Metrowest CSA season has officially commenced! We are in the green:
I took photos of the entire share, but are splitting down the middle for each. Pictured, roughly left to right (thought difficult to pick out where one ends and the next begins):
- a fistful of beet greens
- 8 oz mixed salad greens
- fistful of turnip greens
- 10 Easter egg radishes (so named for their colourful variety)
- 2 heads lettuce (not sure on the type)
- 8 oz arugula
- 8 oz bok choy
- and in the very center there, baby turnips, which we already went over last Friday.
Beside the enjoyment of delightfully fresh veggies, one of my intentions with this stuff is to get an idea of its worth. Our half share costs about $14.20 for each weekly pickup from June through October, assuming we continue to harvest through then.
So as it turns out, baby turnips are priceless (in the literal, you can’t buy them way), and you have to buy the beet to get the beet greens, and radishes don’t come with tops. But my estimate is around $18.19 for similar amounts of conventionally-grown (the farm is organic, you see) veggies at Stop & Shop. S&S didn’t have enough of an organic variety to make a reliable estimate. So my return this week was about -$5.11. This is still VERY early season, and I’m quite optimistic for the rest of it!
The end!