{"id":7516,"date":"2011-07-17T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=7516"},"modified":"2011-12-16T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:36:34","slug":"365-days-of-bliss-farm-fresh-veggies-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/365-days-of-bliss-farm-fresh-veggies-july-17\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Bliss: Farm Fresh Veggies (July 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! Sorry this is so late today! I had trouble logging in to the blog and shop this morning and couldn’t get back into my computer until now! Sorry!<\/p>\n

Hello Sweet Shoppers \u263a It’s Dana here \ud83d\ude42 Happy Sunday! I hope you are all enjoying your summer (for those of you living in the Northern Hemispere)! Today, I wanted to talk about one of my favorite things about my summer this year \u2013 FRESH VEGETABLES! I do NOT have a green thumb, nor do I particularly enjoy gardening, so this year, I joined two CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Farms, which means that each week I get a share of vegetables produced by the respective farm that week. One of the farms is about 5 minutes away from where I live \u2013 and I drive to it each Tuesday afternoon to collect my vegetables and fruit. The other CSA<\/a> is a delivery arrangement, and I have a box of vegetables, eggs and fruit delivered to my doorstep every 5 days. Check out these pictures of some of the goodies I\u2019ve been getting each week!<\/p>\n

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Here is a link<\/a> to a website that I used to find my local CSA (Dover Farm<\/a>). You should check and see if there is anything local to you!<\/p>\n

I love heading out to Dover Farm<\/a> each week \u2013 I get to speak to the two farmers first hand, see the chickens running around (my girls loved this) and pick my own fresh fruit (this week the raspberries are ready \u2013 yum!)<\/p>\n

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I actually joined my other CSA, Harvest Delivery<\/a>, through Groupon \u2013 and it\u2019s been great. It\u2019s so fun to get a box of goodies delivered every few days. And, they are going to start fresh fish and lobster delivery soon as well \u2013 I can\u2019t wait!<\/p>\n

The hardest part about getting all these vegetables is actually knowing what to do with them! LOL!<\/p>\n

I do a LOT of salads, just because I love them! Plus, it\u2019s fun to add in new things each week based on what is delivered. I don\u2019t usually add raw beets to my salads, but it\u2019s really yummy! Also \u2013 I LOVE LOVE LOVE to juice! I have had a juicer for a while, but it wasn\u2019t the best for juicing leafy greens \u2013 so I recently purchased a new juicer that works well with all the Kale I\u2019ve been getting. I love making my own juices, using a variety of green vegetables and a usually some pineapple, apple and\/or pear. Even my kids will try the juice (although I admit they don\u2019t drink a lot \u2013 haha)<\/p>\n

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I also like trying out new recipes \u2013 both of my CSA\u2019s put recipes on their blogs, which is usually where I start looking for new ideas each week. Last week I really enjoyed the Beet and Parsley Salad<\/a> listed here – so, so easy and so good! We didn\u2019t finish it all the first night, and I thought it was really good the next day too! I also had a lot of squash, so I made this Summer-Squash Soup with Parsley Mint Pistou<\/a> (from epicurious). Soup and Salad is one of my favorite meals, so this was great! I also love grilling vegetables \u2013 so I\u2019ll throw various veggies on the grill almost every night – they are all good!<\/p>\n

I have big plans to scrap my summer CSA adventures \u2013 and luckily there are some kits here at SSD to help \u263a Have you all bought these yet? I know that I\u2019ll be getting them VERY soon!
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So tell me \u2013 what are some of your favorite recipes using fresh veggies? Have you ever joined a CSA? Do you grow your own veggies? Have you scrapped about it? Let me know here in the comments!<\/p>\n

And have a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone! Sorry this is so late today! I had trouble logging in to the blog and shop this morning and couldn’t get back into my computer until now! Sorry! Hello Sweet Shoppers \u263a It’s Dana here \ud83d\ude42 Happy Sunday! I hope you are all enjoying your summer (for those of you living in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}