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CSA Share ‘09, Week 25 (Final Share)

December 10, 2009

Yesterday we picked up our final Roxbury Farm share for 2009. We were there a little early, so although the bins were set out there was no one else around. It was kind of a lonely ending to what I felt was a good year, CSA-wise. Especially since our pick-up location is changing in 2010, it seemed wrong to just take my stuff and go, without saying good-bye to the host of the site or any other members. I will be signing up again next year, though, and it will be interesting to see what our larger pick-up location holds.

This week some of the produce was pre-packed in (biodegradable) bags, which I thought was unusual until I got them home. They look like they went straight from the earth into the bag, without any kind of washing step in between. My carrots have clumps of dirt hanging off of them, and looking through the bag I initially mistook them for sweet potatoes — that’s how much of their orange color is obscured by dirt. I feel a tiny bit silly snarking about the dirt on organic, farm share vegetables… but it’s a lot of dirt. And a lot of carrots, actually!

We received some more sweet potatoes, a lot of carrots, an enormous batch of kale, an onion, a butternut squash, and a huge celery root (celeriac).

I’m going to wash and chop the kale, then freeze it to use a bit at a time over the winter. It’s just too much for a single recipe now, even though I do love it in my Slow Cooker Vegetable Barley Soup. I may do the same to the butternut squash, since it doesn’t seem very hardy and I don’t want this one to rot out on me like the ones from last week. I’m foisting the celeriac on my parents — my mom likes it. (Sorry, Dad!) As for the sweet potatoes and carrots, I don’t even know where to start. Maybe I need to invite people over to eat, and only serve Roasted Carrots, by Pastor Ryan and Sweet Potato & Buttermilk Corn Bread.

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