Discovering raspberries

Yesterday a friend of mine brought her toddler M over for lunch and a trip to The Food Project! We had stir fried strip steak from Chestnut Farms that I made with peppers and onions. Her daughter kept saying "chicken chicken" when she wanted more. We also had roasted veggies and some mashed butternut squash, which tasted great with just a little butter.

They brought along a toy shovel, and since I had a couple spider plants I had rooted in water, we decided to plant them. M shoveled in the dirt, protesting the plant. (She's used to a pail at the beach, and the plant seemed in the way.) But good for her to kind of see the process before the trip.

Then off to the farm for some real dirt. M was really drawn to the delicata squash, which was new for this week. She kept saying "pumpkin pumpkin!" and wouldn't leave that table.

The share included:

• One bag of salad mix.
• 1 bulb garlic
• 10 leaves of kale.
• 2 delicata squash.
• 1 sugar pumpkin (yay pumpkin pie!)
• 1 bag of mix n' match, including potatoes, beets, carrots, onions, turnips. We realized that we're very good about eating the root veggies, have some trouble with the lettuce.
• Half a pint of raspberries from the field. M had never had raspberries, and she quickly learned to pick the ripest ones from the bush and eat them immediately!
• Herbs.

There were also cornstalks for decorating. I didn't take any because I don't have a doorstep at my condo.

Fruit share:

• Apples.

M had a great time wandering through the flower patch and running through the fields. Then she was hungry (raspberries just don't cut it alone) and we went on home. It was a beautiful October day for a trip to the farm, and we're planning to do more trips during a different season. Maybe during strawberry season, since M kept calling the raspberries "strawberry!"