It's been a long time since our last post. Our CSA has been providing us produce for over a month now, and while it started slow the first couple of weeks, the four of us have now been trying to figure out how to use all of the vegetables and fruit -- and especially the lettuce -- so as not to produce more food waste. So to inaugurate what I expect will be the first of many similar posts, we run down what our family share received over the last couple of weeks, and what we did with it.
Saturday, May 29.
- 8 heads of lettuce (choice of deer’s tounge, romaine, and/or bibb)
- 2 lbs spinach
- ½ lb arugula
- 1 qt strawberries
- Choice of 4 items: kale, collards, red radishes, and/or bok choi
Saturday, June 5
- Choice of 2 items: kale and/orcollards
- Choice 2 items: scallions and/or french breakfast radishes
- 1 lb swiss chard
- ½ lb arugula
- (Spinach was already out)
- 4 heads of lettuce (choice of green and/or red)
- 1 qt PYO peas
- 1 pt PYO strawberries
And as a bonus, on Monday May 31 and again on Friday June 4, we were able to pick strawberries at the Chesterfield location of our farm (we are members at the Pennington location) for an extra 24 quarts of berries.
So what did we do? See the details below the break.
