Organic Food

Now that the  (half) marathon is over.  It’s time to turn our blogging attention elsewhere.  From now on, the blog will be about more than just running.  I’m hoping to start including more information on other exercise (ultimate frisbee), food, and whatever other things we can think of.

I started getting a crop share this summer, and I want to post regularly about what I’m getting in it.  For those who don’t know, a crop share is when you pay a farmer a set amount, and then he (in my case he and his family) provides us with a box of veggies each week.  You never know what you are going to get, it is just whatever is harvested from the farm that week.  Our crop share is from an organic Mennonite farm 30 minutes south east of London. Crop shares are a great bargain.  We pay a little more than $10/week and we get a half bushel of food.  It’s an excellent way to get a variety of vegetables and a good challenge to eat them all each week.

Last week we got lettuce, radishes, boc choi, rhubarb, asparagus, potatoes, a small bag of salad greens and some other green leafy thing that tasted good with pasta.

This week, more lettuce, more radish, asparagus, rhubarb, collard green, broccoli rabe and green onions.

Quite a good mix.  It is fun to try to eat it all.  Last night I used the broccoli rabe to make a curry with chick peas.  Pretty good!