Windy Meadow Farms CSA

We started getting a weekly delivery of produce from Windy Meadow Farms last year; it's from June through November. You have the option of picking up your 10-16 lbs of weekly fruits and vegetables from a close local distribution point, or, for $5 more per week, having it delivered to your door each Saturday. I opted for the pickup, because it's more fun to run into others who are as pleased each week as I was. You can, if you like, head over to the Windy Meadow web site before Thursday each week and select which items you want and don't want, and they will tailor your delivery to your needs. But I only chose to do that during eggplant season -- otherwise, each week it was a surprise, like Christmas, to see what I'd be cooking and preserving each week. I devised a lot of new recipes, and my kids got introduced to some new vegetables that we might not have purchased on our own from the grocery store. It was all much fresher, and at a much lower price, than you'd get from the grocery store. I was so pleased that I even wrote about Windy Meadow Farms in my blog. Here is what I wrote on August 17:

"Today, My $10 bought me a LARGE head of romaine lettuce, EIGHT beefsteak tomatoes (six ripe and two green, to ripen), eleven Roma tomatoes for sauce, a bag of 30 cherry tomatoes, six ears of corn, about 2.5 pounds of potatoes, a big eggplant, a summer squash, three cucumbers, four green peppers, a red pepper, and three sweet peppers. Better than a partridge in a pear tree!"

--Debra Ross, Publisher, KidsOutAndAbout.com