CSA basket: Week 2

Today I received our second basket from Bryson Farms. Here's a list of what we received:

1. Mixed baby salad greens
2. Micro-greens (x2)
3. Cauliflower
4. Rapini
5. Purple, yellow, and red carrots
6. Golden beets
7. Fingerling potatoes
8. Honey boat delicata squash
9. Kale
10. Garlic
11. Hakurei turnips
12. Milan turnip
13. Something that looks like white carrots (carrots, or parsnip, or turnip, or radish?)

I'm super happy that we got more salad greens, and I'm looking forward to the cauliflower. We haven't eaten last week's turnips yet, though, so I'm feeling a little buried in them. We're having some people over for dinner tomorrow, though, so I'll look for a recipe for them. Maybe in a mash? I'm planning on roasting a bunch of root veggies as well; should be good! We're serving roast beef as the main!

I'll have to take a taste of the white vegetable to see if I can tell what they are. If not, I'll send an e-mail to the farm and ask!

Bryson Farms CSA

This week we signed up for a new CSA.

What's a CSA, you ask?

CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Wikipedia describes CSA as:

"...a form of an alternative food network, ... (CSA) is a socio-economic model of agriculture and food distribution. A CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farming operation where the growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. CSAs usually consist of a system of weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables and fruit, in a vegetable box scheme, and sometimes includes dairy products and meat." 

In practice, what this means is that we make a weekly payment to our CSA that they use to invest in their farm. In exchange, we receive a percentage of the farm's harvest.

What about Bryson Farms CSA?

Bryson Farms is located in western Quebec. It's an organic farm that specializes in heirloom produce. Unlike most CSA's in our neck of the woods, Bryson Farms is able to continue delivering their produce to customers year round by using a combination of fresh, storage vegetables (like potatoes and beets), preserved produce (like frozen squash puree and roasted tomatoes) and greenhouse produce. Every Friday, we put our camping cooler on our front porch (complete with ice packs in the summer and blankets in the winter), and the good people from the Farm transform it into a veritable cornucopia by the time we get home from work (or at least that's the idea!). We took our first delivery this Friday. Take a look at what we got: