2010 CSA with Tantre Farms - Week 1

The one thing I've been looking forward to all winter long is our CSA to start up again. What is a CSA? It is Community Supported Agriculture where members of the community support their local farms by purchasing fresh produce from them. A CSA can be set up in a lot of different ways. Bob and I signed on for another year with Tantre Farm over in Chelsea, MI. The ways ours works is every Saturday morning we go the farmers market and pick up a box of seasonal produce. It's already packed and ready for us to go, all we have to do is figure out what everything is and what the heck we (OK I'm) going to make with it. A CSA with Tantre is not for the faint of heart. You get a lot of veggies. I mean veggies coming out of every corner of your fridge veggies. Sometimes even though Bob and I eat a plant based diet, it's hard for us to finish everything. And this year we don't have the rabbits, so the pressure is on.

But with the CSA I really feel like summer has arrived and I can begin to take part in the community again. My winter hermit ways are no more. The cool thing about Tantre is that it is organic and they don't require you to work on the farm. There are a couple of optional "work days" which we'll probably go to this year, but over all we just sit back and watch the magic happen.

I'll do my best to break down our weekly shares for you for a couple of reasons:

• To prove that two people can eat this many veggies.
• To show that local food is awesome!

Week 1 was pretty exciting because, well it was the first week and I'd been waiting a long time. We've enjoyed:

• Radishes, turnips, lots of lettuce, lots of spinach, asparagus, spring onions, garlic scapes, more spinach, random greens, chives, did I mention spinach?

So far it's just been a salad type of week. That's pretty much what we do with the first couple of week's shares.Tonight, I did get creative and make garlic scape pesto and tossed in in with pasta, fresh tomatoes, and asparagus. Nothing exact, just delicious pasta goodness.

Are you wondering how you can get in on this CSA goodness? Head over to Local Harvest, type in your zip code and away you go.