Summer Harvest

This is the first year Rick and I have participated in a CSA (community support agriculture) co-op. We're about 6 weeks into it, and I am LOVING the variety that comes to us each week from a family farm in Trenton, OH (about 15 minutes from here). This week we got 4 dozen ears of sweet corn, several zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, okra, onion, Italian green beans, rainbow chard and yellow squash. Thankfully, we're splitting the plethora of produce with our neighbor Amy. I don't know how two people and a baby could manage to eat all of this in one week.

Asher is a fan of the tomato & basil

sauce we made from this week's bounty.

I spent most of my free time (aka Asher's nap time) chopping zucchini for the three loaves of bread, making dill pickles, and pureeing the yellow squash. Rick was a champ and helped me cut almost 2 dozen ears of corn tonight, which are now in our freezer for future use. And tomorrow, Amy and I will try our hands at making dill pickles. I get a big kick out of seeing all the ways we can use everyday vegetables, and set them aside for future use. What's even more fun is looking at your dinner table, naming the various ingredients and the person you got them from.

Amy and I made 18 quarts of dill and bread & butter pickles.