First Week of CSA

Yummy!

I just picked up our second week of fresh veggies from Crunchy Granola Baby, where Heaven's Harvest farm delivers their Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares. This is our third year participating and we love it. Last week I thought I would document some of the delicious meals we made; take a look.Pizza with greens and broccoli, and I made pizza dough in the bread machine for the 1st time. It was an exciting night.

Farm fresh eggs and homemade zucchini herb bread; a wonderful breakfast with our friend Will.

Bruschetta with almond/garlic paste, goat feta and greens. This was Jon's favorite.

Bulgar salad with cucumber, radish, and scallion, served in pitas. Cucumber and radish are not my favorite veggies, but this was delicious.

Stir-fry bok-choi with a little egg over rice.

Umm, as I sit here and snack on the strawberries and sugar peas from this week, I am starting to plan dishes for next week.

Spring Blossoms

I noticed this weekend that things in the garden are staring to blossom. Peas, zucchini, tomatoes all have flowers. Beans, lettuce, pepper, broccoli and herbs are also sprouting up quite nicely. All this rain is good for something!

Jon's Columbine is blooming like crazy.

And after a long delay, I finally finished my self-watering planter project. I am hoping it will grow some extra-special, delicious broccoli.

Food Inc.

We watched Food Inc. this afternoon. It is kind of like King Corn but more detailed about where meat/poultry/dairy comes from, how they are raised, what the animals eat, and how it's produced. It was disgusting. The problem, though, with these films is that watching them is entertaining and disgusting but will it move me to change? I want to think - sure it will - but in reality I think that it won't. I have frozen meats in the freezer that I bought from BJs and I'm going to eat them all. Throwing them away is wastful but keeping them means that I am ignoring the film? You could say that I won't buy meats in BJs or other big-box stores but that's kind of ridiculous. Have you looked into purchasing locally grown/fed cattle? It's expensive. Here in New England there are 'meat farms' in Vermont and to buy meat would cost about $250 and up. We participate in a Summer CSA that costs $375 for 15 weeks - the most veggies I eat in a year! I did do some research on WHERE to participate in buying local, here's the website: http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/ (sorry Sally/Ian, nothing in Cananda). However, our food cost would go up immediately! The problem is cost. It seems that it's always the first issue. So after watching this film, like other films I've seen, I'm going to TRY to reduce the amount of GMOs I consume, the amount of corn, and eat more locally...which means we probably won't eat out as much since that food is mass produced, the same as Stop & Shop, etc. I think is ridiculous - from the film - that even the veggies in the grocery stores are modified! It seems that there's nothing 'safe' to eat unless it's organic and locally grown. Maybe we should move to a place next to a farm and 'live off the land' like the Amish do! I wonder how their health is since they don't buy food from the stores....hmmmm, another documentary film idea??
THOUGHTS????