CSA Report: Dancing Hen Farms Week One

Thursday, June 11, 2009

After many weeks of great anticipation (at least on my part), the Dancing Hen Farms CSA season kicked off today. I trekked up to the pick-up location at the Arch Street United Methodist Church during my lunch hour and found the boxes full of farm fresh goodies stacked on a table in the chapel. I quickly transferred the bags of lettuce, heads of joi choi and other goodies into my grocery bag and walked home, carrying the small, purple basil plant that had been at the very bottom of the box.

You can see everything that was in the box in the picture above (you can check out a larger version of the picture, complete with labels, over on Flickr). It included two heads of merlot lettuce, one bag of salad mix, one bag of baby arugula, a bunch of radishes, three heads of joi choi, a pint of sugar snap peas (they are so, so sweet), a bunch of scallions, a cluster of leafy kale, a bunch of dill and that little basil plant (according to the farm newsletter, it is a Red Robin Opal Basil plant. It smells delicious).

All in all, a very satisfying and delicious share. It’s got me excited for the weeks to come!