), and we’ll eat some cooked, I think.  As with the broccoli, whatever we can’t use up, I can cook and freeze for baby food (or regular people food, for that matter).

Sugar snap peas – sooooooo good!

Radish micro greens.  I put some on Matt’s salad today.  Not sure what else to do with them, if anything.

As you can see, there is A LOT of salad stuff involved here.  I’m glad we opted for the every other week option, as this is way too much green stuff for our little family every week!

The produce will change up some in the coming weeks of course.  It’s all about what is harvested at that time.  I LOVE the variety, and we’re introduced to things I never would have thought to pick up at the store!  And it’s all fresh, in season, and locally grown!!