LARGE:
2 bunch carrot yoder- Flour’s investigating the for me
2 bunch beets zehr- scrawny units, likely going into a stew
1 pc. Asst squash zehr- round delicata striped
5 lb. white fingerlings stephen stoll
5 lb. onion, cooking yoder
1 small chicken, frozen KEG combo
Honey, 250 ml. fisher
1 hd. Cabbage – late flat dutch yoder- no kidding it was bigger than Flour’s head.
So I went and picked up my last share of the season. I didn’t have class so I was able to go after dinner, which was a nice change from the usual rush hour madness road rage experience. I guess this is what a regular day could be like. I didn’t realise how much I had missed my market visits this past summer. As the local growing season draws to an end, excluding green house farming of course, every year there is always a couple of new food related items that really stood out. Last year was the best corn, year before was peach, and grapes before that. I missed that opportunity this year. However, I did find that with the CSA program, I was able to participate, though near its end, in the bounty of the local farms. I don’t think there was a food item that really stood out this year. The CSA program however did introduce me to many new items, such as huckleberries, delicata squash, kuri squash, and fresh beans. The ability of the farm produce to react so differently to the same cooking methods, such as the potatoes, carrots, and corn was really interesting. The different coloured potatoes had my sis call me asking if there was something wrong with the spuds, which was rather comical. I recall a conversation with my aunt regarding food products in the China markets where they had to colour their carrots orange, because they looked yellow. Then of course no one bought them, knowing they were not orange in colour. How ironic if they had been selling yellow carrots, a variety that seems to be hard to find here, that people interpreted to be fake food. Unfortunately, with the recent stories flowing out of China with regards to fake foods, one can’t help but be concerned about what one eats. Rational? Who knows. But trust in our food supply chain is very important for me, and so I am grateful that we have a strong local program that does in some small way connect the consumer to the farmer.
