Our first pickup seemed like cosmic payback for my earlier complaints about greens. That Sunday, I walked away from the table carrying a bag overstuffed with leaves: two heads of lettuce; two bunches of beets with their greens; and two bunches each of chard and kale. The following week I found myself with two more varieties of kale, another two bunches of beets, a selection of turnips and a full three heads of lettuce. That night I began to question the wisdom of signing my family up for the large share. At least nobody would want for Vitamin A."
Think Inside the Box: The Season Begins - Brookline, MA Patch
Think Inside the Box: The Season Begins - Brookline, MA Patch: "My gradual locavore transformation has been complicated by an inborn desire to plan for and control, well, everything. I have spent a few summers adapting to the seasonality of local farmer’s market produce, and six months of an East Coast farmshare reinforced the preschool axiom: “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.” Now it is time to face both challenges together, as our in-season CSA with Stillman’s Farm begins and our larder’s contents follow the ebb and flow of one farm’s harvest.
Our first pickup seemed like cosmic payback for my earlier complaints about greens. That Sunday, I walked away from the table carrying a bag overstuffed with leaves: two heads of lettuce; two bunches of beets with their greens; and two bunches each of chard and kale. The following week I found myself with two more varieties of kale, another two bunches of beets, a selection of turnips and a full three heads of lettuce. That night I began to question the wisdom of signing my family up for the large share. At least nobody would want for Vitamin A."
Our first pickup seemed like cosmic payback for my earlier complaints about greens. That Sunday, I walked away from the table carrying a bag overstuffed with leaves: two heads of lettuce; two bunches of beets with their greens; and two bunches each of chard and kale. The following week I found myself with two more varieties of kale, another two bunches of beets, a selection of turnips and a full three heads of lettuce. That night I began to question the wisdom of signing my family up for the large share. At least nobody would want for Vitamin A."
