British Expatriate Network

A few months ago I joined a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) with a 40 week share of both vegetables and fruit. Basically around 90 people pay up front for a couple who own a farm to buy crops and grow them. Then when the stuff grow it's all shared between us all depending on whether you paid for a full or half share. On a thursday afternoon I go pick it up. All the food is fresh as can be, and idiotically cheap (it works out to $15.50 per week.) It also means you eat alot of things you normally wouldn't bother to, and alot of stuff you've never heard of. It also guarantees you eat good stuff every week, and really helps plan what you are going to eat. The farm has a root cellar and they also ferment (pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, etc.) so I am getting food from June 3rd through March on a half share. So far we've had some great stuff and lots of it.

This is my farm - http//www.nativeofferings.com/

Last week we got -

Veg
2 heads Lettuce
1 bunch Japanese Radishes
1 bunch cilantro
1 bunch garlic greens
1 bunch basil
1 bunch kale (it's a really funky variety - not like the ones in the grocery store)
1 napa cabbage
1 Qt peas with edible shells
1 bunch beets

Fruit
Pint of blackberries
2 pints of raspberries
5 lbs sweet cherries
Qt of red currants


Can't wait for the real stuff - root veggies, tomatoes, fruit off the trees etc.

Anyone else doing anything similar? I know MacZ lives near a guy who grows mushrooms (which makes me endlessly jealous by the way).

fucking hippy.

Commie hippy at that

You should see me roller-disco.

Great idea - wonder if they do that round here. We eat about 90% organic food at home now so this might be a good idea.

Best I have seen was the Organic Growers Club at the University - you can put an order in for stuff and they'll deliver it to your office each week. They only do this for staff and students though, so as not to be seen competing with local organic growers.

They do it everywhere. D Here's the Oregon listing.

http//www.pacsac.org/AlphaListing.html

Yeah, but those are ...special mushrooms. Not the kind of thing you want to have for breakfast unless you have a really relaxing day planned.

Its all that contemplation. He goes to the Himalayas for a couple of months to be at one with the universe and thinks he's all spiritually enlightened and stuff. :o

Thanks! Two right by where I live. Will talk to the boss about it :D

Meh.

Nothing for Las Vegas. All the hippy communists are up by Reno (about 7 hours drive through miles and miles of absolutely fricking nada).

And I am not driving 14 hours just for bloody lettuce.

You know they might deliver - the farm I get my stuff from is 85 miles away but they deliver it to a place right on my way home from work so people in the northtowns can still be communists too.

LOL......

Kinda narrows down the choice of produce when one's surrounded by desert. Unless you're partial to the 1200 or so species of cactus.