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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Day 45

CSA Box: Beets, Little Gem Lettuce, Arugula, Garlic Flower, baby Pac Choi, Squash, Zucchini, Spring Onions, Cilantro, English Peas, Strawberry goodness 


I had a big time today! We all harvested for the CSA boxes this morning in the drizzle. Cory introduced us to Borage: this pretty little blue flower that tastes like a cucumber. We sold it to a Bottleshop who concocts their own unique drink blends. You can also use it for your skin as well as potassium and when planted by tomatoes it improves flavor.
I also discovered coriander comes from cilantro's seed. Who knew? Not me. You can eat them when they're still green and get some of that cilantro flavor.
Once we packed up the boxes I offered to deliver them with Jason so I could learn our route. And what a route it was. There are eight drop off points dispersed throughout Atlanta all within a two hour span.  Drop off one is in Midtown the most complicated one because you have to go through security go to the 24th floor on the freight elevator one for the entire large building, good job architect. Then drop off at a school, two churches (one is our farmer's market) and a couple of businesses (King of Pops and H&F Bottleshop). The next two are by Emory and this was my first time driving around campus, Jason almost ran over a student and she gave the creeper van a dirty look but other than it was pretty neat. We dropped off one too many at Midtown so we bought some veggies from Publix and put them in a box. I kid, we went back and got it to deliver elsewhere and all was right in CSA land.

 Looks like I'm doing an ad for clay discs...but I'm not

When we got back we were walking back and ran into Erica so we explored around Burge and climbed up this clay shooting tower. Also there's a teepee hidden back in the woods I guess that's where Ricky sleeps or for the kids to play around in.

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