{"id":912,"date":"2013-06-24T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=912"},"modified":"2013-06-25T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T14:27:40","slug":"my-csa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"My CSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CSA\"<\/a>This year, I joined a CSA for the first time. \u00c2\u00a0CSA stands for community supported agriculture. \u00c2\u00a0A CSA is an organization that connects its usually urban members with a local farm. \u00c2\u00a0Members typically pay a fee and are required to put in some level of volunteer work.<\/p>\n

I choose the Greenwood Heights CSA<\/a> which offers members a weekly or bi-weekly vegetable share, egg share, and\/or fruit share. \u00c2\u00a0Since it was my first go and I was unsure how quickly I could cook through the bounty, I opted for bi-weekly shares of veggies and eggs. \u00c2\u00a0I would have loved to have had a fruit share, but all slots were filled by the time I registered. \u00c2\u00a0Bread and salmon shares have also now been added, but I decided to stick with the veggies and eggs.
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This last Saturday was my volunteer day (all members need to do one) and my second share pick-up. \u00c2\u00a0Any fears I had about crazy militant hippies have been set aside. \u00c2\u00a0My fellow volunteers were fine normal people excited about bringing home some fresh vegetables. \u00c2\u00a0We \u00c2\u00a0made small talk as we refilled the vegetable bins depleted by the other members throughout the morning.<\/p>\n

The produce this was week was beautiful–in aromas and colors. The full green smell of fresh veggies is incomparable to the stale smell at too many grocery stores. \u00c2\u00a0Bright colors. The chard<\/a>, in particular, was vivid. Chard is a vegetable I’ve never bothered to look at much less cook. I should have. Richly colored red, yellow, and orange steams vine their way in to rich green leaves. \u00c2\u00a0The flavor is a little mild, but nothing that salt, onion, garlic, and maybe a little bacon can’t fix.<\/p>\n

A perk of volunteering is being able to take a split of any leftovers. \u00c2\u00a0My fridge is stocked with veggies for the week. \u00c2\u00a0Already, chard has been grilled, salads made, garlic scapes mixed into burgers, and kimchi set-up to ferment. \u00c2\u00a0I can’t wait to see the treats coming out of the ground in two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, I joined a CSA for the first time. \u00c2\u00a0CSA stands for community supported agriculture. \u00c2\u00a0A CSA is an organization that connects its usually urban members with a local farm. \u00c2\u00a0Members typically pay a fee and are required to put in some level of volunteer work. I choose the Greenwood Heights CSA which offers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[199],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-csa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatcooklive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}