{"id":673,"date":"2007-11-04T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=673"},"modified":"2007-11-04T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T12:01:36","slug":"we-rediscover-local-organic-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/04\/we-rediscover-local-organic-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"We rediscover local organic veggies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/1855350842\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2154\/1855350842_324b709bda.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Mini vegbox (Nene River Farms)\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things we&#8217;ve missed being away from Morris is our weekly (in the summer) box of organic veggies from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easybeanfarm.com\/\">Easy Bean Farm<\/a>.  There are a lot more organics at the big grocery stores here than in Morris, but the Aldi across the road is pretty low-end and doesn&#8217;t have much of a fruit\/veg selection, regardless of its organic status.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, then, we attended a Green Fair at the Colchester Arts Centre last weekend where we met some fine folks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivernene.co.uk\/\">River Nene Organic Farm<\/a>.  It took me several questions to sort out a few things that were really different than back home, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They&#8217;re still delivering, and in fact deliver year round.  (Most CSA&#8217;s in Minnesota would have packed it in by now and won&#8217;t start delivering again until May\/June.)  The local veggies in the winter will, not surprisingly, lean towards to the root variety, but they&#8217;re still harvesting things like the cabbage family (brassicas) all winter.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to subscribe or make a long-term commitment.  Back home CSAs tend to be run on a subscription\/Co-op model.  Here, though, they post what the boxes will contain on Friday, and we have until Tuesday evening to decide what we want, if anything.  Very cool.<\/li>\n<li>They do home delivery (dead convenient since we don&#8217;t have a car).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once I&#8217;d manage to dust off and re-arrange my pre- and mis-conceptions, it was clearly looking very spiffy and we signed up for a mini vegbox, which arrived Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This photo has samples of everything in the box (leeks, a swede, onions, potatoes, and mushrooms) except the carrots, which I didn&#8217;t feel like unwrapping and pose in the box.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of all this organic goodness, WeatherGirl&#8217;s back in soup production mode, and yesterday made a nice thick soup out of the swede and a delicious leek and potato soup.  And Sub-Evil Boy even spiffed up one of his frozen pizzas with some nice organic mushrooms.  Nmmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things we&#8217;ve missed being away from Morris is our weekly (in the summer) box of organic veggies from Easy Bean Farm. There are a lot more organics at the big grocery stores here than in Morris, but the Aldi across the road is pretty low-end and doesn&#8217;t have much of a fruit\/veg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/04\/we-rediscover-local-organic-veggies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We rediscover local organic veggies!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[25,27,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-aR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":365,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/01\/ah-to-come-home-to-fresh-corn\/","url_meta":{"origin":673,"position":0},"title":"Ah, to come home to fresh corn&#8230;","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"1 Aug 06","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's share of veggies from Easy Bean contained the first corn of the season and some lovely little tomatoes, and I just finished shucking and trimming the four wonderful looking ears using the nifty ulu knife that my folks bought us last year while they were in Alaska. 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