CSA Weeks 4 and 5

I was out of town (in Seattle and Kansas City) for weeks 3 and 4. Week 3, I bequeathed my produce to a friend, but he flaked. Week 4, I bequeathed it to some random person I’ve never met, whom I found online on a discussion board about the procurement of local farm-fresh food of other sorts. She took the above picture of what she collected at my request. So that’s week 4. Read the rest of this entry »

Cobble Hill CSA Week Two

My iPhone was dead when I went to pick up the produce this week, so I have no photos to offer of the setup in the church. But it was very similar to last time, just a bit more food. And it wasn’t raining this time, so people were moving in and out a lot more rapidly.

Ostensibly, the choices were:

chives or artichokes
curly cress or mustard greens
strawberries(!)
rhubarb Read the rest of this entry »

Cobble Hill CSA Week One

So I recently joined the Cobble Hill CSA. Basically, I paid about $500 so that, throughout the summer and autumn, I could get weekly shares of a local farmer’s harvest. Yesterday was the first pickup day of the season, so I headed to Christ Church, about a five minute walk for me. All the produce was in bins, arranged down one side of the sanctuary.

At the near end of the table was a note, explaining what was available. Read the rest of this entry »