January 25th, 2012 by Becky Striepe

This has been one spooky winter, hasn’t it? Any time we have shorts weather in January here in north Georgia, it feels like things are just a bit off. That warm weather has meant we’ve had a longer growing season, though, and our baskets have been bountiful! This week’s basket is shaping up beautifully despite some rocky moments pulling the food together. The Georgia hoophouse cherry tomatoes and local spaghetti squash fell through, but Margie was able to replace them with cherry tomatoes from an organic farm in Florida and acorn squash from a farm here in Georgia.

Despite the warmer weather, we are reaching that point in the winter where the bounty starts to wane a bit, and that means leaning on our friends in neighboring states to fill out our baskets. We had to borrow a couple of veggies this week from Florida farmers, and you can be assured that as soon as our local Georgia farmers can supply us, we’ll see baskets that are 100% Georgia grown once again.

Margie and I chatted a bit about local food this morning, and for both of us it’s as much about supporting small farmers directly as it is about fresh, healthy eats. Getting goods from neighboring states when the pickin’s here are slim may up the food miles, but it still helps put our food dollars directly in the hands of farmers rather than those of a large corporation, and that’s so important in this economic climate.

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CSA, Georgia CSA, local food, seasonal cooking, seasonal food, seasonal recipes

January 11th, 2012 by Becky Striepe

I believe strongly that you get back from the universe what you put out there, and this week at Vegetable Husband was a prime example of great karma!

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Atlanta, Atlanta CSA, carrots, CSA, GA, local farms, local food

December 21st, 2011 by Becky Striepe

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to ride out to some Athens farms with Margie. When we passed that hay snowman above, I knew that we had to have a second Vegetable Husband Christmas card this year.

Our first visit was out to Mills Farm, where I got to see how Alice and Tim Mills make our corn grits and corn flower. I have to say, it blew my mind! Tim basically built the mill mechanism out of spare parts, and it mills the corn without a lick of electricity! Their donkey, Luke, runs their mill. Check out the mill in action:

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Athens, hunger, local food, Mills Farm, power of community

November 30th, 2011 by Becky Striepe

…and now for something completely different!

We tend to focus on the veggies around here, but there are other stars at Vegetable Husband besides what’s in the basket. This week, I got to chat with a couple of our newest drivers. Both of them are long-time Vegetable Husband customers who now deliver your weekly baskets. They shared a bit about why they’ve started delivering and what was local on their Thanksgiving tables!

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CSA, local food, local Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving

November 10th, 2011 by Becky Striepe

Yesterday was practically a party at Vegetable Husband HQ! A lot of the drivers are shy about me taking their photos, so Margie suggested that I swing by later on in the day, when two of my best friends in all of Atlanta were picking up their veggies for delivery. We gabbed and swapped recipes, and they let me take some pictures of our fun veggie times!

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