Grant Farms CSA

We would absolutely do the egg share again, but next year we will try a different C.S.A. for the veggie and fruit shares. Vegetable shares had some excellent stuff, especially the greens and the leeks. The huge disappointments were the tomatoes and the sweet corn, which were generally of poor quality. Tomatoes were packed so that any ripe ones were crushed and had to be composted. We ate a lot of fried green tomatoes, which I can grow on my own. The cherry tomatoes were nice, and perhaps that is the way to go.

Fruit shares had some real highlights, especially the pie cherries and the cherry wine, but it was not of a great variety, and the P.R. regarding that issue could have been better handled. In the same newsletter that told us we would not get a fruit share that week, there was an article about people needed to help pick raspberries. There were no melons, which would presumably be one way to avoid crop losses due to bloom freeze. There were no grapes. Things like that. Ultimately, we just can't eat that many apples. This is an organization well worth supporting, but we will spread our C.S.A. cash someplace else next year.