We took our second delivery today from One Straw Farm, the farm supplying the produce in our CSA (or however you describe that relationship), and this one consisted entirely of green stuff.

This week’s haul:

• Arugula
• Radishes
• Collard greens
• Garlic scapes
• Chard
• Green leaf
• Romaine
• Spinach
• Mustard greens

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This year, my lovely wife and I joined a local CSA – the fancy acronym for community supported agriculture. Joining a CSA is one of the ways we’ve considered going green while saving green and this was the first year we’ve done it. We went with One Straw Farm, a CSA located in Maryland with a drop point just a few miles from our house. Our goal in doing this is to eat better, both in the quality/diversity of our food and in lowering the impact we have on our environment, and learn how to cook more. It’s a bonus that we can support a local business.

Today, I picked up our first delivery which consisted of:

• One pint of strawberries
• One bunch of rainbow chard
• One bunch of beets
• One bunch of Swiss chard
• One bunch of garlic sprouts
• One bunch of broccoli
• One bunch of kale
• One head of lettuce

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