home :: in season

Each week, for the last seventeen weeks, our sun porch has served as a little hub for food that is organic, local, fresh and community-supported.  Every Friday a dozen or so boxes of just-picked vegetables and fruits have been carried to our home by our CSA farmer and stacked on the porch for members in the area to collect.  Each week a selection of the farm's bounty.  Each week a great variety of amazingly fresh local food.  Each week a sampling of exactly that which is in season. 

Just one week remains.  I know that as I sweep the porch after the last box is picked up next week, I'll also have to sweep away the great denial I have about the growing season really coming to an end.  And about the trucked-thousands-of-miles lifeless selection of 'fresh' vegetables that will grace my plate in the months ahead.  And about the very long winter that is right around the corner.   

Comments

[suzie sews]

Oh there is such sadness in this post...What a thrilling time you have had with all those boxes of goodness
Suzie Sews

[Stefani]

Resolved: that next year I will save more, put up more, can more so that I don't have to rely to heavily on those "trucked a thousand miles" items. Gorgeous little turnips. When I was little I imagined them as people, being yanked up by their hair :-)

[Elizabeth]

Really fantastic photo, once again.
Love,
E

[Angie]

Nice photo! The summer went by way too fast- I'll be missing my trips to the farmer's market.

[Amy]

Well, there are joys and challenges in all climates and for all years, aren't there. Like Stefani, I resolved to buy extra local produce when it was plentiful this year and freeze it (canning is too scary for me) - and it has worked well -- frozen spinach, chard, carrots, and tomatoes have carried me through this rough fall -- now the cool season veggies are just starting up and should carry us through til March!