Chestnut Farms, Hardwick MA

Chestnut Farms

P.O. Box 545; 404 Turkey Street

Hardwick MA 01037

www.chestnutfarms.org

Time to meet our meat again! We spent the day out at Chestnut Farms today, to see where the animals we get in our meat CSA share live. We saw the Thanksgiving turkeys gobbling around, although I thought they sounded like barking dogs this year, for some reason. Maybe it was the heritage breed? Or maybe it was just me.

We got to hold baby chicks, which Talia thought was the best thing she had ever done and kept running back to hold them again.

It was a gorgeous day for running outside in the fields.

Road trip to Virginia

I was lucky enough recently to be able to visit my friend, Brijin, from college who is now living in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is an amazing gardener (this terrible picture doesn't do her gardens justice), so I'm glad I was able to visit during harvest season while things were growing like crazy. While I love CSAs, you just can't duplicate the experience of eating a cherry tomato or sugarsnap pea straight off the vine in your own (or a friend's) garden. Luckily, I grew both in my small, but reasonably successful backyard garden this year. Next year I'm going to try adding beets and kale, two of my absolute favorite vegetables.