terriloui

We’ve had a CSA (community supported agriculture) vegetable share with Bellair Farm for three years and reupped for 2015. Can’t compliment Farmer Jaime, owner Cynnie and the crew enough. Besides the abundant fields and ability to choose what you take home in your weekly bag, there are pick your own fields with sunflowers or hot peppers, you can hang out and bring a picnic lunch on Saturdays, hike the walking trails, play with the bunnies and just be on the farm. Our challenge is in eating enough veggies! Always leftovers from each week’s share. At the season-end potluck supper in late October, they provided even more abundance… and with that additional bag, my fridge actually exploded.

Sifting through the vegetable carnage, I know that pickling and canning really should be something I do, but don’t. However, I enjoy fermenting. I made my first pseudo kimchi with gorgeous daikon radishes, carrots and everything but the kitchen sink. My husband commented on the stench, not knowing it was fermenting beautifully and soon to be plated with dinners ahead.

Our other CSA experience (community supported art) is with The Bridge in Charlottesville. In 2013, I was one of four artists invited to produce works for this inaugural offering. Here are images of some of the 50 bookbags I produced from all recycled materials. They’ve expanded the CSA program in 2014 with six local artists and shares are still available.