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Just Roots CSA Pickup #2: Two Weeks Makes a Big Difference
- Bob Benenson
- May 26
- 1 min read
Urban Farm is Greening Up Fast as the Growing Season Accelerates
Just Roots is an urban farming operation with growing spaces in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and in the south suburb of Sauk Village. I recently started a subscription with their community-supported agriculture (CSA) program, which helps provide resources to expand access to healthy, hyper-local produce to residents in surrounding communities who face food insecurity.
I joined their CSA because I've known and respected the non-profit for some time and because I know they produce a bounty of beautiful food in their small space. The bonus is that my on-site CSA pickups every other Saturday give me a window on what's growing at any particular time during the growing season.
The grounds were still pretty bare when I made my first pickup on May 10. But this time of year, a couple of weeks can make a big difference. Witness these near-perfect strawberry plants that were just about to bear fruit on May 24.
Here is some more photographic evidence that spring is really popping on the little urban farm.
Here's my very generous haul from CSA #2: pea shoots, dill, basil, rhubarb, green onions, Napa cabbage, sunflower microgreens, kale, and spinach.
Want to get your own close-up look at Just Roots' farms? Click the button to learn about its open house events at the Chicago farm on Saturday, June 7 and at the Sauk Village farm on June 14.
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