Like many of us who love fresh veggies, I’m not  a person who plants, groom and picks them. I did that when the kids were young, but those days are over. I joined a CSA — community supported agriculture a nice acronym for buying a share of a farmer’s fresh crops. In short, I get fresh veggies every week. I buy from Gordon Post, thanks to a suggestion from Marnie Mead. We pick up veggies every Thursday.

We do get things that I don’t recognize, and I already warned my family they will be eating it — all of it. But the stuff with yellow flowers last week — we weren’t sure if you eat the flowers or the leaves. My daring son, Dr. Eckert, washed off the leaves, tasted them and said “Lettuce or something like that.”

I didn’t find that one too tasty, but the peas mmmmm. And the lettuce and beets — if you’ve never had fresh beets — you are missing something. I can’t wait to see what we get today. All our foodie writers at the Erie Times-News have recipes. It will be fresh veggies on the Eckert and Parker plates tonight.

Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.