Look At This Frigin Radish

So Totally Totally Very Big And Bigger

She's caught on to our home improvement routines

She's under the impression that restaurant booths have tires, and for some reason they're always flat

She's overwhelmed by fresh produce

She's taken to back alley shady surgeries

Pizza is a good cure for peeing on the dance floor

Version 12.0 of how to make grocery shopping more insane

Farm Has No Rules

4 Seconds A Day: July 2013

Consider Community Support Started

First CSA pickup today. Glad we made it home in time to unpack and head back out for a bushel and a peck. There's that kohlrabi again! Slaw anyone?

Doing Our Best Not To Spoil

We love our new CSA, but we've unintentionally thrown out a good deal of the share since we started, be it because we don't know what to do with it or because we can't possibly eat more beet greens, our compost heap has been stocked. So tonight we decided to pull it all out, do a little online research and attempt to revitalize our ever growing backstock of garden goodness.

And then we had to punish Yuula.

The Family That Organics Together

We finally got to pickup our CSA together. Much more enjoyable for the whole family.

Yuula went for the flowers

Laura was armed

That is Heidi. It's her farm.

Measuring by the bucketful

A swift getway

A sampling of our weekly take

A Cherry Of A Day For A Festival Valley Style Day Cherry

I couldn't figure out the title...

Yay Cherry Valley Day Festival at our very own CSA! We already know how to get there! And really isn't that half the battle?. It's a lovely little affair really with some very inspiring vendors, live music and frigin delicious food. My salmon/feta burger alone was worth the tent of fungi and lichens and the woman who smelled like cat food pushing psychic teas on us. We heard some educational speakers on how to properly tend to your yard to safely lure all kinds of birds to your yard. We tasted food from a woman who gives organic cooking classes from her home. We may do that. The strawberry chili wasn't Laura's favorite but I could eat zucchini pancakes and rhubarb applesauce muffins all day. We heard some tunes from the Rambling String Band (or something like that). We bought some "ugly" soap and played in a yurt. What more can you really ask for?

Yuula listens about birds as she houses a dog

these soaps may be "ugly" but they smell not ugly

Yuula had some redecorating ideas to help boost sales... throw the soaps on the ground

quite pleasing and mood altering

long trek back to the car

look Yuula, we're gonna eat that

expending her last ounce of energy before getting back in the car

Nice day. Ran into Gary, Flora, Andy & Claire and caught up on what those guys are up to. Laura tried seltzer for the first time (not a fan). Saw my new organic farmer buddy and his son. And learned about some cool spots to visit in and around the valleys of Stroudsburg. We'll be back again.

Healthy In The House

We had our first CSA load to pick up yesterday. It was a delicious mix of lettuces, radish, beets, sugar snap peas (which were almost gone before we got home), kohlrabi, scallions, garlic vinegar, strawberries, potatoes, zucchini, sage, mint, along with some other things I failed to identify before I left. We'll figure it out.

Yuula helped fill the basket.

Now the task at hand is finding a good recipe that incorporates all of these things and then make that.

Like she's stealing stuff.

Anyone know what this is?

In Search Of The Elusive Yardsale

We set out yesterday morning to begin the time honored tradition of yardsale hunting. Bargains are out there to be found. We just needed to track them down. Last summer we got two highback basket chairs for $10, a bicycle for $15 and a stratocaster for $9. We can do better. All we had to do was spot all those colorful posters with black arrows pointing us in the right direction. Should be easy.

We got as far as our storage unit with not a sign of yard junk, so we stopped in to change the account with which they withdraw money. Errands take precedence. Then we headed out towards Delaware Water Gap because we had so much luck there before. Still nothing. We got breakfast and zig zagged thru some other backroad neighborhoods. Strike three. We decided to head out towards our CSA since today was the opening day for their buying store (which we later found out we were members of by default and had no idea) but found nothing on the way there either. We did however take in the delicious vinegars and cheeses offered by our farmers and Laura snatched up some Jurassic sized rhubarb. Someone's having pie soon.

From there we decided to go out to 611, by backroad of course, to an antique shop that we've always wanted to stop at but never had the luck of driving by when it's open. Some of these antique shop owners can be downright lazy. We weren't there for 5 minutes when there was an emergency that needed the assistance of running water and naturally, there was none to be had. Maybe another day.

Oh ad still no yardsales.

One last stop over in the commercial district, looking for work jeans and being sucked in by puppy day at the pet store. Yuula took a liking to the fish.

Looks like we're dragging that old tank out of storage.

And not a single yardsale all day.

Clearing The Tables

Getting company tonight. Wrapping up any loose ends and stray photos that got by the last couple days. Nothing news-worthy or even new-sworthy. Just blagh. We're gonna join a new CSA. That's exciting. Check it out. Got on the waiting list and made the cut. Now we're on the waiting list for a workshare. 4 hours a week, I can do that. Should be healthful. If you come up this summer I hope you like amaranth, or I hope you can tell us what to do with amaranth.

So here's what I got from the past couple days.

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