A Belated Week 2 Post

Week 2 & 3 was a blur. Ellen and I moved for the second time in a month to our long-term apartment on campus. It's official; we're going to be house parents to 20 teenage boys starting in late August. We're not sure if we're ready for that adventure yet though, so we're enjoying the quiet, summer days on campus before the kids return.

The blog posts paused for a fortnight or so because of the long, humid move that took two days of storage/ old apartment box transfer and then a week full of unpacking. I was also charged with painting my own apartment the week before (I'm working on the school's paint crew in the summer to make a little extra cash), so needless to say, Ellen and I are sufficiently tired from the past two weeks of nesting. This is our first weekend in the new place & enough boxes are unpacked to take a minute to catch up on our farm share adventures.

Above, you'll see that two Tuesday's ago (the painting week & four days before the actual move), I trekked out to the farm on a bit of a rainy late afternoon to collect our share. They had a larger pick-your-own variety this time. I was excited to take advantage of this, but I was sufficiently soggy by the time I'd finished harvesting.

Week 3's pick your own did bring us with another round of strawberries. This time, we were also allotted two pints of sugar, snap and snow peas! I brought home a handful of cilantro and dill, too.

I purchased this jar of local honey. Some of the honey comes from The Food Project honeybees & some comes from surrounding farms. It was a $9 purchase at the CSA pick-up. Totally worth it.

Once I returned home with the farm share, Ellen and I spent a long, tired Tuesday evening cleaning our fresh produce and feeling CSA fatigue. The pick-your own can take 45 min or so, so after an hour of CSA fun, you return home to wash 20 lbs of produce before bed; it can be a little bit of a struggle...

Turns out that in my late twenties, I'm an early to bed early to rise kind of girl. If only the CSA pick-ups were early morning! I'd be so much more efficient. Luckily, Ellen has the self-discipline and energy to keep us both going as we wash greens and root vegetables for 45 minutes or more.

From this week's CSA, we did manage to make a delicious salad spread along with a really hearty helping of mashed potatoes, turnips, with garlic scapes & butter (of course).

Above are some pictures of El utilizing our tiny tiny kitchen space (hoorah! for our last week in this little studio) as we whip up our mashed root veggies.

Now on to week 3, a much bigger kitchen & some friends!