First Week Musings

Hello all,

Well, as I am writing this I am sitting at a picnic table, sun shining on my face, an iced passion tea from the Local Harvest drink stand & a blueberry and lemon muffin in front of me. I am here, at Local Harvest. It’s happening!

Let’s wind back for a second. This morning was smooth, I woke up, baby was sleeping in a bit so I snuck away and left the husband in charge for the morning. He has branded Tuesdays as, 'Tuesdays Boys Day'. He organized and set up his van for me to take out perfectly the night before, so all I had to was literally turn the key in the ignition and I was off.

The ride out was easy, listening to an Elton John CD, and my first stop was The Rookie Blooms flower stand. There they were, four beautiful fresh bouquets with the label ‘locally fed’ on them. Yippee! That’s me! I had a quick and embarrassing moment when I closed the van door on some branches of their huge weeping willow while someone in a ruby red Tesla watched, but alas, we got the flowers and were onto our second stop for eggs. 

My welcome to Windberry Farms was warm, we packed up the eggs together, and the farmer mentioned that her hens that lay the blue/green eggs were being a bit lazy as of late, but that she was getting new hens in for October and she was confident on their colourful egg laying abilities. So stay tuned for those, though this weeks looked just wonderful to me. 

From Windberry Farms, I headed back out onto the highway and took exit 116 to Local Harvest. There I perused the shelves, what unique local products they have. One that stood out to me was organic hazelnuts covered in milk chocolate from a local producer. I'm going to have to grab myself some of those next week... 

I got news that the Harvest Boxes were ready, and we loaded them into the van, I grabbed the bread, some milk for myself, and I was headed back to the shore. 

From there, I divvied up the big Harvest Boxes into smaller Combo Boxes for those customers, took some photos, and then headed to the pick-up location. 

There I was greeted by family, friends & new faces. It made my vegetable loving heart so happy to see everyone's eyes light up when they saw the bounty. Gorgeous flowers, rainbow eggs, fresh sourdough, watermelon, plums, shishito peppers, big heads of romaine and broccoli, huge garlic, bell peppers, bags of green beans, radishes, carrots and potatoes! The list goes on and on. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you for being part of Locally Fed's first week, I have such hope in my heart for this to turn into something wonderful that benefits our North Shore community, supports local farms, and brings us all a bit closer to our place in the world. 

To me, food is connection, food is community, and food is communion. 

 

Big Love, 

Sev & Locally Fed