{"id":3709,"date":"2017-08-26T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2017-08-26T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:15:05","slug":"when-your-csa-box-hands-you-lemons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=3709","title":{"rendered":"When Your CSA Box Hands You Lemons&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3710\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170826_145240.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170826_145240-338x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3710\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170826_145240-338x450.jpg 338w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170826_145240-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_20170826_145240.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s back-to-school time already. The older two boys started 4th and 2nd grade (respectively) on Wednesday. Smiles and thumbs-up all around at the end of the days, so at least we&#8217;re getting off on the right foot.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of completely neglecting my garden&#8212;the whole back yard is a wild forest now&#8212;I decided it was time to go back to getting a weekly delivery of local fruit and produce. This time around we&#8217;re going with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperfectproduce.com\/register.php?referral=157933\">Imperfect Produce<\/a>, and I was really impressed with our first box. Nectarines, plums, oranges, Asian pears, lemons, limes, garlic, a watermelon, kale, collard greens, a cucumber, green beans, zucchini, a cabbage, an eggplant, and a pint of cherry tomatoes&#8211;all organic, and all for $25! (Granted, that&#8217;s with the $10 off coupon for the first week, but <em>still<\/em>.) <\/p>\n<p>Their prices are low because they work with local farms to take the misshapen, &#8220;ugly&#8221; produce that stores don&#8217;t want. The oranges all had cosmetic blemishes, for instance, and the lemons were either smaller or bigger than you&#8217;d see on the shelf in a store. They still taste the same! I promptly made a pitcher of cucumber-mint lemonade and I&#8217;m already looking forward to tonight&#8217;s pasta with sauteed eggplant, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, basil, and goat cheese. School may have already started but dang it, it&#8217;s still summer in my kitchen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s back-to-school time already. The older two boys started 4th and 2nd grade (respectively) on Wednesday. Smiles and thumbs-up all around at the end of the days, so at least we&#8217;re getting off on the right foot. After two years of completely neglecting my garden&#8212;the whole back yard is a wild forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}