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Hi everyone!

I love the surprise factor each Saturday…

The “Abundant Harvest” box is lined in paper and when uncovered it’s like finding treasure.

Love.

Here’s what’s in the box!

Valencia Oranges

Lemons

Clip Top Carrots

Baby Artichokes

2 kinds of Lettuce

Potatoes

Spinach

Sage

Garlic

Strawberries

Sugar Snap Peas

Lot’s and lot’s of fresh organic spinach… can you say pesto?

oooo! juicing carrots… mmm!

Sage… on freshly homemade pizza … ooooh! boy!

What a nice surprise… strawberries  & lemons!!!

um, strawberry lemonade anyone?

First, I’m off to whip up a green smoothie .

Oh yeah, before I forget to mention it…

we were invited to a farm camp out through our CSA organization in a few weekends… it’s definitely something we’d like to do and take advantage of.

The hubby and I think it would be an awesome opportunity to meet some of the farmers who are harvesting the foods we eat and visit their farm. totally cool!!!

Right now at this very moment, the hub is tiling the out building floor— I’m super giddy about it… because it’s one step closer to our “unschooling” (homeschool) reality. wOOt!

We will be planting more later this evening… we picked up a bed full of compost from the local quarry today. I’m ready to get down and dirty… check out some of our latest harvests here!

Gotta run, or Baby C might take over the house.

Enjoy your weekend!

What are you up to?

{Meatless Monday} Fantastic Falafel Recipe & more…

Hello dear readers!

Hope you had a great weekend. Mine was somewhat uneventful but I did manage to get some things done around the home. It seems like I’ve been decluttering a lot lately. Getting out what doesn’t fit in to my lifestyle or even my well being! I live in a small home so I declutter often.

In a sense I’ve also decluttered my eating habits. For 2010, as mentioned previously I plan to eat more raw foods and lean towards a vegan diet. I’m not going to set myself up for failure and plan to be quite flexible. I was a veggie for many years but had no idea what I know now. I definitely wasn’t getting the proper nutrition my body deserved nor was I getting the right amount of protein. Yikes!

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Our trip to the Ananda Marga Organic Peach Farm

On Sunday, the hub Baby C and I drove out to the Ananda Marga Organic Farm in Lake Hughes, Ca. Which is not a far drive from our home whatsoever! The Ananda Marga Organic Farm was part of our local farmer’s market. Last weekend was the final market until next June.

I really liked the opportunity of having fresh locally grown produce at my disposal on Saturday mornings. This was the first year our town did anything like this and I thought it was successful. It was nice chatting with the farmer’s and their wives and getting to know the person who is growing the very food on your plate. It’s actually quite interesting to have a conversation with some of farmers. Especially, the ones who are growing their produce organically.

I’m sad the market was over but happy  I was able to meet and greet the local farmers each Saturday! After doing my normal chitchatting I found out the Ananda Marga Farm is open year round to visitors. I had no idea! Finding this out made my entire year. I’ve known about the farm for quite some time but did not know you could buy produce from them directly. I thought you had to be part of the CSA.

Which was definitely one of our goals this year- to get on board with Community Supported Agriculture through Abundant Harvest Organics. I’m still working on it though and visiting the Ananda Marga Farm has given me some inspiration to get something started ASAP. I haven’t really found anyone receptive enough to take on half of the load with us- but still working to find others interested in sharing a box. Keep your fingers crossed for us because it’s the next best thing to growing your own!

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