Landisdale Farm CSA report, weeks 20 and 21

Saturday, November 01, 2008

With one week left in the CSA season at Landisdale Farm, I have two shares here to catch up on: today’s and last Saturday’s.  I was in the Bay Area over the last weekend - it really has to be one of the easiest places to eat local: everywhere you look is locally grown produce, plus they have locally made olive oil and all sorts of other goodies.  There was also a pit stop in Omaha, Nebraska.  I expected to be able to find locally grown meat there easier than anything else, but I spoke to someone who had to have his organic, grassfed turkey flown in from another state.  It definitely makes you appreciate the easy access we have here in Philadelphia not only to locally grown produce, but to locally grown meat.

Last week’s CSA share included: 2 heads of lettuce, 3 small heads of broccoli, six yams, two onions, seven carrots, eight pears, five bell peppers, and five hot peppers.  Oh, and one bunch of kale - I’m told it was thrown in because people are sick to death of lettuce.  This week’s share includes:

• 2 giant heads of lettuce
• 2 bunches of kale
• 3 miniature butternut squash
• 3 miniature Romenesco cauliflower
• 3 onions
• 2 medium cabbage
• 8 apples
• 13 carrots

As usual, the lettuce will go right into the compost heap.  No one in my house is overly fond of salads...and no one outside my house seems to want it.  And I’ll add this kale to all the other bunches of kale we’ve been getting (blanches, frozen).  The cabbage will probably get frozen, as well.

I will likely use the cauliflower to test out a new recipe as a possibility for this year’s Thanksgiving extravaganza.

Since soup weather is finally upon us, some of the carrots and cabbage might end up being soup.