I’m really excited for my first Growing Washington CSA box of the season! I love this program! The choices are awesome and the farm store is also fantastic this season.

I signed up for the Local Choice Mini box, which means I get to pick 6 items each week. In reality, it gets you 6 credits to use each week. A few more expensive items are 2 credits (like cheese, usually). The credits end up being around $3.50 each ($21.50 per week). I also signed up for a weekly pasta share, which costs $6 per week extra and I get a pound of fresh pasta every week from Bellingham Pasta Company (rotating between spaghetti, linguine, fettuccine, fussily, penne, spinach, whole wheat, and red pepper).

This week, I used my credits on:

• Shiitake mushrooms
• beets (the greens are going to be good too!)
• rainbow chard
•  sugar snap peas
• fava beans
• apricots

The pasta this week is penne rigate.

I couldn’t resist ordering some extras from the farm store, as well.

• Smokey Vollkornbrot bread ( sourdough rye) $6
  
• grass-fed, bone-in beef short ribs (two ~1lb packages for $6.83/lb) $15
  
• Cirrus cheese from Mt. Townsend Creamery, a local Camembert $6
  

My grand total for this week’s box: $54