More things to be stupidly excited about

[siercia]

A few years ago, we did a CSA for many of our summer vegetables. This was great... I loved getting random stuff to figure out how to cook, and the veggies we get were quite quite good.

Reading last week's food section of the paper this morning, there was an article about a farm that does a traditional veggie CSA, but also does a MEAT CSA. Once a month, you get 10 or 20 pounds of meat from their farm, a variety of chicken, pork, beef and lamb cuts.

We don't get to start until July, because their winter share was all sold out. And we'll have to carve time out of our weekend once a month to go pick it up in JP, but I think it's going to be totally worth it.

Now, I should go see if Lorac is interested in splitting a veggie share, or at least co-ordinating so we can share in the pickup duties.

ETA: For locals who might be interested, the share is coming from Stillman's Farm. Meat pickups are once a month in JP (Saturdays) or Brookline (Sundays). Veggie pickups are in a number of places around Boston on different days.

Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Can you give me the info for both of those? Also, if you and Lorac want, I'd be interested in doing a veggie share as well. (Though the farmers market right outside my building at work makes it easy to do fresh stuff, its not as cheap probably as the farmshare.)

[rawrin.livejournal.com]

What is a CSA? I'm betting you're not talking about databases (http://www.csa.com/aboutcsa/company.php). :)

[skreeky]

I wouldn't call it "stupidly excited." =) I just finished reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and it really got to me. A lot. I've been meaning to post about it.

I didn't realize the folks in the article were the folks from my old JP farmers' market. That is so awesome, and we are so getting farm shares. Thanks for the pointers!

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Nav and I are experimenting with a half-share of veggie from a CSA this year. I didn't know there were meat ones. I suspect that it being in JP may make it more trouble than it's worth for us. Good to know about though.

I'm somewhat scared about how this will all work, and hope we don't drown in caarots.

[gimmeapony.livejournal.com]

I love CSAs! We've done the Farm School and I am thinking about doing The Food Project this year (they have pickups at the JP farmer's market, just like your place.) I've always wondered if a local place did meat CSAs. I'd love to do that, too, but we eat very little meat (ex vegetarian and all) and I don't think we could get through 10 pounds in a month.

[bigmeanie.livejournal.com]

Oh! I'll have to see if I can find a CSA up here.. or, at least, find one that delivers!

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

(Goes. Looks.)

Damn! That looks good! Though I'd have to learn to cook a bunch of different things. (I have no idea what to do with kholrabbi. If it's not a Jewish pastor with eye makeup.)