Veggie Tales

About a month ago, Alison found out that Woodduck Farms CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) was adding drop offs in our next of Houston. They have been operating for a few years, but the dropoffs were way too far away to make a weekly excursion. For those that don't know CSAs are local farms that you buy a "share" of the crop from and get a regular supply of whatever is ripe and in season. Woodduck also uses organic growing methods, but as with most small farms is not "certified organic" which requires a lengthy and expensive government process.

For us this means we are getting a half share (splitting with Alison) once a week and has certainly upped our veggie intake which is for the better. For example this week we got salad greens, zucchini, little neck squash, a couple other i-don't-know squashes, beets, sugar snap peas, radishes, micro greens, and spring onions. We were getting strawberries but I am afraid that local season is probably over already. All the produce has been fairly good quality and I am thus far very happy. This week I made an awesome salad for Zara and my dinner when John wasn't home with fried zucchini patties. I didn't like beets as a kid but I though the roasted beets were tasty and, amazingly, Zara really liked them and cleaned her plate of those.