Well between sick kids and 4 trips to town this week, I haven't had much time for my blog. Oh well, in the beginning i was going to try to post once a day but i figured that i would not get a chance to, then i would have another thing to add to my list of "didn't get accomplished". That list seems to be getting bigger everyday and so does the self loathing. Don't get me wrong i know that trying to keep a house organized and tidy the way i want with three kids, a cat, wood dirt and working isn't an easy task but i grew up with a mother who was and still is a NEAT FREAK, so i always feel like the way my house is run is not up to par, because i can never get everything done to perfection by the end of the day. Anyway, enough of that, i want to talk about something else, that i thoroughly am enjoying right now....my CSA!!(and a lovely cup of coffee that my hubby made me)
CSA for those who may not know stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Which is something that i think is VERY important. It is a shame to me that so many farmers have lost their lifes work because we wanted cheap, conveniant food and now i believe the consequences to our actions are going to be huge!!
Do you know where your food comes from??? I do for the most part, i am sure that the cucumbers that i buy are from some gigantic facility but a canadian one i hope, because i will only buy the ones that say product of canada. I have even stopped buying fresh asparagus(which my whole family loves) because it comes from Peru, i will cave and get some when the canadian one comes out and only until the roots that i am planting this year are ready to be enjoyed, then i won't have to rely on a store for my food. That is my long term plan, to not have to rely on a store for my food, i want to rely on myself and other locals for my foods. I already buy my soap local, my chocolate local, my scones local, my beef, pork, chicken, eggs and milk local, i grow my own veggies and what i don't grow i buy from some amazing people at the local market that have dedicated themselves to this time consuming job of feeding the masses healthy local product and i am grateful to them!!
So on with my CSA. My family has purchased a full meat and a half fish CSA(There are others available, check out http://www.yffb.ca/, for more info). So every week at two different locations you can pick up your "basket". This week I picked ours up at Yarmouth Natural Foods(another fave of mine)and this week our basket contained ocean perch(sometimes called red fish) and haddock, for the fish portion and we recieved ground beef, ground pork, cross rib roast, a half chicken, pork stew meat and a dozen eggs. All from locally sourced people:)It's great!!! So check into a CSA it may be for you, or maybe think of where you're food came from the next time you are shopping and at the very least hug a farmer(just kidding, unless you know one personally).
Anyway, enough for today, I have to go clean the tub!!
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