A year ago I posted

A year ago I posted about joining a CSA (community supported agriculture) program. If I were as ambitious and meticulous as Rebecca Blood, I’d give you a careful analysis of whether joining such a program was worthwhile economically, with some consideration of the organic and local nature of the produce thrown in.

Being neither, I’m happy to report that we had a lot of fun getting fresh vegetables every week. We were unfamiliar with cooking (if not eating) some of the vegetables, which inspired us to try a bunch of new recipes – exactly as I’d hoped when we signed up. I especially enjoyed the salad mix we got in early spring and summer and again in the last couple of weeks of the program in fall. Who knew arugula was the most delicious green on earth, and why didn’t anyone tell me?

In the middle of the season they hooked up with a nearby orchard to offer a fruit share – literally the day after I had been thinking of inquiring whether they had considered such a thing(!) – and the locally grown apples were abundant (~dozen/week), crisp, and sweet.

I was a bit surprised we didn’t get more tomatoes and corn, though I understand (thanks to the rad newsletter) that predatory herbivores were a problem this year. We also split a two-person share among my wife, father, and brother, so there you go. In any case we will surely participate again next year.