We have bought a 1/2 share in our local organic farmers Community Shared Agriculture system, and we’ve really been enjoying it so far.  Our pick up is Wednesday and last night we got a huge share.  Beets, onions, potatoes, zucchini, broccoli and some romaine.

Now all of this is good, I recognize those vegetables…the problem comes when we get veggies and we have no clue what they are.  Obviously I need more veggie variety in my life!

One of my very favourite things about this is washing the veggies…the amount of grit and dirt that come off of it is crazy!  It makes me wonder about all those rows and rows of perfectly clean veggies at the grocery store.  How on earth do they get them so clean?  Considering how many nooks and crannies there are for dirt to hide out how do they get it out??  Any ideas?  In my bizarre little mind I have visions of large cleaning assembly lines where they blow off the dirt with and air hose, then dunk them in big bins of chlorinated water, and then blast them with a high pressure hose PSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTT  (that’s the sound it makes it my head).

Okay…that was random but there it is.  So I cut up our romaine (washed it first ) and put it in our new Rubbermaid Produce Saver.  The idea sounds good, but we’ll see how it works.  And just now I’m looking at the reviews on their site and I’m thinking we may have made a mistake…oh well.  If someone has used these with success…feel free to drop me a line and put me out of my misery!