I have thought about joining a CSA since last summer when I started reading so many good things on other food blogs. I did a google search and found one near me. The only thing is that I have decide if I am going to do all three seasons, or just pick one season to see if I like it.
UPDATED: This is what a CSA is, for those who might not know 😀
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Interested consumers purchase a share (aka a “membership” or a “subscription”) and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season.
My inclination is to choose the “summer” season, because I know tomatoes will be in the offering and I will can a lot of salsa and pasta sauce for the winter. The “spring” season offers “plants and produce.” I am not good with plants, I kill just about anything that enters my house. The “fall” season offers produce and pumpkins.
Which season would you pick, or would you pick all three?
I just threw stuff in a bag this morning and this is what I’ve come up with. Two chicken tacos with red peppers, a 1.5 cup of tomato soup and apples and grapes. Not very exciting – I know!
We are going out for sushi tonight – Tony saw my menu board and saw that tonight I had planned on making beef and broccoli with shrimp wonton soup and quickly stated that he would be out of town on Thursday! I suggested sushi and both Tony and Hannah were a bit too quick to ditch the menu board! I can freeze the beef for another use.
Both of my co-workers could not shred at lunch today, so I decided to switch it up. Since my lazy a$$ didn’t get up this morning, I did 45 minutes of walking/running on the treadmill at lunch, and then plan to do shred tonight either before we go to dinner, but most likely after dinner. I need to earn my sticker!!
See you after sushi!
I checked into joining one last year, but for only one person, I felt it was cost prohibitive, and possibly too much food! Oak Park’s farmers market works OK for me.
I have thought about joining a CSA also, but I am concerned it is going to only give me more of what I already have, instead of different vegetables.
The CSAs I found around us were SUPER expensive… and my mom told me that she could get better produce at the farmers market… but they’re still intriguing!
I’d love to join a CSA, but they’re rather pricey in my area. I’d at least do summer and fall, especially since I have a hard time growing tomatoes in the fog belt we live in.
Summer sounds like the winner! It’s too bad you couldn’t pick both summer and fall. Tony eats sushi, too?! All of the guys in my life wouldn’t touch anything resembling sushi!
Yep! He’s all raw though, while Hannah and I eat all the cooked stuff!
you so deserve your sticker!
what is the CSA thing you’re inquiring about?
Sushi is fantastic. I’ve never done the CSA thing but it sounds like fun- probably a good idea to start with just the one season and go from there 🙂
When you work out at lunch do you go home? Do you shower? Hopefully when busy season is over at work I can squeeze in lunch work outs – I just don’t know how they work!
The gym at my office is literally one minute from my desk – and only costs $100 for the whole year! They have a locker room with four individual shower stalls – one room of the gym is all weights (both machines and free weights) while the other room has two ellipticals, two treadmills, a bike, stair stepper and a tv with dvd player.
I am so lucky!
The CSA by me is already full, but I’m on a waiting list. 🙁
I think I’d maybe just do Summer. I’m with you – Spring plants seem difficult and Fall seems like it’d be lots of squash, which I’d have a hard time using up.