Free choice tomatoes. Those three little words make me giddy. Let me explain. Our CSA isn't organized in your typical get-a-box-of-veggies-each-week way. Rather, you bring your bushel basket to the weekly pickup, and can fill it up with the veggies, herbs, and greens of your choice. You have a set quota (say, 5 potatoes, 1 melon, 1 handful of basil, and so forth) based on what is available, but if you really hate radishes (and let me tell you, after an unfortunate incident with a daikon radish last summer, we really hate radishes) you don't have to take them. Less food is wasted and everyone is happier (oh, how glad we are not to have to take radishes). But some weeks, there is such an abundance of something that any and all quotas are thrown out the window. You can take as much as you want. That, my friends, is free choice. Not quite as exciting when it is free choice summer squash or potatoes, but tomatoes? When the tomatoes are overflowing their crates... it's like Christmas. So

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