I’d like to show off what I bring home from the CSA each week, so this is the first post in my CSA Bounty Series. Mostly eye candy, this is going to be my record of the 2010 Hellgate CSA season.
Our vegetables are organic and the fruit is “ecologically grown”, which means it’s not quite organic, so they do their best to use alternate techniques (like integrated pest management) to control pests, weeds, and fungus. In NY state, it’s pretty much impossible to grow tree fruit truly organic, due to the overly wet summers.
Strawberries! One of the best parts of the early CSA season. They were delicious. Note that past tense, “were”… these strawberries came from our vegetable farmer, so they were organic.
Green leaf lettuce, one of my favorites. I ate some of it tonight and it was lovely.
Tarragon, my new favorite herb. I use it liberally in chicken salad (I’ll share the recipe sometime soon – it’s fantastic). This was particularly gorgeous tarragon.
Leeks – beautiful (and delicious – I’ve already eaten them).
Bags of jerusalem artichokes. Not very photogenic, I’ll admit, but I’m grateful that the farm pre-bagged them for us.
Gorgeous collard greens. I didn’t choose these (the choice was these greens or the leeks), but glad I got a shot of them. I expect they were delicious.
That’s it! I can’t wait to see what we get in week two…
