I love Maya’s Farm, where I’m a CSA member. This is my share of the food booty this week – I get one of each item. I’m personally thrilled the turnips are back. My favorite way to eat them is raw, dressed with a little vanilla olive oil, honey and white wine vinegar. I’ll be eating these babies now through winter and into spring.
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Yum…When is dinner?
Mmmm radishes…I love radishes…
@PaulD – if you can help eat all these veggies, any night, stop by around 6pm
@heath – I love them too, but some of these are HOT! phew! so hot I can’t eat more than one with a meal. and we get so many I had to find a special recipe to use up all the radish tops
Wow – yum. How does it work? You’re a member, you pay a subscription and that’s enough to support the farm? Presumably they also sell a lot? How far away is the farm?
The farm is about 10 miles from my house, Ru. It’s in an area where there used to be a lot of small agriculture but is now being slowly taken over with housing developments – only now the economy’s stuffed no one’s buying the houses. A full share is $315 for 12 weeks, and we’re halfway through right now. Maya, the farmer, just started selling the next 12-week share. The advance investment will allow her to get the next round of seeds started. I’m sharing the risk of crop failure with her, and she’s significantly lowering the cost of organic, sustainably-produced produce for me. If I bought the same amount of food from Whole Foods, I’d pay $80-100 per week, not $103 per month.
Oh, also she sells at all the local farmers’ markets. She’s got a booth at a different one nearly every day. And speaking of crop failure, we had one. Her chickens are molting and not laying eggs right now, so we aren’t getting eggs weekly at the moment. Which is fine because I still have 2 dozen, and several other farmers sell eggs at the market where I pick up my share.
wow that looks SO YUMMY!
and also, i think it’s a wonderful initiative. we’ve started getting a delivery every week from a local-ish organic food company that deliver a beg box plus anything else you want to order – it’s incredible, both in terms of quality and value. I’ll never want to go back to the supermarket!