Suggestions of spring

I walked down to the square today just to go to the bank, and it was gorgeous out. Except for the snow melting everywhere, it felt like spring! I wanted to volunteer at The Food Project, but apparently that doesn't start until April. Alas...will have to wait to play in the dirt.

I picked up my meat share from Chestnut Farms this week:

• 1 leg of lamb (beautiful! I'm thinking of saving it for Easter, but it'll be tough seeing it in the freezer for that long).
• 1 chicken breast.
• 1 package of chicken legs.
• 1 package of three greek lamb sausages.
• 1 package of ground beef.
• 1 top round steak.
• 1 package of breakfast sausage.

I went to the doctor's last week to discover that my cholesterol has dropped 41 points in the past five years! I attribute this to the veggies and lean meat from the two CSAs that I participate in. It's also a lot of food, so I've significantly decreased the amount of ready-made snacks and dinners that I used to eat. Less salt, less corn syrup, less trans fat. All good things.

I'm reading a beautiful book This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chaskey. He's farmed in Cornwall, England and on the South Fork of Long Island at a CSA. He brings together farming and his love of poetry in a thoughtful, topic-based book. He does not go through the seasons, he isn't providing how to's. He paints pictures of various crops, farmers, CSA members, animals, whatever has moved him in his life as a farmer. The romance of the farm.