This week’s share was much the same as last week’s – it will probably continue this way until the weather changes. (Come on sun – it’s almost July here!) This week I was excited to open our bag and find kale! Kale is a big favorite in my household because my husband absolutely loves Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana. We eat out more than we should, but we eat at Olive Garden very rarely. However, I found this great recipe for the soup, and with a few alterations it becomes a fantastically nourishing meal – I substitute homemade chicken bone broth or stock for bouillon cubes, whole raw milk for heavy cream, and make sure to used pastured bacon and sausage.

On my last post on CSAs, one of you mentioned in the comments that a breakdown of money-paid/food-received in my CSA share would be helpful. As I mentioned before, I didn’t do a weight/cost thing each week, which would have been particularly useful for this post. However, part of the reason I never did this was because the amount of food we received was a) above and beyond what was expected and b) easily exceeded the amount of food we would have gotten for the same dollar figure at the farmers market. That missing data aside, here’s what we’re left with for this year’s CSA share.

This week’s share was much the same as last week’s – it will probably continue this way until the weather changes. (Come on sun – it’s almost July here!) This week I was excited to open our bag and find kale! Kale is a big favorite in my household because my husband absolutely loves Olive Garden’s Zuppa Toscana. We eat out more than we should, but we eat at Olive Garden very rarely. However, I found this great recipe for the soup, and with a few alterations it becomes a fantastically nourishing meal – I substitute homemade chicken bone broth or stock for bouillon cubes, whole raw milk for heavy cream, and make sure to used pastured bacon and sausage.

On my last post on CSAs, one of you mentioned in the comments that a breakdown of money-paid/food-received in my CSA share would be helpful. As I mentioned before, I didn’t do a weight/cost thing each week, which would have been particularly useful for this post. However, part of the reason I never did this was because the amount of food we received was a) above and beyond what was expected and b) easily exceeded the amount of food we would have gotten for the same dollar figure at the farmers market. That missing data aside, here’s what we’re left with for this year’s CSA share.