CSA week 1

I joined a CSA with Lazy Eight Stock Farm in Paint Lick, KY last week. Today I picked up my first box. It contained:

week #7 csa share contents

• GREEN CURLY KALE
• RED RUSSIAN KALE (reg. shares only)
• SWISS CHARD
• SUMMER SQUASH
• ZUCCHINI (reg. shares only)
• BABY BEETS

I also bought new potatoes, onions, (from a wonderful couple that has a farm in Waco...the name of their farm has escaped me) a raspberry bush (Allison)  and some home baked pastries (Thank you Allison and Clementines Bake Shop!) Then I went into Berea College Farm Store and bought the rest of the blueberries (4 half pints) and some beef. YUM! 

So I went home and decided to spend the day in the kitchen. I made

-blueberry banana whole wheat pancakes

-zucchini bread

-potato salad

-mayo from scratch

-kale chips

-beet/beet greens/swiss chard/apple/carrot juice with my juicer. 

I am also going to make some overnight oats with blueberries and peaches (I pulled them out of the deep freezer from last years harvest here at my farm). 

CSA share $27

Potatoes & Onions $6 

Berea College blueberries and Beef $ 32.70

Pastries from Clementines Bake Shop $6

Allison's Hand Pie $2 raspberry bush $5 and lemonade $2 

Some of this food will feed us dinner tonight and I will have potato salad for lunch this week. The pancakes and zucchini bread will feed the 5 of us for a day or two.  

For now the rest of our food comes from WalMart. We spend around $170-$200 + to feed two teenage boys, a tween girl, my husband and I. I am trying to figure out how to feed our entire family of 5 for a week on just local food. I will have to be creative, and I will have to plan every meal ahead of time. We have eggs from our chickens, and food from our garden is slowly growing. I work full time in the summer which makes it really really hard to grow as much food as I want to, but I am trying. I also have meat chickens  coming in July. One of our bantams hatched out 11 chicks and I plan to butcher all of them and turn them into soup or something else yummy. Eight years into farm life and I am still learning. I am always trying, I am always reading and I am always tired. But if I can do it for one week, then why not two? Three? Why not all the time? I am trying. I will find a way.