Here's one thing I'm thankful for: our farm share. We're members of an incredible farm which not only supplies us with fresh organic vegetables, eggs, flowers, and other produce for much of the year, but in the last five years has provided over 900,000 pounds of food to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts.
The farm just closed for the year a few weeks ago (just ahead of a snowstorm this week, actually), but here are some pictures from this summer.
We go weekly in the summer to pick up our share, pick vegetables and flowers, and feed the chickens. I've learned to plan meals around the produce that we get from the farm, and my husband has stocked our freezer with pesto from the basil he and my son picked.
Many of the items for sale are marked with the distance the item traveled (i.e. our eggs might be labeled "10 miles" because they came from a farm 10 miles away), and there are usually cookies and 'pedal powered' corn muffins for sale. All summer we have bouquets like the one shown here.
This week the shareroom was turned into a Thanksgiving store, and I stood in line to buy organic cranberries, squash, and fifteen (yes, fifteen) farm-made pie crusts (0 miles) which we'll use for pies and quiches this winter. We'll be thankful for the farm this winter every time we take one out of the oven. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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