Farm Season's Over

Back in June, I explained how I signed up for my second season at a local, organic CSA farm. That's meant weekly deliveries of so many fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs, I literally didn't always have a chance to finish them each week. (Anything that ended up wilting before I could get to it was provided to the grateful squirrels in the backyard.)

Well, yesterday was the last delivery of the season, which means I'll be back to foraging for my own produce at Costco, Whole Foods, and Stop & Shop. At least, I will once I actually finish the stuff that came in this last batch.


Clockwise from the bottom left, those are sweet potatoes, yellow potatoes, butternut squash, rutabaga, watermelon radish, kohlrabi, broccoli, kale, carrots, and red cabbage.

This is the pretty much the same variety, and amount, that I've been getting every week. As you can imagine, it's been tricky figuring out recipes for some of the funky new things I've never heard of before. (Kohlrabi... really? The stuff looks like a cross-pollination experiment gone wrong, but it's great in a stir fry.)

I eventually settled on some general rules of thumb: If it can be eaten raw, it goes in a salad; if it's greenish, it gets sauteed with EVOO and garlic; if it's solid and tuber- or squash-like, it gets roasted/baked. Mario Batali, I'm not, but these are way better options than just saying, "Nope, never tried that before. I ain't gonna eat it."

So here's a big thank you to Golden Earthworm Farms for doing all the hard work so shmoes like me can have ridiculously-delicious and healthful foods. I'll definitely be signing up again next year.

To find a CSA farm in your area, check LocalHarvest.org

And have a Happy Thanksgiving, all.