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Another reason I like our CSA.
Mar. 26th, 2004 10:56 amOne of the owners writes a chatty article with each delivery and I particularly enjoyed this week's.
By Andy Griffin
You're in Luck
Imagine what life must have been like in the early spring for our peasant ancestors. (Those of you descended from royalty or with roots in the carefree tropics just bear with me for a minute, please.) The days would be getting longer just as everybody's tempers were getting shorter from being cooped up in a hut around a smoky hearth for too long. Sure, their root cellars would have once been crammed with beets and turnips and their larders stuffed with salted meats, pickles, and dried fruits but all that would be nearly gone by the end of March. People's bodies would be craving fresh greens and vitamins. Yes, spring was a time of love and flowers and renewal but any crops left overwintered in the field would be flowering themselves and unfit to eat. Hunger was never very far away in the springtime.
Now look at what Mariquita Farm has on the menu down at the farmer's market this week. We have an almost perfect display of what a hardworking peasant family could hope to eat for dinner on a cool spring evening in the dark ages. Everybody would be hungry, too, after all the effort it had taken to get the meal to the table.
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By Andy Griffin
You're in Luck
Imagine what life must have been like in the early spring for our peasant ancestors. (Those of you descended from royalty or with roots in the carefree tropics just bear with me for a minute, please.) The days would be getting longer just as everybody's tempers were getting shorter from being cooped up in a hut around a smoky hearth for too long. Sure, their root cellars would have once been crammed with beets and turnips and their larders stuffed with salted meats, pickles, and dried fruits but all that would be nearly gone by the end of March. People's bodies would be craving fresh greens and vitamins. Yes, spring was a time of love and flowers and renewal but any crops left overwintered in the field would be flowering themselves and unfit to eat. Hunger was never very far away in the springtime.
Now look at what Mariquita Farm has on the menu down at the farmer's market this week. We have an almost perfect display of what a hardworking peasant family could hope to eat for dinner on a cool spring evening in the dark ages. Everybody would be hungry, too, after all the effort it had taken to get the meal to the table.
( Read more... )
