Finals are finally done

I had to finish up a class of mine, so I'm behind on blogging. Here's highlights from last month.

I went to The Food Project to volunteer. You don't have to be a member to volunteer, and I get a lot of questions about how the CSA works. We had a productive day. Our group planted 1000 beets and then mulched the newly reorganized tea garden. I guess they are trying to control the mint, which grows mad crazy around here.

The feeling of planting a couple long rows of beets is amazing. At the beginning, you look out at the empty furrow and think, "yeah right." 90 minutes later, you have a row of 1000 beautiful little plants, which will grow up into healthy roots and leaves, both edible. Yum! Can't wait for salads and roasting.

I haven't yet posted this month's meat share, so here goes:

• 1 package of ground beef (which I just made into meatloaf).
• 1 package of ground beef patties (which we grilled).
• 1 whole chicken (which I just baked with a pecan cranberry stuffing).
  
• 1 package of sausage patties (which we brought to Mother's Day breakfast and use the farm eggs to make a sausage, asparagus, Manchego cheese egg scramble).
• 2 packages of pork cutlets (one used breaded and fried with pasta, and the other for crockpot pulled pork).
• 1 beef round sirloin tip steak (which we grilled).

I'm really looking forward to the Chestnut Farms open house in a couple weeks! And hey, it looks like they revamped their website, so take a look.

In other news, I decided to buy a new fridge before my veggie CSA starts up on Tuesday. Actually the fridge is coming on Tuesday, so five of us just had a "clean out the freezer dinner." So I'm getting ready for a new era of food storage. My fridge is 30-40 years old, I think, so I look forward to cheaper electric bills and less frozen veggies by my overzealous fridge. Yay!