On Saturday we went to the vegetable farm's annual open house. The day was beautiful and we had a great time. I thought we were going to be late but we got there right on time. They gave us a plastic bag so we could pick some things. Carlos and Titi were not very enthusiastic at the beginning but they loved it.
The couple that grows the vegetables do it throught a Community Support Agriculture system, where people like us buy shares of their crops at the beginning of the season and they give us a box with produce every other week. We are called subscribers. They also grow food for local chefs and give the surplus to food banks and other charities. They don't own the land, they lease it from a couple that used to farm there but are now retired and live in a small house in the farm. The owners could make so much money if they sold the land to house developers but they don't want their farmland to become houses. Real heroes!
We picked hot and sweet peppers, eggplants, lettuce, kolrhabi (sp?), edible flowers and carrots. We especially liked picking the carrots, they were real baby ones. I had some for dinner last night and they were very good.
People brought food for a pot-luck lunch and we enjoyed it a lot. Don loved a lemon cake and I liked everything!
