A Directory of CSAs Around Boulder

What a nice thing to think about in the middle of winter - signing up for this year's CSA (community supported agriculture) options. Somebody (looks like kudos to Joe Kovack) really did their homework at the Daily Camera, producing this terrific directory of Boulder County farms offering CSAs, through which you pick up the farm's selection of whatever produce is at its peak on a regular basis. The directory is excellent, with pricing, contact name, phone, pickup points, etc. Now's evidently the time to move, and I note that my favorite Cure Organic Farm has been so successful, their veggie CSA is already sold out for 2011. I really admire people who embrace the CSA approach - they must be knowledgeable, creative, and flexible in their cooking to deal with the regular arrival of a veggie box, the contents of which are outside their control. (Either that or they waste a lot of veggies, terrible thought.) I'm too much of a pre-planner to go that route, but just the thought of it is giving me warm, fuzzy feelings about the Farmers' Market and my favorite farm stands reopening in the spring. The Boulder Farmers' Market should open the first Saturday in April, and since we're heading toward the middle of February now, that really isn't very long, folks.