Longtime CSA Member Kit Gordon recounts picking up her CSA share with her daughter.

“It was always a fun thing to do, because we would either ride our bikes, or she would be on the trail bike, typically, because it’s a bit of a hill coming back, or we’d hike, and we’d each have a backpack, and we’d come down and put all our things carefully in the backpack and start heading back. We’d always get hungry or tired or whatever on the way back, and we’d always stop and then start rummaging through to see what we had to eat. I remember just peeling open the corn right there on the trail.

I was getting a double share,  which sometimes a double share would be two watermelons. 

This one time it was one gigantic watermelon, and it was so big and so heavy I couldn’t even get my arms around it. I’m walking home on this trail and I’m thinking, I can’t make it’s too big and too heavy! I thought, What if I just leave it here? What would happen? So it was a long way home carrying a gigantic watermelon, and that’s when I started reading the list of what might be coming before I decided to walk to get my vegetables!”