CSA Day at the Winter Market was terrific!  I picked up some information about the local CSA’s on the Seacoast and have posted the information on the Victory Garden bulletin board.

Brookford Farm was selling their own delicious cottage cheese and one of my friends convinced me to try some of their Jerusalem artichokes too.  Brookford Farm is a dairy AND a farm.  I wonder if anyone in the Victory Garden has grown these “sun chokes?” There was so much beautiful, local food; I am always encouraged when I meet the passionate farmers who grow and produce it.  Do I sound like a broken record going on and on about Winter Market?  I suppose so, but I’m so grateful we have all this abundance right here in New Hampshire.

(A moment of gratitude right now, please.  Thank you.)

Every time I get on my food security soap box, someone will ask me “Have you seen the movie ‘Food, Inc.?'” or “Have you read (insert food book du jour here)?” and I will have to say “No.”  I do not remember where or when I learned that our grocery stores have only a three-day supply of food on hand or that the United States has become a net-importer of food.  I do know there are lots of books, web sites, blogs, and Tee Vee shows about “survival” and I don’t have any plans to add to such apocalyptic noise in our little corner of the internet.  I just think it’s cool to shake the hand of the farmer who raised the cow which made the milk I’m having for breakfast.  I also think it’s an amazing thing to plant a tiny little seed in the ground and watch it grow into a spreading cucumber plant which flowers and then finally produces a bunch of cucumbers.  Depending on the type of seed planted, I might be able to save one of the hundreds of seeds in just a single cucumber and then plant that one tiny seed to start the cycle all over again.

Just in case you happen to drop by your garden, please check out the information I posted about Community Sponsored Agriculture (CSA).  It’s a fun way to eat more local food all year round and sleep just a little more soundly at night.