This last year, our first year with Lena, we decided to eat better as a whole family. A lot of vegetables, fruits, local meat and eggs, and less processed foods. There were two main things that we did that helped us to succeed. We cleaned out the pantry, we got rid of everything we were no longer going to eat, only leaving healthy choices to choose from. And we signed up for a local CSA box. There are a few choices for Community Supported Agriculture boxes around where we live. We chose Foggy River Farm because they farm organically, are located near where we live, offered a fair price, a wide variety of vegetables, and offer a pickup option.
The pickup option allowed us to go out to the farm once a week to grab our veggies, pick fresh: herbs, tomatoes, kale, etc., sometimes visit with baby goats, and gave Lena a chance to run around in the fresh air.
Every week we picked up a selection of vegetables and planned our meals around what we received. Sometimes we would get vegetables we had never used before (like Celery Root) but it was fun to discover and cook new foods!
I did not get a lot of pictures from our visit from the farm. We were always too busy having fun, or too busy moving on to our WND plans. The only pictures are from the last couple visits. We started getting our box in early spring and we made our last trip out to the farm the last week of October. You can see that Fall has touched the farm in these photos. Not nearly as lush and ripe as it was in Spring and Summer.
Signing up for a CSA Box this year was such a treat for us! I look forward to next spring. (Foggy River does offer a Winter CSA Box, but we are not taking part in that this time around.)
Our last sunset at Foggy River for 2014. Hope to be back next year.
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