I’m always happy for winter to end, but it’s even more joyous when I know it’s the end of winter farm share living. Don’t get me wrong. I love getting a farm share, but it’s not easy to resist the temptation of fresh veggies from elsewhere. Those pretty red tomatoes that don’t taste as good…

Winter Farm Share Week 5 was supposed to last until Christmas since we’re on a two week pick-up schedule until the end of the season. That’s a bit harder to figure with some things like eggs and baking. But we landed perfect by buying two half gallons of milk. We dined out several times so…

We enjoyed our Winter Farm Share Week 4 plus Thanksgiving, so this post covers the what, the how and photos! I planned all the food we’d need for ourselves, to share at potlucks, as well as the food fest for Thanksgiving around both shares. There wasn’t time to take pictures of the Thanksgiving share which…

Although Winter Farm Share Week 3 brings us many delights, it’s the tart apples bursting with flavor that excite me. Many winter share weeks we receive a different variety of apple and I can’t wait to taste each one. We aren’t always told the names so I called these speckled apples because they’re greenish yellow…

Winter Farm Share Week 2 surprised me with a huge rack of Pork spareribs. We couldn’t figure out how to split them for the two families so mom took them home to her freezer. Getting together and roasting them for one of our card playing nights sounds good. I think I have some sauce here…

Winter Farm Share began the first week of November with a gorgeous array of vegetables and a whole chicken. We elected to get the Omnivore share this winter. Last year we played with the Vegetarian Pilot program from Fresh Fork Market. We’ve been living on a Vegan or Vegetarian farm share for over a year…