Until the backyard harvest...

I am getting vegetables from my local CSA. 

For a bargain investment of circa $300 in Conuco, an upstate New York farm run by a farmer of color, I get a box of vegetables once every two weeks through October. Being away two Saturdays ago, I missed my first box and it went to good use at a food pantry. 

Today, I managed to get down to the Magnolia Tree Earth Center."It's very green today," said CSA adminstrator Lauren Melodia as she packed my box under a mural of Hattie Carthan, a Bed-Stuy tree champion and environmentalist from back in the day (b. 1901, d.1984). 

My monochromatic box included kale, broccoli, bok choi, kohlrabi (!? must google later) and sunflower sprouts.