Here’s the bounty from week 10 of my Sport Hill Farm CSA:

• 1 dozen ears of corn
• 1 bag of cherry tomatoes
• 1 head of cabbage
• 1 bunch of kale
• 4 red tomatoes
• 2 yellow tomatoes
• 1 cucumber
• 1 bag of onions and garlic
• 4 squash

From the outset, I put by 10 ears of corn for the winter in my very own Sport Hill/Late Bloomers niblets. There is nothing on Earth like having sweet corn in the  middle of January (with a few feet of snow outside) to improve your mood. If everyone put up some sweet corn, we could wipe out Seasonal Affective Disorder in our lifetime.

Astute observers will notice two heads of cabbage in the picture when the CSA share of the week listed one head. That’s because the eater and the farmer are truly partners. My first attempt at fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut didn’t work out. With me having a few new ideas to try out, my farmer stepped in as my full partner in this experiment and invested a head of cabbage into the second trial. Like the CSA, if it works out, she gets half of the sauerkraut. If it fails, we both get nothing (except experiential education).