We have had quite a stretch of rain and gloomy weather, and quite frankly, I’m worried about my laundry, which has been on the clothesline since Friday. Last Friday night, I thought I would get the jump on Mother Nature by hanging the laundry, that it would have enough time to dry by the time the rain came on Saturday night. Wrong! The rain came early Saturday afternoon instead, and there hasn’t been much of a break. So on the line the laundry stays, droopy and wet, and it seems to me that there are few things more depressing than soggy laundry on a clothesline.

However, there has been a bright spot this week. We got our first CSA delivery from Kevin Leavitt, aka Farmer Kev. I’ve written about Farmer Kev before so I’ll be brief. Farmer Kev is an amazing young farmer who grows organic vegetables, which he delivers to an ever-growing number of CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) members. He started farming while he was in high school and has continued through his college years. (Kevin just finished his third year at the University of Maine at Orono.) Farmer Kev’s vegetables are beautiful, delicious, and so clean—he has a double-dip method of washing them—that they can be eaten without further washing.

As my husband, Clif, and I live in the woods, there is not much we can grow here. I plant a few tomatoes—Juliet, which does well with limited sun—as well as some cucumbers. Herbs in pots do fairly well, too. But that’s not much, really, when it comes to fresh vegetables, and thank goodness for Farmer Kev, who delivers—that’s right, delivers—fresh vegetables to us all summer long. What a bounty!

This time of year, we get greens and radishes. Luckily, I am nuts about greens, and radishes aren’t too bad, either. To my way of thinking, there is no better lunch than a wrap filled with lots of greens and then sprinkled with other tidbits to add flavor. Those tidbits could be radishes, olives, pasta, leftover fish, cheese, tuna fish, hummus. Well, you get the point.

Last night, after marveling over the wonderful greens delivered smartly in a wooden box, I set to work snipping spinach, lettuce, and beet greens for our dinner salad. There was a baby beet that went into the salads as well as some of Farmer Kev’s radishes.

What a salad! Rain, rain, go away, and stay away for at least a few days. (We don’t want it to go away entirely. Then there would be a drought, which brings about its own set of problems.) But as a consolation, we have salad made with Farmer Kev’s veggies, and that is a consolation indeed.