After blogging about it, planning to do it, putting it off, forgetting to do it, neglecting to do it, etc, we finally - FINALLY - got our act together and sent our check to the nice people at Full Belly Farms. We’re now proud, satiated members of Full Belly Farms - a local CSA. I owe it all to my old friend Jen who’s flickr page and blog are chock full of hunger-inducing shots of fresh food and strive to impress upon readers the importance of locally and sustainably grown food. Jenn takes the sort of food photos I dream about taking. Jealous!

Anyway - this is our second CSA box. Last week, I had to use google and a flickr tag search to identify all the goods we picked up. This week, everything in the box is more familiar, even though we don’t exactly know what to do with it all. As I type, the smell of roasted vegetables is filling our apartment. Red and yellow potatoes, green garlic, several kinds of squash and winter root vegetables. Some fresh rosemary from our porch - the only thing out there that hasn’t succumbed to frost and improper drainage. It’s probably the simplest meal we’ll eat all week, but it will probably be the best too.

All that for just $17 a week. Good nutrition. Good for the environment. Good for easing liberal guilt in a far more meaningful way than “carbon offsets.” [wink] Pretty much good all around. It forces us out of our culinary box and into theirs. You should join.