Organic produce anyone? This week’s road trip took us to visit Jessica and her dad Dave at Lunar Rhythms farm.

Jessica runs a CSA produce box program near Oshawa (or is it Whitby?). This is her second season of providing winter vegetables to her customers. She gave us a tour of her greenhouse that has beautiful spinach and other leafy veggies. It was beautifully warm inside the greenhouse – it probably helped that it was a sunny day – but it was so nice to see leafy veggies growing in the dirt in mid-February. That night we had a delicious fresh organic spinach salad. Delish!

I also purchased some organic garlic which most of will go into my next batch of infused olive oil! I’m so excited as nothing compares to local organic garlic. Yummmmm.

Sam got to take a walk around and met Penny and Star their two dogs as well as her first meeting with some chickens – not much interest and an almost nose touch with a BIG cow. It was pretty funny – the beautiful friendly cow was interested but Sam was to say the least a curious but rather shy! Definitely one of those times you wished you had the camera ready! Oh well, maybe next time!

Jessica answered lots of questions that I had. Nothing like talking directly to a true expert when you are trying to get educated on what is involved in growing organic and in facilitating a CSA produce box program. Hopefully we will be able to find a way to economically provide this to our customer as well at some time. It definitely would be great to be able to off our customers healthy, affordable, delicious fruits and vegetables to  complement the healthy delicious meats on their plates!

 B.