Becky and I have always been big fans of the various Farmers’ Markets around Omaha; I’m not a huge veggie person, but actual fresh produce definitely tastes better than the stuff trucked in from wherever that they sell in the grocery store.

This year, Becky decided to join the Tomāto Tomäto CSA (Community Supported Agriculture group). Basically, you sign up at the beginning of the year to buy a year’s worth of produce and pay in advance.  The advantage of this to the farmers is that it provides base demand for certain crops that might not otherwise be economical to grow; The advantage to the consumer is that you get a pretty decent discount over the Farmers’ Market price (We’re not through the entire year yet, but I’d bet on around 50%), but you’re committed to buying whatever’s in the bag on any given week.

In that way, the CSA is a great way to try new fruits and veggies.  This particular CSA program also includes a fresh loaf of bread each week from Great Harvest and either a block of cheese or a dozen fresh eggs from one of the farms. We’re not usually huge egg-eaters, but we’re finding a variety of ways to use them up.

Some of the other produce takes a bit more creativity, though… Earlier this week, we decided to try Beet-Fries (made like Baked Potato Fries). In the end, they tasted basically like the potato version (which is mostly salt, ketchup and mustard) and stained your fingers red.  Needless to say, I’m not a big fan of beets.

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