Strawberries!

Last week's veggie share was a bit disappointing due to the cold, dry weather. But then it rained for two days and has been in the mid to high nineties. The reward? Strawberries!

Last year I didn't get a strawberry until July. I remember that when my siblings and I were little, we played a game called SimFarm. Part of the game was selling our crop on the futures market before it was released. You could make a killing if you sold your crop of oranges for $30,000, because by harvest time it was only worth $12,000. Unfortunately, the game let you sell it that high almost every time, so it was pretty easy to upgrade your farmhouse to have a swimming pool.

The point is that in commodities futures, you never know quite how everything is going to work out. What's terrible for lettuce is apparently great for strawberries. My love for strawberries is about 300 times that of my love for lettuce.

Note to self: remember to NOT wear heels to the farm. There's nothing like clomping around a strawberry patch in heels on a hot summer's day.

The haul this week:
- 1 head of lettuce
- 1/2 a bag of spinach
- 6 turnips with greens
- 2 radishes with greens
- 1/2 a pint of peas (pick your own)
- 1 pint of strawberries (pick your own)
- 1 bunch of dill
- 1 bunch of mint

The summery scent of freshly picked strawberries, dill, and mint wafted over me as I sat in Rt. 2 traffic on the way home.