Farm Fresh!

Our CSA finally started! CSA stands for "Community Supported Agriculture" and basically, it's a farm share. So we bought a half-share (which is supposedly ideal for 2 adults) and each week from mid-June to October I go pick up our share of whatever is ripe and ready that week. Our farm share is through Titus Farms and we've bought from them at the regular Saturday Farmer's market before (their corn is the best!). Week one, we got a big bin of strawberries (not as good as Lucero, but still good), a bag of fresh picked salad greens, some basil and some garlic scapes. I had to do a little bit of research on the scapes (pictured) but basically, it's a green shoot of the garlic plant that eventually straightens out and becomes the tip of the garlic bulbs we buy. Seems like it's just mild garlic - to add a bit of flavor anywhere you want some garlicky taste. I made some garlic hummus which is quite good and will probably do a garlic scape pesto with the rest. It's so nice to have fresh fruit & veggies from the farm (rather than packed in celophane from the supermarket, which is what we ate all winter) and also nice to support a small, local farm. Our farm share includes 2 visits to the farm if we want. . . now that should be interesting!