We picked up our first of (at least) three monthly baskets today. We are hoping that it makes us enjoy cooking again, and helps us be more creative in the kitchen than we have become lately. Everything in the basket looks great, and we have already planned our weekly menu around all the great produce. Here is the complete list of what was in our basket:
- Milk, 1/2 gallon (organic, low-fat)
- Raw-milk Colby cheese
- Bacon
- Rice
- Shiitake mushrooms
- 3 bags of purple hull peas (like black eyed peas, but with a purple bit instead of black)
- A bag of basil
- A bag of spring salad mix
- 3 smallish Japanese eggplants
- 1 or 2 pint box of grapes
- 1 or 2 pint box of peppers, several varieties
- 5 sweet potatoes
- Loaf multi-grain bread
- Watermelon
- 1 jar grape jelly
- 1 jar honey
3 comments:
That actually looks like a very good deal by my standards! We could easily spend $15 in our neck of the woods on the milk, bacon and cheese alone. Our CSA farm probably costs about that much for the season, and although I think we get more vegetables, especially with the u-pick stuff, that's all we get. They sell local honey, bread, yogurt, cheese, miso etc. at the pick-up shed, a convenience that I appreciate, but none of those things are included in the CSA price. I guess we're also paying for the pleasure of taking the toddler to the farm to "work in the fields" and watch the horses plowing under fields, harvesting their grain, etc.
I think we would get more vegetables, if it wasn't the end of August. In Arkansas, like in Texas, it is a mostly dead time of the growing year. Too hot for anything vegetable to be happy. I just hope we get some apples or peaches next month. And if we stay with it, vegetable will probably come in April, May, June...
So you only get one basket per month? What are you suppose to do the other three weeks? M
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