PEI CSA

Today I walked down the road 500 metres and picked raspberries at the West River U-Pick. It's not a large U-pick by any means, but the raspberries were plentiful and tasty. I was asked to use the green pint boxes that you normally find raspberries in at the store to do my picking, and then pour them into the bowls I had. Raspberries are $3 per box. The owner told me that the U-Pick will probably be open for another week. Now I have many raspberries and have to decide whether to preserve them or make a pie! Not bad choices.

I live in Ontario now and when I realized I had to come home to be in a wedding in late July, I called my mother for sage advice on when I should make the journey to PEI, opening with the question that would decide my traveling dates: 'When is strawberry season on the Island?' And she answered with, perhaps, the most common answer one will hear when asking about the harvest of a local food 'It depends a lot on the weather. It could be really early and might be over by mid-July. Or it could be late.

I visited Josh and Angela last week. They are planning to have a small flock of chickens in the yard of their home in Charlottetown.

Many cities in North America are changing their bye laws to allow for this. We wait to see Charlottetown's response.Before I spoke to Josh and Angela, I thought that their main reasons for doing this might be the obvious - wanting to learn how to raise their own food - check out their veggie bed - but in the last few minutes of the interview, Angela gave I think her most important reasons.