For January, February, and March the local farmer's market is once a month.
Today was the day!
The weather has been so mild up until this week that there were still things like radishes and lettuce (hoop/green house grown though). I'll use some of the radicchio for a salad with oranges.
In the garden I still have celery growing in my little hoop house. I used some of it on top of my lunch today.
The recipe I followed (more closely than usual) was one for "Sticky cauliflower with cashews," from The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson. I've been wanting to try it for quite awhile and will definitely make it again.
I mention going to the farmer's market frequently, that I try to choose local as much as possible. It's important to me for many reasons, but mostly because it is a way I can participate in my local economy. To be clear, this isn't about valuing local over global, but about valuing both. And this brings me back to my current reading...
I am only about half way through Rebecca Solnit's book A Paradise Built in Hell, but would say that a major take away is about the importance of building community and of knowing your neighbors. Ideally before a disaster hits, but definitely afterwards.
(For those who have read Parable of the Sower, consider how Lauren keeps building communities.)
This bit from Solnit's book has me thinking:
The religious language of awakening suggests we are ordinarily sleepers, unaware of each other and of our true circumstances and selves. Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful effort keeps us awake."
Staying awake...staying curious, noticing, being present, participating when we can.
Those things seem like something we can do, something that I think many of us are already doing.
That gives me hope.