In the Strawberry Patch

This summer, we decided to join a CSA (community supported agriculture) with a group from church. The quaint farm is in Elsah, Illinois and is operated by a hard working couple not too much older than ourselves. (She's pregnant too and due in August! Talk about a hard working momma! Just like the Ugandan women...) We bought a "half share" of the chemical -free produce, costing about $10 a week, lasting May- November. So far, we've enjoyed delicious fresh strawberries, sugar snap peas, radishes, beets, romaine, spinach, bok choy, kale, swiss chard, onion and probably other stuff I'm forgetting! It's been good for us to be stretched a bit and eat some veggies that we normally wouldn't buy-like radishes for instance!

David, Blaise and I enjoyed seeing the farm on our first week of pick up (we're rotating pick up w/our friends)-and much to my delight we got to pick strawberries! This was my first time berry picking-David used to go as a boy with his Gma. Anyway, Blaise LOVED sitting in the field and sucking on the strawberries! I think the bright color makes them especially attractive.

The Farm, Three Rivers, was recently featured in the Post Dispatch. You can read more about it here.

Blaise loved the baby chicks & kept trying to grab them. Next time it's our turn for pick up, I look forward to seeing the pigs!