Community Supported Agriculture

My wife and I joined a local CSA (community supported agriculture) almost a year ago.  We joined up with Babe Farms, we get a bi-weekly box of fruits and vegetables for $20.  There are many benefits with getting involved with your local CSA.  You are supporting local farmers in your community, you are getting the freshest produce possible, it is healthy, and it exposes you to different seasonal ingredients that you may not have cooked with before.  Each box of produce we get comes with a newsletter with a list of what's in our box, and suggestions and recipes on how to you use our fresh ingredients.  If you are interested in finding participating farms near you, checkout www.localharvest.org.  If you are in the Central Coast area and are interested in using Babe Farms, you can reach them at (805) 925-4144.

Our box this week included beets, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, fennel, leaf lettuces, parsley root, purple and yellow beans, and strawberries.