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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 […]

When I opened our box of of produce this week, I was surprised to see stone fruit, as we’d seen no fruit trees of bearing age when we visited the farm. The peaches and nectarines in this week’s boxes aren’t from Local Roots; they’re from Acma Orchards in Quincy, WA, which has the stall next […]

Yesterday evening, Paul and I drove east, over the lake and through the ‘burbs and beyond… all the way to Local Roots Farm, where Siri, Jason and Dan were hosting a farm dinner. Before dinner, we wandered around the farm, checking out the chickens (some of whose compatriots we would later eat), talking with Dan […]

In this week’s Local Roots CSA box:

Broccoli (hooray! last week’s was really yummy)
Bunch of radishes (should I keep trying to like them, or give them to someone who already does?)
Bunch of arugula
Green onions
Head of savoy cabbage
Rainbow chard (I love chard)
Mixed salad greens (not visible, as they’re playing a supporting role for my produce […]