On one of our visits to New York this year, a friend of ours started talking about the CSA (or Community Supported Agriculture [wikipedia.org]) she was participating in. Heimlich and I thought to ourselves, "You get what from the who?" It is times like those that make me feel as though I must be living under a rock.
Since then, without even looking, I have seen articles about CSAs showing up in the news sources that I read anyway. Apparently, you pay up front for that season's worth of vegetables, usually to a small local farm. And every week or so, you get a share of whatever has been harvested lately.
Of course, there is good news and bad news. The main piece of bad news in my head is that you don't get to choose what vegetables you get. You get a part of whatever is harvested. So, if they are harvesting radishes (yech!) or whatever, you're getting a basket-full of them.
On the other hand, there are tons of things that I don't know how to cook, because I haven't done enough experimentation. Sometimes I feel as though I am stuck in a rut, and am not trying to learn how to cook new things. Lately, all I have been cooking with are green peppers, onions, and tomatoes. But there must be plenty of other tasty things out there to try.
Picture of vegetables courtesy of bullish1974's Flickr photostream [flickr.com].
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