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When I opened this week’s box from Local Roots Farm, look what I found:

Bunch o’ scallions
Head o’ red butter lettuce
Several tomatoes
Bag o’ mustard greens
Bunch o’ little carrots
Bunch o’ kale
Bunch o’ flat-leaf parsley
French fingerling potatoes

It’s past the end of pick-up time, and someone hasn’t shown up to get their box. Normally, I’d bring in the produce […]

When I picked up this week’s box of produce from the front porch, I got a whiff of something very green. Oh, yum, basil!
Today’s box from Local Roots Farm contained:

Big bag o’ basil (the aroma when I dumped it into the bowl was amazing)
Couple of tomatoes (the larger one was dinner tonight, with a little […]

Sadly, the Internets failed me last Sunday. We were on Vancouver Island with family, staying at Fairburn Farm and eating wonderful local food… and when I sat down to write the week’s post for One Local Summer, I couldn’t connect to the Web. Truth be told, I didn’t want to spend a lot of time […]

We arrived home this evening from several days on Vancouver Island to a box filled with:

Bunch of beets with greens
Bag of spicy salad mix
Bunch of Walla Walla sweet onions
Purslane
1/2 pound salad tomatoes
More beautiful purple potatoes
Summer squash

When I go to the Queen Anne Farmers’ Market on Thursdays, I always stop by to visit Siri and Jason of Local Roots, our CSA farm. I haven’t bought much from them at the market this year, but only because their fabulous produce shows up our front porch each week. However, I enjoy seeing what […]