Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Greens, Anyone?

We are officially hippy-dippy.

We just picked up our very first share of farm veggies. I parked my Subaru among the other Subarus and the Priuses adorned with rainbow bumper stickers and walked my Dansko-clog-wearing self right on in. Now all I need is a baby in a sling and a kayak on my roof and I'll be completely incognito.

Since it was the first day, we went as a family of three so that we could all get the lay of the land. And it was a good thing too--I'm not sure how just one of us could watch Tai and gather veggies at the same time. It was very crowded and Tai was toddling all over the place, inside and out, visiting the chickens and pausing only to ask for more free samples of hummus.

The eventual plan was to be that I pick Tai up from daycare on Wednesdays and then he and I go to the farm together. Now I'm not so sure that will work, but I'm willing to try. There's always the ergo.

As for the veggies themselves, we came away with lettuce, baby salad greens, braising greens, bok choy, radishes, and turnips. I sure hope Tai learns to like salad!

2 comments:

tanya@motherwearblog said...

From your description of the farm, it sounds like we'll be seeing you there!

The U-pick crops are the best, and some of the first are the strawberries, which Tai will love picking and eating, and then the sugar snap peas - yum! We also pick a ton of basil to make pesto which lasts through the winter. I took me a few years to figure out how to use a lot of the produce, especially since it comes in waves (suddenly you have 20 tomatoes!) but I'm figuring it out.

Unknown said...

We went to our CSA, Common Thread, yesterday. I guess this is what you do here in Hamilton. We also ended up with enough lettuces for Charlie to eat salad for life.