The Most Veg

So, we’ve given up on having a CSA box delivered to us. Mostly we’ve done this because of the store shown here: Hakim’s market, on Woodlands Road. Why is this, you say? Why would we give up the local / organic goodness provided to us by the good folks up in Edinburgh at Grow Wild? Well, for several reasons, not least of which is that Hakim’s … has ripe vegetables, in bulk. True, we don’t end up with some of the more exotic vegetables, but we always end up leaving Hakim’s with a huge bag of fruits and veggies (and the occasional Asian condiment), and have never managed to spend more than £20. We struggle down the street with our huge bag, being very careful not to jostle anything, and we’ve spent less than half what we would have spent to have the CSA bring us half as much.

Sometimes it’s scary: what in the world would you do with a kilogram of mushrooms? Well, when they’re on sale for £1.50, you figure out something to do with them! See the yellow van, in front of Hakim’s? The other day, I walked by, and they were unloading onions from it. The entire van was filled with onions, in great, huge sacks. They’re now on sale for £3.00 or £4.00 per 10kg sack, depending on whether you want the red or the yellow. We resisted, because we don’t have anyplace to put all those onions – they’d swamp our wee little freezer, for certain.

So, although we like the idea of having veggies delivered, we’re probably just going to be stuck on Hakim’s for the next couple of years. We liked the surprise of not knowing what veggies we’d get, one week to the next … but we also like the surprise of coming home with something we discovered locally, in a quantity enough to make us happy for more than a day or two.

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