veggies!

Well, very exciting news-- we finally got hooked up with a vegetable coop that delivers fresh local produce to us every monday. The produce has been really great so far, we've had two deliveries. Really fresh, and its fun because its a surprise what you get every week. They only collect from local farms so all the food has to be seasonal so you don't get any tomatoes around now, but you do get bok choi. We're lucky here in New Mexico though because there is a really diverse growing season-- in the south it stays warm pretty much throughout the winter. I'm excited to get on the eating seasonally/locally bandwagon. The more I read about it the more important it seems to take these small steps in the local foods direction. And its far more important than just eating organic food. When I signed up for the coop they had a little questionnaire that polled: "Would you rather purchase organic apples flown in from California, or local apples from a small farm in Albuquerque? " I thought that was an interesting question to pose to people who wanted to join their coop.