Adventures in Cooking Our CSA Share: Dirt on the Cutting Board

We are making vegetable soup today, inspired by all the produce in our CSA box: garlic, onions, carrots, green beans, zucchini, yellow squash, corn. But no tomatoes! We had one in the box but Sis said it couldn't go into the soup. Fine with me. So, we spent part of the morning cleaning, shucking, snapping, cutting, and otherwise prepping all the vegetables. And there was dirt everywhere, especially from the garlic bulbs, which seem to be dirt magnets. The onion, too. Funny, supermarket produce never really has dirt on it. It was odd to see so much dirt, even though that's the way it's supposed to be. And even though we washed everything, the little bits of dirt seemed to get everywhere, including all over my new cutting board--I had to wipe it down more than once. But, I figure it's good clean dirt, better than the veggies at the store, which have no signs of actually being grown in the ground.