World Peas CSA – Week 11

In this week’s share:

• Bitter melon
• Swiss chard
• Summer squash
• Broccoli
• Potatoes
• Corn
• Eggplant
• Green peppers
• Tomatoes
• McIntosh apples

The apples are so early this year, it’s strange.  Strange, but tasty!

World Peas CSA – Week Six (sort of…)

No produce on the counter photo this week, Gist was kind enough to pick up the CSA and put it away all while I took a nap. Instead I am showing off this sunflower that I grew with my own hands. This is my third year of container gardening on my balcony and, up until now, I have never been able to grow a flower from seed.

This week’s share contained:

World Peas CSA – Week Five

The weather this year is so different from last year and it has really made a difference in the amount of produce we’re receiving.  This week we got:

World Peas CSA – Week Four & Fettuccine with Mustard Greens and Mushrooms

This week’s CSA haul:

• Mustard greens
• Chinese broccoli
• Summer squash
• Slicing cucumbers – the whackadoo yellow kind
• Carrots
• Green onions
• Radishes
• Thai basil
• Blueberries

With some of my CSA haul I made a variation of Michael Chiarello’s Fettuccine with Mustard Greens and Mushrooms. 

World Peas CSA – Week Three

I’m a little late this week!  This weeks CSA haul:

• Water Spinach
• Collard Greens
• Lettuce (left in the swop box)
• Peas!
• Summer Squash
• Beets
• Carrots
• Green Onions
• Cherries

I haven’t been updating what I’ve been doing with all of my veggies because things have been a bit crazy around here.

I am very happy and excited about the long weekend ahead; if you’re in the US, happy 4th! I am looking forward to three days away from computers, phones, and the like, but full of a lot of relaxing, reading, riding my bike, and swimming!

World Peas CSA – Week Two

In this week’s share:

• Lettuce
• Baby Bok Choy
• Turnips
• Kale
• Basil
• Cherries

The milk is from the dairy.

World Peas CSA – Week One

Finally! YAY!

This week we got:

• Pea Tendrils
• Chinese Broccoli
• Swiss Chard
• Lettuce
• Garlic Scapes
• Radishes
• Mint (which I left in the swop box, my mint plant is double-OC)
• Strawberries
• And of course I picked up some milk at the dairy!

This year, for the first time,  World Peas is offering a small share which is what we signed up for.  This filled up the small (1/2 bushel) box pretty well, so I am interested to see what our yield is as the season progresses.

Just ten more days…

…Until my CSA starts. I can’t wait!

I love the WorldPEAS CSA and if you are in the Merrimack Valley or Boston area, I encourage you to check it out. 18 weeks of delicious produce, some of it ethnic and unique to WorldPEAS.

WorldPEAS’s parent organization, the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project assists people with limited resources, many of them immigrants and some of them urban teens, with beginning to farm in Massachusetts. NESFP provides training, support and a market (the CSA and Lowell Farmer’s Market) to the new farmers, creating local, sustainable economic development.

Plus, they’ve introduced me to such delights as ground cherries, pigweed, spey cabbage, thai eggplant, and sweet potato greens!

Apple Butter

I love this recipe. It’s easy and makes a deep, dark and rich apple butter. I was wondering what to do with the many, many, many CSA apples in the fridge when I stumbled across Lolly’s Food for Fall post – apple butter it would be!

Potato Leek Soup

I love potato leek soup – it combines all of the comfort and warmth of potatoes and soup, and what you’re left with is a big mug of win. It’s also a super-easy and quick weeknight meal, perfect for those cold fall and winter days when you just want to come home and curl up with your Snuggie and a good book…