For the second year, M. and I are part of a CSA. We chose to join up with Driftless Organics mostly because we love great produce, but also because one of the founders/farmers/owners is a college friend of his. Josh Engel and his brother Noah have been growing colorful organic potatoes since they were young kids. It turned into a full fledged organic farm and last year they started a CSA program.

Every other Friday, I pick up a large box of farm fresh produce. We look forward to finding out what is in the next box like little kids anticipating Christmas presents. I should have been documenting each and every spread as I unpacked the boxes, but so far I have only remembered twice. Also included in our box is a newsletter which lets us in on what's going on at the farm, what's in the box, some ideas on how to use some of the more unusual items we might receive and a recipe or two.


In this box, we received 4 ears of sweet corn, lacinato kale, yellow summer squash, zucchini, carrots, potatoes, pickling cucumbers, some peppers which were brown and very tasty, white onions, mini mixed peppers, sungold cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, mixed heirloom tomatoes, and garlic.

This was our most recent box. In it was, two delicata squashes, carrots, zucchini, red potatoes, red onion, garlic, mixed mini peppers, that spicy brown pepper, very sweet red pepper, eggplant, collard greens, edamame, roma tomatoes, mixed heirloom tomatoes, cilantro, sage, and a giant head of red cabbage.

I am going to try to document what few boxes we have left. We are also hoping to purchase some post-season veggies from Josh. Last winter, we ate our weight in delicata squash and made loads of purple kraut with his amazing red cabbage. I'm hoping we can make enough kraut to last us the winter. Last year, we ran out in January or February and it was rather sad. (I'll be sure to document the kraut production when it happens).