Our First CSA Drop-off

A few months ago I heard about a local CSA on the radio. CSA stands for Community-supported agriculture. Essentially, they are a way to support local agriculture and get fresh produce (and meats, poultry, eggs, and dairy of you want) that hasn't lost vitamins due to being off the vine too long. Members of a CSA pay at the onset of the growing season for a share of the coming harvest. Once harvesting begins, they receive weekly shares of produce.

After speaking with my husband about it, we decided it would be worth the approx $22 per week to be members and receive fresh local produce delivered to our door. Since there are only 2 of us, I signed up for a "small" portion and received my first delivery today:

I was warned last week that the lettuces were doing well, so I needed to expect lots of them. One of the things I've been most excited about is getting new types of fruits and vegetables that I need to learn how to cook. So after receiving my produce today, I spent some time looking for new recipes to incorporate all of them.

Brothy Chinese Noodles

I found this Chinese noodle recipe which will use up the bok choy and green onions. In fact, I'll only need to buy a few ingredients, as I have most of them already.


I love spinach, but usually only eat it in a salad. Since I've got plenty of lettuce already, I decided I wanted to cook the spinach. Is it sad that I've never done that before? I found a nice simple recipe for cooked spinach, and that will use up the 2 big bunches of it that we received

Yummy cooked spinach

As for the lettuces, I will be making one (or a few) of my famous salads.

I ended up getting the default veggies this time, but this weekend I can actually go online and customize my delivery for next week.

If you are interested in joining a CSA or buying more of your foods locally, check out Local Harvest if you live in the USA.