For only $22 ...

So while I anxiously wait for my garden to produce an abundance of fresh veggies, I signed up with a co-op to get a weekly basket of fresh local organic produce. It will be interesting to see what i get each week as the season changes. I'm excited to try cooking with some new things like Swiss chard...


I was a bit disappointed at first when I went to pick up the basket this morning. Instead of the expected rustic heap of dirt-crusted (fresh out of the ground) produce, I got a nicely cleaned (some packaged) and organized collection that looked like I just shopped at an organic foods market. Plus bananas do not grow down here :)

But for the most part, I am pleased with the selection (that is mostly local): a bunch of Swiss chard, a large head of romaine, one avocado, one onion, two zucchini, a couple heads of broccoli, a bunch of carrots, a package of California shiitake mushrooms, two pieces of fresh ginger, a lb of California strawberries, and a variety of local citrus...oh and 5 bananas from Ecuador. I would say a least a $25-30 value from an Organic produce market, and I paid $22. I could have gone without the citrus...being that we currently have a backyard of tress full of ripe fruit... and the mushrooms. yikes! We are not mushroom fans... suggestions welcomed.

Until the next pick-up, K