Numerous food clubs abound, where you can send a box of fruit to a loved one each month throughout the year. Its a great idea, but even better is a CSA membership. Send a box of locally grown, organic produce to your loved one each week during the growing season. Our CSA here in Colorado, the Grant Family Farm, is fantabulous, we have the option us weekly flowers, eggs, whole grain bread, fruits, veggies, milk and grass-fed meat.
You can find a CSA in your area by searching on Local Harvest. Its wise to research your CSA because as CSA member you are buying a share of the farm, if the harvest is good, your weekly produce box will be overflowing, if the harvest is poor, your weekly box will reflect this as well.
What I love about my produce boxes: the taste of fresh carrots, the beautiful color of orange beets and surprise veggies that I must learn how to serve and cook.
Spices:
Bart SpicesOrganic Fair Trade spices. Minimal packaging, nice prices. A variety of spices, pastes and other good ingredients from around the world
Every cook loves their spices, every green cook loves their organic spices!
The Bart website has interesting catalog of spices, but also a spice guide where you can can learn the history and use of spices.
Cinnamon:
The cinnamon tree is a small evergreen tree of the laurel family and is native to Sri Lanka. Cinnamon trees are harvested by repeatedly cutting the tree to ground level in order to form more roots. These shoots are stripped of their bark which is left to dry. As it dries the bark curls into quills.
Cinnamon has a long history. It is mentioned in the bible and was reportedly imported to Egypt as long ago as 2000 years. The Romans brought cinnamon to Europe, but it was the Portuguese who made cinnamon popular in Europe when they colonized Sri Lanka in the 1600’s.
Cinnamon is used in savoury dishes in Middle Eastern and Asian cusines, but can also be used in sweet dishes such as cakes and biscuits.
Cinnamon has a delicate fragrance, and the flavour is warm, sweet, fresh and aromatic
Cinnamon has a delicate fragrance, and the flavour is warm, sweet, fresh and aromatic
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