the galley grows a garden

Well, sort of. I was inspired by this girl to finally get off my butt and plant something in our yard. I mean, if a 15 year-old can dedicate her summer to growing and selling produce, surely I can muster up the motivation to throw some tomato seeds in a pot. And so today I did. Not tomatoes, actually, but broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, rosemary, dill, basil (mmmmm...pesto...), and catnip, for my fine four-legged furry friends.

ooooh...fertile

my little herby soldiers

I opted to start my vegetables indoors because it's effing hot out right now, and crouching in the dirt under the blazing Texas sun in August just doesn't appeal to me right now. I hope that by the time my seedlings are ready to be transplanted the weather will have cooled just a bit.

I love the idea of a CSA, though I've never subscribed to one. To me they embody the best parts of communal food: supporting small local farms, eating ultra fresh yummy produce, and being ever-so-gently prodded into using ingredients that you may never have tried otherwise. It's really a great scenario, and Austin is chock full of CSAs. I have never subscribed because that up-front cost--sometimes as much as $650--always stings just a little too much. So, I'm starting my own personal one-family CSA. The up-front cost is minimal, and I get to grow exactly what I want.

And who knows? Maybe this time next year I'll be running my own CSA.