The first time we picked up our CSA this year we had a horrible surprise: bugs. We’d gone through our normal lettuce-washing routine with the salad spinner, and it looked fine, but when I pulled the lid off the spinner the next morning, it was covered. Green ones, black ones, spiders—gah! Even after repeated washings […]

Tuesday is our CSA pickup night. If you haven’t heard of it before, CSA stands for community supported agriculture. It’s when people buy shares in a farmer’s crop. Local is the new organic, and CSAs are the most local you can get (other than having your own garden, of course). We tried it for the […]