12 posts tagged “fruit”

The Sustainable Table is a great resource for eating locally. Visit this link for a chart of what is in season & when by state. This is a really great resource for knowing when certain produce is plentiful and therefore ... cheaper? Hopefully? Hopefully it means the produce is coming from more local sources, but depending on where you shop, even if apples are in season in Illinois, Jewel is probably still carrying them from Washington...

Quicklink: Illinois Chart
                Wisconsin Chart

Zucchini – used with previous week’s eggplant & zucchini for a lasagna

Cucumber - on salads

Avocado – guacamole

Tomato – guacamole

Salad greens – Salads!

Spinach – nothing yet, will probably blanch and freeze, otherwise, salad

Broccoli – will cut up for veggie tray for guests Saturday night

Kale – gave to a friend

Potatoes – nothing yet

Onion – used in lasagna

Carrot – will put on veggie tray for guests Saturday night

Grapes, ate them in 24 hrs. yum!

Peaches – ate them whole or cut them up and eaten with plain yogurt

Pears – cut into slices and eaten as afternoon snacks at work

Young Coconut – opened with a pick and a hammer, drank juice & ate meat with a spoon

Honeydew – going to cut up for breakfast tomorrow

Mango – for Saturday morning smoothie

Banana – one eaten, one for Saturday morning smoothie

Oranges – will be juiced for Saturday morning smoothie

Apples – brought to work for afternoon snacks

The only things we really had to buy this week for meals in addition was cheese for the lasagna, yogurt, cheese for quesadillas and sandwiches and turkey meat for sandwiches. I made a loaf of bread in the breadmaker and we had everything else we needed already. I need to post a picture of the lasagna yet - my SO made it and it is fantastic!

Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a ... model of food production, sales and distribution aimed at both

increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. It is also a method for small-scale commercial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and even milk or meat products in some cases. (source: wikipedia)

    * Please visit localharvest.org to do a simple search by zip code to find CSAs in your area.
    * Thank you to True Nature Foods in Chicago for hosting a pickup spot and being an all around great place!
    * Thank you to King's Hill Farms for providing me with year-round delicious organic fruits and vegetables in an unconventional, flexible, delicious share each week!

King's Hill Farms located in Wisconsin, operates a non-traditional CSA. They go year round by getting fruit and vegetables from organic farms all over the world when they are not in their growing season. Im guessing that they probably supplement even during their growing season when necessary. I realize this defeats the localist ideal of a CSA but in the midwest with such a short growing season, we would be importing fruit and vegetables from elsewhere anyway, I reason. Sure I could make different choices as far as how FAR these fruits and vegetables would be travelling to get to me, but I prefer to go this route with the farm.

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Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a ... model of food production, sales and distribution aimed at both increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. It is also a method for small-scale commercial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and even milk or meat products in some cases. (source: wikipedia)

• Please visit localharvest.org to do a simple search by zip code to find CSAs in your area.
• Thank you to King's Hill Farms for providing me with year-round delicious organic fruits and vegetables in an unconventional, flexible, delicious share each week!
• Thank you to True Nature Foods in Chicago for hosting a pickup spot and being an all around great place!

This week's bounty:

• Rainbow Chard
• Spinach
• Romaine
  

  CSA: Mango from Mexico
• Fancy Salad Mix
• Snow Peas! yum
• Three bananas
• Four apples
• 2 citrus
• 3 potatoes
• 3 carrots
• An onion
• A tomato
• Broccoli
• Young coconut
  
• A mango                      
  

Total: $22.00, all organic

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Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a ... model of food production, sales and distribution aimed at both increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. It is also a method for small-scale commercial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and even milk or meat products in some cases. (source: wikipedia)

• Please visit localharvest.org to do a simple search by zip code to find CSAs in your area.
• Thank you to King's Hill Farms for providing me with year-round delicious organic fruits and vegetables in an unconventional, flexible, delicious share each week!
• Thank you to True Nature Foods in Chicago for hosting a pickup spot and being an all around great place!

This week's bounty:

• Kale
• Spinach
• Romaine lettuce
• Bag of Fancy Salad Mix
• 4 gargantuan bananas
• Celery
• 2 citrus
• Onion
• 4 carrots
• Cucumber
• 3 apples
• 4 potatoes
• Amaaaaaaaaaaaazing strawberries
  

Total: $22.00, all organic

We paid extra for "Fruit Surprise" this week:

• 4 insanely huge beautiful delicious apples
• 4 gorgeous pears
• A pineapple

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Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a ... model of food production, sales and distribution aimed at both increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. It is also a method for small-scale commercial farmers and gardeners to have a successful, small-scale closed market. CSA’s focus is usually on a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables, sometimes also flowers, fruits, herbs and even milk or meat products in some cases. (source: wikipedia)

• Please visit localharvest.org to do a simple search by zip code to find CSAs in your area.
• Thank you to King's Hill Farms for providing me with year-round delicious organic fruits and vegetables in an unconventional, flexible, delicious share each week!
• Thank you to True Nature Foods in Chicago for hosting a pickup spot and being an all around great place!