First Co-op Purchase

Last week, I discovered that Orlando has a food co-op. Apparently, it's been in existence for almost two years, but I had given up looking several years ago. I placed my order online Tuesday from this week's selection. To make it easy, they have three basket sizes that you can order as a "Season's Selection." Small will feed a household of 1-2, Medium 2-4 and Large 4-6. You can also manually select your food from the available items. I picked the small basket for $20 as a test. In addition, I bought a one pound bag of French green lentils, since I've seen several recipes I wanted to try and Publix didn't seem to carry them.
Picking up this afternoon was very simple. I chose to pick up from their downtown location. They also have two other locations. Needless to say, I am extremely pleased with the quantity and variety of produce I picked up. A bundle of multi-colored kale, lettuce, two small cucumbers, five tangerines, an onion, two apples, a grapefruit, two oranges and a carton of cherry tomatoes. The produce should last at least a week and I'll post more later and the quality of the food.
You can order from their website at homegrowncoop.org. Also, for an additonal charge, they will do home delivery.

Pottery Class 2

Pots two and three. I decided to return to basics with the flat sided actual bowl and it turned out pretty decent. Still a little lopsided, but definitely looking better. Unfortunately, with the other one, I had made it really cool looking, but it had too much clay on the sides. In order to reduce the width, the instructor changed the bowl completely. When I tried to recreate the bowl as I liked it, the sides collapsed. Noticing a trend here? I'll post a sketch of what I want a bowl to look like in a few days.

Pottery Class 1

Here's my first bowl attempt, after drying for a week. I tried to do too much, too early. In other words, my vision outmatched my skill. I tried to make the walls to thin and too tall so it collapsed in one spot. After that, I intentionally collapsed a couple other places and voila! A flower shape! Anyway, I think it will make a nice decorative piece, perhaps to put colorful flower buds or rocks in it.