For you, gardening is relaxing and rewarding. You get to take your shoes off and feel the cool soil and grass. It gets you outside the house hands in the dirt growing food.
A garden is a great place to unwind when you get home from work or on the weekends on your free time. It is also a great place for kids (and adults!) to learn about food.
Many of our CSA members come to the CSA because they love garden fresh so much but don’t quite seem to have enough time or space to grow it all themselves.
Here we are in April waiting for the snow to melt. Waiting for winter to be a distant memory. We got an unusually early first snow, way back on November 10 that just stuck and didn’t ever melt.
Six months later we just got another 8” of fresh white stuff on top of the not all the way melted winter snow pack.
My daughter says, “the trees have snow on their teeth” aka snow is covering all the trees, the spring bird songs are muted, and the mud is no longer on our boots.
One of the most common questions I get from customers, friends, family—basically anyone who ever tries our carrots—is WHY do these carrots taste so good?
The truth is our carrots just taste better, and even more so in the winter.
It is counter-intuitive, but the starches present at harvest convert into sugars over the course of the storage season.
And by March, we say “Wow! These carrots taste amazing!”
Do the greens at the grocery store this time of year NOT inspire you?
I mean between not knowing who's hands have touched them and knowing that they just don't taste fresh... it's hard to really get excited about greens from 2000 miles away.
I get you!
You and I both know that veggies fresh from a real garden, any garden, yours or mine, taste so much better than what you find at the grocery store.
“I thought it was going to be hard and complicated to make!”
Said a participant of my recent class on fermenting vegetables.
And I totally understand how she felt!
Have you ever said that about new things in general?
I know that I certainly have! Sometimes just the thought of doing a new thing can completely overwhelm me. I become convinced that it must be hard and complicated to do, even if it turns out to be really easy to do!
