On Thursday, I went to Harrodsburg, about thirty minutes away. Twice. In a row. Morgan and I are part of a vegetable co-op and Morgan is on a pick-up rotation which means every certain number of weeks, it’s her turn to go pick up all the boxes of veggies in Harrodsburg for all the families and individuals in Wilmore who are a part of this co-op. I had time free, so I decided to go with Morgan to Harrodsburg and we made it all the way there before realizing Morgan had forgotten the empty boxes she’s supposed to swap out for the full ones. Which meant we drove all the way back to Wilmore, picked up the boxes, and then went back to Harrodsburg. Fortunately, this part of Kentucky is stunningly beautiful at this time of the year. And for a Northwesterner to call someplace stunning, that means something. Kentucky is beautiful in a different way from the Northwest, but it is green and full of trees and I love it. Well, the scenic piece of it, anyway.
Through this co-op adventure, I am learning a lot about vegetables. We’re getting vegetables I’ve never cooked with and some that I’ve never even heard of or seen. I was not aware that carrots could come in any variety besides orange, but apparently you can grow them in white and purple, too. Not sure if they can be grown in any other color. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a naturally grown onion, straight from the earth to me and I was strangely excited to learn that green onions are in fact just the tops of regular onions and that when the onions grow to be the normal size of an onion, the green parts are huge! And then there is kohlrabi. Ever heard of kohlrabi? It is, I later read, a vegetable that is a bit of a mix between a turnip and cabbage, which means it has more of the look of a turnip with the taste of a cabbage. It’s a fascinating piece of food to figure out. I’ll end here with a picture.
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