Our local CSA

We were so excited today to stop by our local CSA (community supported agriculture) and pick up our first share of the season! Kyla is proudly showing it off, along with the pink egg she dyed yesterday at the Creehan's easter party :-)
This is our very first year being part of a CSA, and for us it is Poplar Ridge Farm about 5 miles away from us in Charlotte, NC. I have wanted to do something like this for years! Some CSA's have membership fees where you pay once a year for produce for your whole family, and then receive a share each week of whatever is growing at the time.

Pete is doing a photography barter with our CSA, so we're able to exchange photography for fresh food! Can't get much better than that :-) We're super excited. The eggs above were delicous...and so were the portobello mushrooms. The apples were probably the sweetest I've ever tasted. I don't think this was just in my head...it truely was very fresh food!

You can click on the CSA link above and it will take you to localharvest.org where you can find the CSA closest to you!

Do you ever wonder where all your stuff comes from and where it all goes? This 20 minute, interactive movie, The Story of Stuff, explains it all in a very thought-provoking manner. We found it from viewing one of our friend's blogs. You can watch this movie in 4 minute segments or all it once.

Pete and I both felt much more content with the things we have after viewing this! But that is only one of the many thoughts we had after watching.

And in the words of our friend Ben, "If you can't stand listening to some 'tree-hugger' talk about 'the environment' then this video is definitely not for you... Oh wait, yes it is. You live on this planet too."