CSA veggies.

[vash]

Community Supported Agriculture. (CSA)

One of my wives coworkers quit her day job and started farming. She’s super successful. We bought into her program. (. Her husband and kids ooze health - hard work and clean food I suppose)

Organic -yup
No-till farming. I’ll google that later.

I get my first box Wednesday. Some very random veggies. Very KoombahYah.

I got the list of the first box. Some surprises. Sunflower shoots and some fancy breakfast radishes. I hope it isn’t all salad ingredients; I hope for some cooking veggies. My wok is ready to go.

I can’t grow weeds. My thumb is every color but green.

Anyone else CSA?

[flatbutt]

I did, but it was too expensive for what I was getting

[vash]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

I did, but it was too expensive for what I was getting

I’ll watch the $$

Hate to get too much useless crap. I could buy a tortoise

[RKDinOKC]

When I was a kid we had a huge garden. Instead of pesticides we sprayed soapy water, spiders, and ladybugs.
And we plowed and tilled the garden before planting. Usually preceded by spread dead veggie plants, and horse or sheep manure. During the growing season we left 1/7 of the garden unplanted to "rest" and tilled in clippings and kitchen scraps.

We didn't till the soil around the growing plants, but did hoe the weeds.

It was a lot of work.

I used to put on a tyvek suit and breather face mask then spray our fruit tress with soapy water. Before I started doing that we had neighbors stealing our fruit. I thought it was brilliant!

[berettafan]

well I thought this was gonna be a thread about broccoli on cabbage racism.

[vash]

Originally Posted by berettafan

well I thought this was gonna be a thread about broccoli on cabbage racism.

Still early.

[MBAtarga]

I thought this was going to be a racist thread about the Confederate States of America members being vegetables (brainless.)

[Seahawk]

We don't - we are strictly corn, wheat and soybeans in rotation. Commodity crops.

No-till farming is the rule not the exception in Maryland. We only till the soil every four or five years, the rest of the time we use the no-till seed planters.

There are dozens of CSA road-side vendors in my area and I used to help the local Amish/Mennonites get their crops to market in DC.

Now, DC comes here. Maryland has really embraced local markets and crop. Fun to be a part of.

[OldSpool87]

We have been with our CSA for years now. It’s a great way to get kids into vegetables. We had so much coming in that we ended up splitting a share because we ran out of ideas/time to cook/eat it all. I’m a fan and if you look at the cost of buying organic at the supermarket, you’re really not that far behind...maybe a little but not lifestyle changing.

[ledhedsymbols]

Originally Posted by vash

Community Supported Agriculture. (CSA)

One of my wives coworkers quit her day job and started farming. She’s super successful. We bought into her program. (. Her husband and kids ooze health - hard work and clean food I suppose)

Organic -yup
No-till farming. I’ll google that later.

I get my first box Wednesday. Some very random veggies. Very KoombahYah.

I got the list of the first box. Some surprises. Sunflower shoots and some fancy breakfast radishes. I hope it isn’t all salad ingredients; I hope for some cooking veggies. My wok is ready to go.

I can’t grow weeds. My thumb is every color but green.

Anyone else CSA?

A few years ago, some good friends of mine did it and we bought in. As was mentioned, it was a lot of money for not much in the way of veggies and too many odd ball veggies that I had to research what to do with. Not all bad, but I don't plan to do it again.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by vash

Anyone else CSA?

A friend did. He didn't like the lack of choice. He got whatever they grew that week. His family liked to eat what they wanted vs what the farmer had available.

[peppy]

No till farming I've seen is spray a field with roundup wait a few days and plant. Then spray something else on it at the end of the growing period (I suspect more roundup).

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by peppy

No till farming I've seen is spray a field with roundup wait a few days and plant. Then spray something else on it at the end of the growing period (I suspect more roundup).

There is organic no-till, but it's complicated, expensive, and it isn't widely practiced.

[faverymi]

I remember one summer getting like 50 lb of tomatoes within a couple of weeks.

I had to turn it into marinara sauce. And freeze it.

[HardDrive]

Originally Posted by vash

Hate to get too much useless crap. I could buy a tortoise

That is why we stopped. How many rutabagas does one need?

[vash]

Holy basket of randomness!!!

Stir fried chard and beet greens w tofu

Scrambled eggs with the garlic chives

The rest? One big ass salad.

Oh roasted beets and I’ll do something with the weird mushrooms.

[vash]

Pic

[javadog]

What is that in the plastic bag?

[vash]

Originally Posted by javadog

What is that in the plastic bag?

Sunflower shoots

[javadog]

I have no idea what they would taste like but they look pretty interesting.

I’ve never considered CSA, if it’s even available in my area. What does an installment like that cost?