From time to time I'll share our family's experience as a half-shareholder in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) garden down the road.

Just as Bethany loves the veggies pouring in from her family's CSA share, so do we. This is our family's first experience with owning a CSA share and we absolutely love it! It's headed up by a wonderful woman with an immense knowledge of organic gardening -- beyond locally-produced veggies, my thumb is becoming greener.

The plan we purchased requires ten hours of work in the garden. So a couple nights ago I took the kids over for an hour of weeding. I worked up a nice sweat weeding between two endless rows of tomato plants. I showed my son what okra, sweet potato and green pepper plants look like. He ran the perimeter of the two-acre garden and I didn't need to worry about traffic.

At the end of the weeding session, our CSA host had a special surprise. The sugar snap peas were ready to harvest and we were able to pick and take home the biggest, juiciest sugar snaps I've ever tasted. They were like candy off the vine. Here's a gallery of photos of our evening at a CSA -- hope your vegetable garden is yielding plenty this summer!

CSA Share(click thumbnails to view gallery)