If we ever needed a reminder that our food comes from a farm, it arrived last week, falling out of a bunch of beets we brought home from our CSA...
posted originally from: AT:Kitchen
Uninvited Guest: A Baby Slug in Our Beets
Fortunately, this baby slug was a tiny one. If he had been a full-sized, we might not have been so apt to let him crawl all over our thumb. Eventually, we gently placed him on the outer windowsill and watched him crawl down the side of our building.
This is the type of surprise you get when you're cooking at home, using pesticide-free ingredients that came out of the ground that day. A good thing, we think, even if not the prettiest sight.
Anyone else found critters on their produce?
Related: Fruit Flies! What They Are and How To Get Rid of Them
(Image: Elizabeth Passarella)
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LOL. We had at least 20 green caterpillar things (some as long as an inch) in our head of broccoli last week! For some reason they made me go "eeek!" so I had the husband remove them. There are also almost always corn worms in the corn, so I always make sure to shuck it (and if necessary soak it in salt water) right after we get home, so the worms don't get to munch corn all week in the crisper!
What do folks do with their veggie bugs? I can't kill them, so I put them in the compost pail...
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The woman selling me organic lettuce at my farmers market a few weeks ago delighted in handing me the moth that was buried in the greens -- I'll be honest, I was pretty happy to see it too as it reminded me where the food was really coming from.
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