Vegetable Highs, Vegetable Lows. Looking Forward to Vegetable Friends!

It’s been a crazy, vegetableful week. My girlfriend and I joined the Sunnyside CSA—just one of about a hundred neighborhood-based community-supported agriculture distribution centers around New York City. This week’s box (our first!) held strawberries, arugula, green-leaf lettuce, red-leaf lettuce, baby bok choy, radishes, turnips, beets, and rhubarb.

It has been a week of highs and lows. Mostly highs, topped by rhubarb cobbler. I barely knew what rhubarb was a week ago, and now I’m a rhubarb enthusiast—evangelist, even. And all the organic, local, oh-so-fresh beets, turnips, bok choy, and strawberries from the box of surprises made me jump with healthy joy!

But today we hit the low: those “southern style” turnip greens I cooked up today will be sitting in a tupperware in the fridge (along with way too much unused lettuce) until one of us reluctantly chews them or tosses them.

While I’m simultaneously nervous and excited for our next batch of veggies, I’m definitely looking forward to meeting our neighbor who we met through the listserv and agreed to split the share with. Sharing these surprise boxes of vegetables does seem like it would forge some kind of unbreakable bond.