CSA Week 1

Chris and I have been looking at CSAs for over a year, not super seriously, but decided to take the leap and join the Fall CSA being offered by a farmer that has a stand at our local Farmer's Market.

For those of you that don't know, CSA stands for community supported agriculture, and when you participate you're essentially buying a share in the farm. It's like the stock market, it can be risky, because you pay upfront and always have the chance of the crops failing due to things like poor weather or insect infestation. We shop at our market almost every Saturday, and thought this would be a great chance for us to get creative with cooking because someone else is picking out your produce for the week. It should also open our eyes to things we might not use frequently, like kale or collard greens.

I'm going to document what we get each week at our pickup, and hopefully write a post at the end of each week that details what we used everything for.

Here's our Week 1 haul:

• 1 giant tomato
• 1 acorn squash
• 7 potatoes
• 3 onions
• 4 apples
• 3 nectarines
• 4 ears of corn
• 2 green peppers
• 1 red pepper
• 2 eggplants
• 12 jalapenos
• 1 bunch kale
• 3 handfuls green beans

I think we should be able to go through almost everything, the jalapenos may be tricky and in all likelihood may just get sliced and frozen for salsa useage later, but I'm trying to make a plan for everything else.