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winter CSA, week 9 (final)
Final share:
- 2 heads lettuce
- 1 bunch tatsoi
- 9 medium carrots
- 1 large yellow onion
- 1 large sweet potato
- 1 pound buckwheat flour
- cheddar cheese
- rhubarb preserves
- lemongrass soap (one of these things is not like the others)
This was the only share of the season to not include apples. (I still have apples; that's fine. I just assumed it was one of their things -- there'd always be apples -- based on the previous eight boxes.)
This was my first CSA experience, so I don't have anything to compare it to other than what people I read have written about theirs. I liked it; I appreciate getting stuff that's in season and local, and that somebody else has figured out what that is and gathered it for me. I mean, when I go to the store the produce section has stuff from all over and I'm not especially dialed into the agricultural cycle, so I'm likely as not to be buying stuff that was shipped in from across the country (or farther). The CSA also introduced me to things I'd never bought or cooked with before.
Of course, the flip side of all that is that you'll like some things more than others, or be able to use larger quantities of some things than others. I could do with a little less celeriac next time. Overall I ended up with quite a bit of grain (flours, corn meal, spelt berries, etc); it'll take a while to go through that. It's good, but we just don't use a lot of it -- if each of those two-pound bags had been one-pound bags, with more of something else to compensate, that would have been fine.
This particular CSA adds processed foods (like jams and relishes) more than I expected, and I put in my feedback that I'd like to see more raw ingredients instead except for when it's stuff I can't make at home myself. I don't have an apple press so I appreciate the cider, but I can make my own salsa.
We've signed up for the weekly spring share, which starts in three weeks.
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