tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842642997957311455.post4613882894155802322..comments2023-10-30T05:47:42.560-04:00Comments on Money Changes Things: Are CSA's Right for You?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2842642997957311455.post-1624889436263901382007-04-24T00:10:00.000-04:002007-04-24T00:10:00.000-04:00My CSA experience mirrors yours. For a couple year...My CSA experience mirrors yours. For a couple years I had a half-share in a lovely organic farm, and reluctantly gave it up when my vegetable-eating kid left for college. The idea of having to tackle a half-basket solo every week made no sense.<BR/><BR/>The good part: Pages of great recipes would come in each week's basket. And they would predict what was going to be in next week’s basket, so that was some help. It was good to learn to roast and enjoy all sorts of vegetables I had avoided or never noticed before. (Florence fennel? Rutabagas?) The bad part: an over-abundance of heirloom beets!<BR/><BR/>Now I shop at a local farmers’ market each week from April-December and have a tiny vegetable garden of my own in the summer. I relish the unlimited choices. I’m still glad to have had the experience of cooking whatever was picked fresh that day, with no concerns about what to shop for or what to cook. The answer to “what’s for dinner” revealed itself when it arrived on my doorstep. I wasted so little time (or money) in stores compared to now. Pretty simple! But obviously confining, too.<BR/><BR/>I love reading your blog. I would have run out of topics to write about long long ago, but yet you keep finding interesting things to cover on a daily basis. Thanks for doing this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com