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the_rckAnd the bank, the post office, the library, and the frame shop are all done. Scott is dithering over the cable stuff. He was considering keeping the stuff until after Cordelia’s show airs on Sunday, but I pointed out that (a) we don’t know when he’ll have an opening in his schedule to do it again and (b) there will likely always be something that one of us really wants to see that, without cable, we’ll have to wait longer to see.
I spent some time Tuesday looking at CSA options for our area (it was kind of cat waxing, really, because I really ought to have been writing). There are a rather overwhelming number of them, and the document that profiles them is a PDF with two columns so that a lot of up and down is necessary. It’s too late for most of them for this year, but I found a few that looked interesting.
There’s one through the entire winter (November through April) that does three pounds of fresh greens a week. I don’t know that we’d eat three pounds of greens a week, and $25 a week is a lot (but on par with other CSAs at other times of year).
There’s one that might actually be worthwhile because it’s not so much a weekly thing as a punchcard with each punch costing $17 and entitling the bearer to select $20 worth of produce from what the farmer has on hand right then and to get 15% off anything additional they want to purchase.
I looked at one CSA that did meat, but I wasn’t clear whether or not we could exclude beef from what we got. I can’t see spending that much in order to get something that might kill Scott, but I’m tempted to look into it because they claim to provide buffalo which Scott can eat but which we can almost never find. That particular CSA is pretty expensive, pound for pound, but it might be worth discussing with Scott.
There’s also one that’s supplied by a group of Amish farmers. I didn’t realize we had Amish in the local area, but it’s not something I was likely to notice anyway. That one is mainly interesting because it has the option for buying other things than produce.
There were a couple of CSAs that require participants to spend a few hours a month working on the source farm. Those are not noticeably cheaper, and I think that we’re supposed to consider that work as spiritually healthy or something. (I get a little bit of a rich people playing around vibe.) One of those actually seems to be more of a co-op and expects participants to help make decisions about the farm in addition to working some hours there.
I spent some time Tuesday looking at CSA options for our area (it was kind of cat waxing, really, because I really ought to have been writing). There are a rather overwhelming number of them, and the document that profiles them is a PDF with two columns so that a lot of up and down is necessary. It’s too late for most of them for this year, but I found a few that looked interesting.
There’s one through the entire winter (November through April) that does three pounds of fresh greens a week. I don’t know that we’d eat three pounds of greens a week, and $25 a week is a lot (but on par with other CSAs at other times of year).
There’s one that might actually be worthwhile because it’s not so much a weekly thing as a punchcard with each punch costing $17 and entitling the bearer to select $20 worth of produce from what the farmer has on hand right then and to get 15% off anything additional they want to purchase.
I looked at one CSA that did meat, but I wasn’t clear whether or not we could exclude beef from what we got. I can’t see spending that much in order to get something that might kill Scott, but I’m tempted to look into it because they claim to provide buffalo which Scott can eat but which we can almost never find. That particular CSA is pretty expensive, pound for pound, but it might be worth discussing with Scott.
There’s also one that’s supplied by a group of Amish farmers. I didn’t realize we had Amish in the local area, but it’s not something I was likely to notice anyway. That one is mainly interesting because it has the option for buying other things than produce.
There were a couple of CSAs that require participants to spend a few hours a month working on the source farm. Those are not noticeably cheaper, and I think that we’re supposed to consider that work as spiritually healthy or something. (I get a little bit of a rich people playing around vibe.) One of those actually seems to be more of a co-op and expects participants to help make decisions about the farm in addition to working some hours there.
