So. Let's talk food. Yes, this is a fashion blog. I have my outfit pictures from yesterday to share as well. But I want to talk about the awesomeness of my CSA share. I've mentioned it a few times this summer on the blog here. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. How a CSA works is, area farms sell shares of their produce and when you buy one, you get a box of goodies every week.
Back in January, my mother in law asked if we'd be willing to split a full share with them this summer. It was an investment - but we decided to take the risk and see how things would go. We also added a half dozen eggs to our order, which meant that in addition to a box of veggies each week that we split with my in-laws, we also get six farm fresh eggs. I was nervous about doing this, I didn't know if we'd actually like the items we got or would be creative enough to use them all. See, the challenge is - you don't necessarily know what you're getting each week until the day the box is delivered. Much of it depends on how the season is going and you pretty much get what you get. But, I've been very pleasantly surprised at how well we have been doing with this and I can honestly say, it's the best thing we did for ourselves this year. I look forward to each Thursday when our new goodies arrive!
Dress as skirt - Cliche Mpls
Tank top - Mossimo, Target
Jacket - LOFT, thrifted
Sandals - Merona, Target
Necklace - Charming Charlie
Bracelets - thrifted and S&D
I've also mentioned before that the Pants Monkey loves to cook and is far more creative and willing to take risks in the kitchen than I am. That may have helped us a great deal in making this CSA share work well for us. I know my in-laws have actually struggled a bit with their items. They also went out of town a couple of more times than we did this summer too. Not everything is unusual - right now in fact we're getting very normal, common veggies - tomatoes, carrots, green beans, etc. Earlier this summer is when we were getting more unusual items like kale, collards and fennel. We've managed to try every single thing though and I have loved it all. Because our growing season was late too we'll be enjoying products at least through the end of this month. I will be sad when it's over!
Follow me on Instagram (feed is at the right, otherwise my username is muppetmusic22) to see pictures of some of the delicious creations we make. I will apologize now for making you hungry if you do!
