Making room for more vegetables

Week three my husband Scott joined me on the trip to pick up our veggie share. I showed him the notebook where we checked my name off the list and which color bin (ours is red) to pick up. This week the bin was chock-full, and I wondered how I could possibly fit all this produce into our refrigerator! At home, I pulled it all out of the bags and put it in a pile on on the kitchen counter. It was two feet wide and a foot tall! "Wow," I thought. "I am really going to have to look for someone to share this with." In the meantime, I needed to put it somewhere. Scott pulled out a cooler and we decided until getting organized it could be stored there. After all, the vegetable bin in the fridge was still full from what's left of last week's allotment!

So the cooler stayed in our dining room for a couple of days and I started telling friends about our CSA commitment. While hiking with Carolyn, a friend who is very health-conscious, I asked her if she was interested and explained what it was about. "You bet!" was her response. I cautioned her that this was a long-term commitment and told her we shared the risk with the farmer, suggesting that she think it over. But she needed no convincing. She was ready to go for it, and that was easy! The first friend I asked was willing to split our share, and we are set for the growing season.