Your csa! Has it started?

[joyfulheart]

If you belong to a csa, have you started getting goodies yet?

Ours started last week -- so far we've got --

romaine lettuce
green leaf lettuce
cabbage lettuce
Japanese turnips

And, there is a cutting garden ready with mustard greens and collards. Not sure what to do with either of those, though! I need to be more creative, I think!

Our family hasn't done a csa in years as we are lovers of the Seattle Farmers Market. But, this year we decided to do it. I do find it to be a lot of fun.

Happy eating!

[cristeen]

Ours is year-round. But I got my first (green) tomatoes of the season last week. I'm looking forward to when they get ripe - last year I was getting 10 lbs a week of tomatoes, but didn't really do much since I was hugely pregnant. This year I want to make ketchup.

[kallyn]

Mine's been going for three weeks. The first week I got about 5lbs of greens and the next two weeks I got about 8lbs of greens plus 2lbs of assorted other veggies. I had a different CSA last year and this one kicks its butt!!

I just had a pickup last night and I got:
yukina savoy cabbage
head lettuce (wasn't labeled, but looks like cosmopolitan lettuce)
hakurei turnips
loose mixed salad greens
collards
curly red kale
red mustard greens
garlic scapes
crinkly watercress
scallions
mint
strawberries

It took me all night to chop and wash all of it! I think my blood is going to turn into chlorophyll.

In the past two weeks we've also had radishes, nettles, parsnips, some other herbs, asparagus, and rhubarb.

[BetsyS]

We don't do a CSA, but we are active at our local farmers' market. It opened the first week of May, so 6 weeks now. I love all the goodies we get!

My new favorite (this year) use for collards is in burritos. I cook the collards in oil, with garlic and chili flakes (like any greens). Then, roast potatoes (white or sweet) and sometimes chicken. Serve flour tortillas with the collards, crunchy roast potatoes, the chicken, monterey jack cheese if you have it, a sprinkle of cilantro, raw onion, and raw jalapeno. Add hot sauce or tomatillo salsa to taste.

These are soooo good!! They are also good without the tortilla if you are out. Or on top of beans and rice (leave out the chicken) if you are eating that. Anyway you eat it--good stuff.

I'm pregnant this year, so I'm eating all the Japanese/Hakurei turnips I can get my hands on. None of them are even getting cooked. LOL. My mom grew them, my dh grew them, and I'm buying them every week (though I think last week was the last one at the farmers' market; it's too hot for them here now). I adore them cold from the fridge with salt. Yum!

[laohaire]

3 weeks for us, too - we are livin' the strawberries! It's our second year - last year we paced ourselves on strawberries but now we know better. Get 'em while the gettin's good. I plan to eat my fill.

Of course we're also eating greens (rainbow swiss chard, komatsuna, amazing heads of romaine, bok choi and spinach), radishes, salad turnips, parsnips. We also get eggs.

The thing I am looking forward to the most for next is some sort of allium. Our onion store lasted us until early May (that is, last year's onions) and garlic lasted until end of April. But now I broke down and got a couple of Videlias and some garlic at the supermarket to hold me over until they start coming in here. (As I recall, garlic scapes is next on the menu).

[sunnysandiegan]

Our CSA is year-round and we just became share-holders (with another family) this calendar year. We receive a large box every other week and split it with our friends. Our next box is tomorrow.

This is the list for tomorrow's box (subject to change):
Edited list to reflect what really arrived.
Avocado
Beets, Red, Gold, Chiogga - red for our box
Carrots
Cherries
Fennel - none
Kale
Lemons
Lettuce - romaine for our box
Oranges
Parsnips
Potatoes
Strawberries
Zucchini

Our farm grows all of the following (and it hasn't been updated for awhile, so hopefully we'll see all of these in a year's time):

Avocados
Basil
Beans, green
Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Chard
Cucumbers
Eggplant
Herbs, fresh
Kale, red
Lemons and Limes
Lettuce
Onions
Oranges
Radishes
Scallions
Spinach
Squash, summer
Squash, winter
Strawberries
Tomatoes
Turnips, white

[lactivistmama]

Ours has started!! Yum!
Yesterday we got:
Strawberries
Onions
Green Garlic
Kale
Cilantro
summer squash
Chard
Lettuce
Snap peas
Fava Beans