For those of you who were following what we were receiving in our CSA share each week, I am truly sorry that I couldn’t be more consistent with pictures and menus. I have here photos for the share weeks numbering 20, 21 & 22. I missed picking up week 19th’s crate and my camera was missing in action for weeks 23 & 24. I hope to do much better with this next season. We did get some turnips and homemade sourkraut in the last two weeks that were fantastic!
No time for words, but here are the last two weeks in picture form!
If you have questions about what anything is, please leave your questions in the comments.
In all my years and as a vegan, I never would have thought that for the last two or so years, I could be found in the kitchen every 45 to 90 days with 15 to 30 pounds of ground raw meat…stuffing it all into little canning & jelly jars to be placed in the freezer! Oh the things we do for the ones we love…even the four-legged ones that we love!
Every month & a half or so, I drag out the big plastic blue bowl and the blender. Into the blender goes 2 pounds of chicken hearts, water, some nori & nutritional yeast. Into the bowl goes another 2 pounds of un-blended chicken hearts, ground chicken (bones, skin & liver), ground pheasant, ground salmon (skin & bones), ground mutton, ground duck, a little rabbit, occasionally some ground goat and the contents of the blender once it is all blended — we switched from mainly rabbit to mainly chicken, because our convalescing cat has a hard time breaking down rabbit protein. All this then gets mixed together, portioned out and frozen. I love our two cats and want to give them what is best, not to mention closer to being species correct than dried grains & animal byproducts.
We got things from last week’s crate (15th CSA), but we got them late and it was Elijah’s birthday, so pictures and reporting just didn’t happen.
Today’s crate:
5 Tomatoes
1 Pink Tomato
11 Roma-esqu Tomatoes
5 Green Zebra Stripped Heirloom Tomatoes
2 heads Garlic
1 Jalapeno
3 Apples (not sure what kind yet)
1 sm. head Lettuce
1 sm. bunch Kale
1 sm. bunch Cilantro
1 Yellow Squash
1 Zucchini Squash
1 little baby Spaghetti Squash
1 sm. Sweet Dumpling Squash (I think!!)
8 ears of Corn
1 med. bg. Carrots
1 pt. Various ‘Little’ Tomatoes
Playing catch up here with our CSA posts!
This is the crate for September 11th:
9 ears of Corn
9 Tomatoes
5 Roma Tomatoes
2 Green Zebra Stripped Heirloom Tomatoes
1 pnt. Plum Tomatoes
1 Yellow Squash
1 Zucchini Squash
2 Red Italia Sweet Peppers (one got snatched for dinner before the picture was taken)
1 med. bunch Kale
1 med. bg. Green Beans
1 bunch Parsley
1 qt. Apple Cider (couldn’t wait to drink some until after the picture)
In our crate this past Thursday:
1 lrg. & 2 sm. heads of Red Leaf Lettuce (some of the darkest stuff I’ve ever seen!)
1 sm. bunch Basil
1 pd. Green Beans
1 sm. Watermelon
1 pnt. Cherry Tomatoes
6 Tomatoes
5 Roma Tomatoes
5 Pink Tomatoes
1 huge Zucchini Squash
1 gigantic Green Bell Pepper
1 lg. Red Italia Pepper
8 ears Sweet Corn
Corn so sweet, you can eat it without cooking it! I’m loving my little guy’s grubby paint stained hands holding this pristine ear of corn and just munching away!
In our crate this week:
11 Tomatoes
5 Green Heirloom Tomatoes
1 pt. Cherry Tomatoes
1 Hot Pepper (of some kind…Jalapeño)
2 Green Bell Peppers
1 Red Bell Pepper
Lg. bunch Basil
2 sm. heads Green Leaf Lettuce
Sm. bg. Beets (about 1 1/2 pints…haven’t actually counted them yet)
Sm. Spaghetti Squash
Sm. Watermelon
2 Onions
*bonus: I gathered about 3 pints of Roma Tomatoes from our front yard today and another pint or two back on Tuesday.
"Do you ever wonder who the leader is? Do you ever stop and think that you could stop following and start leading your own family?" - Valerie Fitzenreiter