Week 6

I've been an extremely delinquent blogger. Things have been crazy at work and I was away last weekend. But, I'm back! It's a shame I missed last week's farm share blog because it was the coolest share yet. Enterprise Farm did an experiment with an "Emergency Farm Share" that relied solely on local producers in the case of a weather/delivery emergency where they couldn't pick up from southern producers. We got some funky root vegetables like parsnips and celeriac, sweet potatoes, and even baby spinach. It was awesome, the produce was so much better than the gross tomatoes we've been getting from Florida. We're starting a bit of a stockpile of root vegetables, but so far nothing has gone to waste except for 1 little moldy tangerine that Ryder threw out! I probably would have eaten it just to be able to say nothing has gone bad... Perhaps some things really do turn out for the best.

Anyway, this week it was still a mostly local share. We got:

• Red Onion (Conventional), Long Plain Farm, Whately, Mass.
• Baby Arugula, Equinox Farm, Sheffield, Mass.
• Baby Spinach, Equinox Farm, Sheffield, Mass.
• Apples, Bashista Orchards, Southampton, Mass.
• Beauregard Sweet Potatoes, Eastern Carolina Organics, NC
• Carrots, Lake Side Organics, Hadley, Mass. (one EXTREMELY large one--the biggest I've ever seen in my life)
• Beets, Winter Moon, Hadley, Mass.
• Grapefruits, Florida
• Box of plum tomatoes, Florida (gross! please stop sending us these, Enterprise, until it's actually tomato season!)

Last night we slummed and made nachoes, but I'm going on a health/cleanse kick and am trying to start an "Anti-Inflammatory Diet" where I eliminate all processed foods, dairy, and gluten from my diet, among other random things. Check it out here and wish me luck. I'll try to post some of my adventures. Of course, I will make an exception for our Siberia party this Saturday.