As a foodie I push myself to appreciate as many aspects of food culture as I can. For the last few months I’ve wanted to better understand where my food comes from. Well, I did something about it recently. It started with shopping at farmer’s markets and after deciding farmer’s market produce was too expensive and time consuming it culminated in signing up for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. The program I chose to join was the one offered by the Tierra Miguel Foundation. I chose Tierra Miguel’s CSA program because it’s in Southern California, organic, and non-profit. Yes. I am as much a Green foodie as I am a cutthroat capitalist. (No. Those things are not mutually exclusive.)
After some initial confusion last week… THIS week we received our first Tierra Miguel box of produce. My intent with future blog posts is to share our experience with cooking with CSA produce. I know I will find it fun to cook within the limits of what each week’s box of produce contains. Maybe you’ll find it fun too.
This week’s box included:
- carrots
- beets
- parsnips
- chard
- strawberries
- oregano
- zucchini
Oye! This could be challenging. 
If you have any recipe suggestion please share them via comments!
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