My first produce pickup was yesterday. I was able to choose a location a few blocks from my home, hosted by an architecture firm. A wooden lean-to has been constructed to house the pickup, next to the building on a corner. I pulled up and saw brightly colored bins stacked under the lean-to with a sheet of instructions posted. The blue bins were Family shares (large), the red bins are Small shares (medium) and the purple bins are Single shares (small). Hmmm, those labels seem confusing, reminding me of Starbucks sizes, where a Grande means small. I guess they think that small, medium, and large would be too generic a way to describe them.
I had been reminded by the Grant Farms e-newsletter to bring my canvas bags. I put a check by my name on the list, and peered into my red small share box. I was pleased with my first week's assortment: 2 heads of Butter lettuce, one head of Romaine, a large bag of spinach, several stalks of rhubarb, several small beets, and bunches of dill and cilantro. They even enclosed a half dozen organic eggs (pasture raised) with a note encouraging me to sign up for an egg share so I could receive them weekly.
As I loaded my canvas bags with produce, I mused that it was going to take some commitment and planning to use these vegetables up every week and make sure they don't rot in the refrigerator. It will take some discipline to wash and prepare vegetables instead of eating out or picking up prepared foods as I often have been in the habit of doing.
When I got home with the produce, my 18-year-old daughter Corinne announced that she was "in the mood" for a salad, offering to go to her favorite salad place and pick up take-out salad for dinner. I laughed, and showed her the heads of lettuce and bag of spinach I had just picked up. She wanted Greek salad, so she headed to the store to pick up olives and feta cheese to add to what I'd just brought home, and she prepared a family-sized Greek salad for our main course for that night's supper. As Corinne, my husband Scott, and I ate our salad that evening, I thought I was getting a glimmer of how this CSA thing might change our eating habits.
Friday, June 19, 2009
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