This book by Barbara Kingsolver is fantastic! I'm learning a lot of about harvesting your own food. Harvesting can mean picking green beans, tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables or it can even mean killing your chickens and turkeys for meat.
Mostly this book has made me want to know more about where the food in my local King Soopers is coming from. A lot of our fruit comes from California, but what about the beef, chicken and eggs? The book has also made me think that we definitely need to support our local farms, thus our local economy.
Earlier this summer, Angela told me that she has a share in a local farm where they receive fresh vegetables every week. I went online to www.localharvest.org/csa to look up the Castle Rock area. Lo and behold there are a few down this way who participate in the community supported agriculture. I've talked with Ron and we are going to do this next spring/summer as I think it's too late to sign up for this year. I'm hoping that this will in a way force me to eat different veggies than I otherwise normally wouldn't even consider. Plus we'll be supporting our local economy.
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Glad to hear you are going to join a csa--we've really loved ours. This week we got 5 tomatoes, a cucumber, an acorn squash, 2 eggplants, a couple onions, 10 carrots, 2 red bell peppers, 5 chiles, and a huge pile of purple potatoes. Still on the waiting list to read that book...
angela
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